If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Over time, we can internalize gender roles so deeply that they become engrained in the way we sit, stand, walk, talk, and gesture. There are many aspects of our body language that are gendered without ...

Second language acquisition (SLA) of aspect and tense occupies a central role in applied linguistics, as it elucidates how learners come to express temporal distinctions in a non-native tongue. This ...

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, ...

Normal and abnormal language development depends to a great degree on the nature of the infant-mother relationship. The author advances his concepts as well as those of others with respect to several ...

New research shows AI can analyze language with skills rivaling human experts, challenging long-held ideas about intelligence ...

Xijia Zhang is affiliated with the University of Alberta. Kimberly Noels works for the University of Alberta. She receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

In a nutshell • Scientists discovered that Heschl’s gyrus, not just the superior temporal gyrus as previously thought, plays a crucial role in processing speech melody. This brain region doesn’t just ...

Toronto, Canada - August 22, 2024: Popular AI virtual assistant apps on an Apple iPhone: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and Poe. For a long time, at least by AI terms, people have been ...

Hispania is the quarterly journal of the Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Hispania includes articles on pedagogy, literature, linguistics, and technology-assisted language ...