Mother tongue by Andrea Valentino in New Scientist 26 November 2022
We will never know how and when language emerged but we are getting closer. You’ll have heard of...
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We will never know how and when language emerged but we are getting closer. You’ll have heard of...
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The ancestors of language look to be very widespread. Researchers have been considering the sounds...
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The origins of language go back 400 million years. Recent research has established that many...
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Inner speech and consciousness are not the same thing. We are (almost) all familiar with the voice...
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Strange how we still cannot agree on the origins of language. The authors have just brought out a...
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We are learning more and more about animal communications. Recent research with chimpanzees shows...
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AI is well suited to interpreting animal communications. It is surprising that nobody thought of...
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It’s an accident that we use the alphabet. John Darnell et al published a landmark paper in 2006....
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Maybe human language is not as distinctive as previously thought. Researchers have been looking at...
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Understanding the point about understanding the point. We are all familiar with the point that...
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Everett and Chomsky bracket the debate around the beginnings of language. On the face of it, the...
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This is an excellent and succinct article on the history of ideas in the realm of how humans...
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The article spells out in some detail why we have found it so difficult to build algorithms capable of … language …
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The article reports on work presented to a recent web conference on the subject of ‘personal attacks …
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