Many scientists see evidence of language in the sounds animals put together, but they may be kidding themselves.

If Kanzi grasped syntax, that would indicate a deeper understanding of human language. So far, studies have shown that Kanzi could order symbols at a rate better than random chance, but some ...

In human language, syntax is the set of rules that creates a system capable of expressing an infinite number of meanings. “Syntax is all about providing more and more precise, refined information.

"Human language is qualitatively different because there are two things, words and syntax, working together to create this very complex system," Miyagawa says. "No other animal has a parallel ...

It’s possible that the language used by chimpanzees is some kind of precursor to how human language itself evolved. At least, that appears to be the suggestion that the researchers are making here.

As the accuracy of natural language processing (NLP) models increased over the 2010s, there was a clear sacrifice in interpretability. Effectively, the more powerful and accurate language models ...

In the book “More Than Words,” writer-educator John Warner makes the case for renewing the concept of writing as a fundamentally human activity. Large Language Model bots like ChatGPT offer ...

Linguist Shigeru Miyagawa from MIT explains, "Every population branching across the globe has human language, and all languages are related. Since the first split happened about 135,000 years ago ...

So why haven’t they evolved languages of their own? A new study suggests that great apes (specifically gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) seem to track events in the way that we do.

Songbirds known as Japanese tits communicate using human-like rules for language and can mentally picture what they’re talking about, research suggests. By Brandon Keim February 9, 2018 ...