Traditionally the relation between philosophy and religion has been one either of identity, as in the early Middle Ages, or of hostility, as in the Age of Reason. In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...

We know that words change all the time and over time, a process language experts describe as “semantic shift,” semantics being the field of language concerned with meaning. Even if we may not ...

Much has been said about the remarkable ability humans have to extract meaning from language. That ability is remarkable indeed. In a split second, we perceive a spoken or written word and immediately ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai ...

There is no question that my love of language is an inherited trait. My father was a lay linguist, in addition to being a teacher, writer, and public intellectual. In the last few years of his life, ...

Artificial intelligence has made extraordinary progress in processing language, vision, and even reasoning. Yet the more we rely on it, the more one truth becomes clear: AI systems don’t truly ...

There is a kind of language that carries more weight than grammar or eloquence. It is the language of gratitude. It is the ...

People who are really good at conjuring funny emojis from your phone's character sets – hilarious ones like anchors and bikinis and mugs of beer and whatever that square and cloud are (sunset?