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 language-specific brain network can be identified even when a person is resting, listening to music, or doing a task ...

Forensic linguistic analysis of two recently released emails may shed light on who abducted the mother of Today Show ...

Language patterns could be predicted by simple laws of physics, a new study has found. A theory using ideas from physics predicts where and how dialects occur. Language patterns could be predicted by ...

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 ...

Scientists say birds organize their singing using the same mathematical formula found in human speech. The post Science ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a previously undetected structure in the birdsong of Bengalese finches ...

The simple pronoun "I" carries enormous psychological weight in ways most people never realize. Research shows that how frequently you use first-person singular pronouns reveals crucial aspects of ...