Prosodic and phonological structures form the bedrock of spoken language, orchestrating the rhythm, stress, and intonation that accompany linguistic utterances. These structures are not merely ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

The performance of natural language models such as ChatGPT is deeply impressive. The performance of another one of these models, the one called "human,"is at least as impressive. The human model ...

Humans are storytelling beings. As far as we know, no other species has the capacity for language and ability to use it in endlessly creative ways. From our earliest days, we name and describe things.