In his landmark 1949 paper, Claude Shannon showed how simple statistical models called Markov chains could reproduce the structure of human language. By modeling how letters and words depend on one ...

Chinese official discourse has increasingly used “social governance”  to describe policies in the Uyghur region. This neutral administrative language is reshaping people's perception of repression, ...

As families face mounting barriers in education, healthcare, and child welfare, attorney and clinician Paula Yost ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential decision in Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc. v. Kurin, Inc., affirming a district court’s judgment as a matter ...

Learn how a portfolio career differs from gig work and side hustles, and why distributed mandates are reshaping authority, risk, and modern professional identity.

AI produces language without the memory, experience, or stakes of a human mind. Anti-intelligence describes language generated without a life behind it. The real shift isn’t smarter machines, it’s ...

Questions surrounding the change in language from primus inter pares (“first among equals”) to “Chair of the Council” during the recent GAFCON Council gathering prompted further clarification from ...

Speech sounds like it is made of words, but that impression has more to do with what’s in our heads than with what comes out of our mouths. In natural speech, there are no clear acoustic boundaries ...

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 ...

Most educators are familiar with the saying “All teachers are teachers of language.” Although we wholeheartedly agree, we know that not all teachers have been taught to be language teachers. Unless ...