An international team from Fudan, Harvard, and Stony Brook has identified shared statistical patterns in the vocabularies of ...

Human languages are known to have grown and changed considerably over the course of history, often reflecting technological, ...

Human languages as disparate as English, Japanese, and Russian follow remarkably similar evolutionary paths, according to a ...

Researchers from Fudan, Harvard, and Stony Brook University used AI and statistical analysis to study the evolution of 22 languages, uncovering a universal statistical structure underlying their ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers – they all provide a continuous stream of information that we need to track and make sense of. Who is dating whom?

Zipf’s law, a striking statistical regularity in human language, posits that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank within a frequency-ordered list. This phenomenon, observed ...