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

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

Scientists reveal why certain word sounds feel pleasant and stick in memory, uncovering a deep link between phonemes, beauty, ...

From the sharp vowels of the Northern Cities to the drawl of the Deep South, the nasal twang of the Upper Midwest, the fast-paced chatter of New York City, and the smooth, flattened tones of the West ...

A study from Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences revisits a long-standing idea in language science that ...

Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Bioquant, INF267, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Faculty of Medicine, Joint Research Centre for Computational ...

Abstract: An automatic speech recognition (ASR) technique may be set up to forecast the pronunciation of textual identifiers (such as song names) based on assumptions about the language or languages ...

Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning with TOI English Hack explains the real rule: it is not about letters, but ...

American and Canadian researchers studying sperm whale clicks have made a fascinating discovery recently about how the animals communicate, noting that said clicks – known as codas – bear a strong ...