Sounds of human languages can be affected by various factors of the natural environment. One such factor is the mean annual temperature. In new research,...
In new research, scientists from the University of East Anglia and elsewhere studied 874 speakers of 29 different languages, including English, Spanish,...
In new research, Dr. Andrew Adamatzky, a computer scientist at the Unconventional Computing Laboratory of the University of the West of England, analyzed...
In a new study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, apes and monkeys were able to track relationships between sounds the same way as humans,...
Dogs are able to listen to different people saying the same word and recognize it as the same word, ignoring the differences between speakers, and can...
University of Copenhagen researcher Isabelle Augenstein and colleagues trawled through 3.5 million fiction and non-fiction books, all published in English...
Humans are born with operational language processing and memory capacities and can use at least two types of cues to segment otherwise continuous speech,...
According to new research published in the journal Behavior Research Method, tit, booty, booby, hooter and nitwit are some of the funniest words in the...
