An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

Amour and Anger is the latest book of sonnets by Subodh Sarkar, translated into English from Bengali by Bappaditya Roy Biswas.

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

My work comes out of an anxious need to control time and space on a limited human scale, which is the scale of a painting, a ...

Research shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric ...

Warble duets seem linked to active territory defense. Physical fights in the wild were always preceded by warble duets. Playback experiments also showed that parrots increased warble duets when ...

AI-powered document processing automates data extraction, classification, and validation with 95-99% accuracyMarket projected ...

Children acquire language at an astounding speed: most produce their first word around their first birthday, and by 30 months of age, some can say as many as 600 words. Unfortunately, this is not the ...

Speech without enforceable consequence undermines the social contract. Trust, cooperation, and democratic deliberation all rely on the assumption that speakers are bound by what they say.

Rahul Khanna’s speaks to Firstpost’s Lachmi Deb Roy on behalf of Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna for their new collection, Abyssal. Prelude to the Lakme Fashion Week, Rahul Khanna talks about India’s ...

Thousands of marks carved into Paleolithic artifacts suggest that early modern humans were using structured symbols to communicate as far back as 40,000 years ago, a detailed analysis has found. The ...