Without assuming anything about meaning or trying to decode the mysterious 15th-century Voynich Manuscript, Brian Grant wrote software that analyzed the structure of its inscrutable text to see if it ...

The age at which children learn a second language can have a significant bearing on the structure of their adult brain, according to a new study. The age at which children learn a second language can ...

The structure of languages may reveal more about their roots than their vocabularies do, according to a new biologically inspired linguistic technique. Studying languages can be extremely useful to ...

The hullabaloo surrounding the publication of my most recent book, The Language Myth, in September 2014, has taken even me by surprise. The book is a rebuttal of an earlier, very famous book, The ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...