When it comes to using “big data” to analyze the patterns of society, the conversation inevitably turns to social media. Yet the world’s news media actually offers larger and richer insights into ...

A new study into the patterns of terrorist language could help authorities create algorithms to detect and flag extremist content online. The study by Charles Darwin University (CDU) Linguistics ...

What someone says out loud about a group of people and how they actually feel about them aren't always the same thing, but a person's true sentiments about other groups of people can be revealed by ...

AI uses a modern Large Language Model (LLM), but it doesn't simply retrieve facts from a database. Instead, it navigates a ...

When we speak, our sentences emerge as a flowing stream of sound. Unless we are really annoyed, We. Don’t. Speak. One. Word. At. A. Time. But this property of speech is not how language itself is ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

A study analyzing 40,000 stories reveals what Aristotle intuited centuries ago - narratives follow a common, predictable structure consisting of three key elements. Using computer analysis, ...

Like learning math, from simple counting to solving complex equations, language learning happens in a similar stepwise fashion, with each new step building on previous knowledge. Brown (1973) outlines ...