There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

Being a linguist—and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue ...

Ambiguous speech production is a common challenge for learners of a second language (L2), but identifying whether the problem ...

Semantic leakage occurs when a word in a prompt is later used in an LLM chat in an unsuspecting way. This can be worrisome in ...

Terms like ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘famine’ take on new, politically convenient meanings.

Thesaurus overuse is no stranger to students such as myself, who believe we must choose the most complex language in order to ...

A company named around “SEO” is now tethered to a term that no longer reflects the full breadth of modern discovery work.

Not all words are created equal – and those that sound more surprising are more likely to grab our attention and stick in our ...

Agenda-driven opinion mills, designed more to sway public opinion than serve the public, might be harder to spot if AI is used to make them sound more original and rational. So the race is on to stay ...

A recent study explores how Japanese learners of French produce ambiguous speech errors. Using a specialized assessment tool, ...

Working in the APEX Lab , led by cognitive psychologist Howard C. Nusbaum, Chinnappa is trying to decode what words and ...

This study presents a valuable advance in reconstructing naturalistic speech from intracranial ECoG data using a dual-pathway model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, ...