Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boas’s observation had swelled to mythic proportions. In a 1991 essay, British linguist Geoff Pullum called these claims a “hoax,” ...

Subtleties in the language people use may reveal physiological stress. Psychologists found that tracking certain words used by volunteers in randomly collected audio clips reflected stress-related ...

Remember the famous 30 million word gap in language exposure between the children of professional families and those on welfare, and all its attendant problems in reading and attention? How could ...

BARCELONA, Spain ― Distorted language structure may help clinicians diagnose mild depression and distinguish between the disorder and "normal sadness," new research suggests. A study of 201 ...

Researchers in brain science and language development have found that infants in the first days of their life cry in different ways depending on their parents’ language. Scientists compared recordings ...

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 ...

Early on in the evolution of artificial intelligence, researchers realized the power and possibility of machines that are able to understand the meaning and nuances of human speech. Conversation and ...