People often seem to understand language before they have actually heard enough words to determine its structure. In everyday conversation, listeners ...

Practising a tool-using task helps people do better in a test of complex language understanding – and the benefits go the other way too. The crossover may happen because some of the same parts of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. This article is more than 2 years old. David Baker (University of ...

Metaphor is not merely a literary device but a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes how individuals conceptualise and communicate their experiences. In cognitive linguistics, research into ...

As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language ...

Have you ever typed something and thought about how to make it sound better, clearer, or more natural?These days, writing is not just about putting words together. There are smart tools that help ...