In this one-hour activity, students gain an understanding of the nature of human communication and foster a scientific view on languages. Through class activities, games, reading, and analysis, ...

Stephen Garner (left) and Huey Kolowich (right). The two formed the basis for UniLex after returning from their missions. (Courtesy of Stephen Garner). BYU is a community with many international ties.

The pandemic was an inflection point that raised questions around the systems and processes that undergird our lives at every level. In the classroom, defining structures had to be suddenly reimagined ...

This release is also available in French, Spanish and Japanese. At a school in Managua, Nicaragua, deaf children are speaking a new language entirely their own, which nonetheless has remarkable ...

Researchers in Australia set a few robots loose on the linguistic landscape. The droids come up with random words to navigate, and even create, maps--with surprising accuracy. Eric Mack has been a ...

ST. CLOUD — Three years after creating what was thought to be the first high school-level curriculum for native Somali speakers in the state and country, Abdi Mahad is at it again — this time creating ...

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.