A study has provided evidence that young chimpanzees are capable of vocal functional flexibility; a known building block in human language development. The ability to produce sounds that can fulfil a ...

New research from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has significant implications for understanding both ...

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens ...

A new study uses deep linear networks to prove that language undergoes iterated learning to become structured and learnable.

Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the ...

How much does the evolution of human speech owe to one amino acid? The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only ...