When it comes to using “big data” to analyze the patterns of society, the conversation inevitably turns to social media. Yet the world’s news media actually offers larger and richer insights into ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that sperm whale “codas” (short sequences of clicks) possess a structural complexity that ...

New research reveals that sperm whales may use complex, human-like language structures in their communication, unveiling a ...

A new study led by Dr. Andrea Nini at The University of Manchester has found that a grammar-based approach to language ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

When we speak, our sentences emerge as a flowing stream of sound. Unless we are really annoyed, We. Don’t. Speak. One. Word. At. A. Time. But this property of speech is not how language itself is ...