A new model to predict how language changes over time has been developed by a statistical physicist at the University of ...

What's changing: Scientists challenge the long-held belief that sentence structure is built solely on hierarchical grammar trees. Key finding: Our brains may store and use frequent word chunks, even ...

When it comes to using “big data” to analyze the patterns of society, the conversation inevitably turns to social media. Yet the world’s news media actually offers larger and richer insights into ...

From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these neologisms—newly coined terms—gain acceptance and become part of mainstream ...

Like learning math, from simple counting to solving complex equations, language learning happens in a similar stepwise fashion, with each new step building on previous knowledge. Brown (1973) outlines ...