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

DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Two groundbreaking studies reveal that despite the vast diversity of human languages, there are deep, recurring patterns in ...

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?

My son is a wizard. He walks into the kitchen, looks at me and utters the magic words: “Can I have a cheese and tomato sandwich, please?” A few minutes later, just such a snack appears in front of him ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...