For decades, the standard technical requirement for a law student was a mastery of Westlaw and a passing familiarity with ...

Because it suggests that our mental representation of language includes things grammar theory has been ignoring for decades.

A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising."Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words ...

New research from Cornell University and Aarhus University suggests that language may rely less on complex, tree‑like grammatical structures and more on simple, linear patterns of words that can be ...

Now that we’re all out of English class, you might be asking yourself: do I still have to follow all of those strict grammar rules? The answer is “no.” We’re splitting infinitives, running amok with ...

English grammar may look easy at first. But we all make silly errors without even realising it. Most of you write or speak English with confidence. But later you realise a small mistake has flipped ...

An eggcorn is a mistaken word or phrase that makes almost as much sense as the correct version. The term eggcorn was coined by linguist Geoff Pullum in 2003 as a nod to people’s habit of mistaking the ...

Unsupervised Automatic Speech Recognition (UASR) aims to align speech signals with corresponding text without relying on annotated data. However, the unknown boundaries of speech units pose challenges ...