Source: xAI / Grok Imagine The term “conspiracy theory” calls to mind a variety of dubious claims and controversies, like rumors about Area 51, claims that the Earth is flat, and the movement known as ...

First, we would like to state our philosophy on language and writing. We do not validate any hierarchy when it comes to language traditions. All language traditions emerge from people’s encounters ...

Concurrent decoding of acoustic detail and linguistic structure enables natural, intelligible speech synthesis from limited human cortical recordings, resolving a fundamental constraint in neural ...

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, ...

Language is a remarkable human capacity. No group of people has been found that lacks language and no other species has been found to communicate in a similar way. To elucidate what it is that ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

At a Nov. 3 faculty meeting, faculty voted unanimously to declare the Program in Linguistics an independent academic unit. The change moves the program out of the Council of the Humanities, and into ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Abstract: Currently, the prevailing approach in voice conversion (VC) involves separating clearer linguistic information from the source audio and then reconstructing it with the identity of the ...

Johns Hopkins computer scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are creating a digital language divide, amplifying the dominance of English and other commonly spoken ...

An anonymous bomb threat is phoned into a school. A lengthy manifesto inciting violence is posted online under a pseudonym. A series of texts is sent from a missing person’s phone, but the person ...