Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

Use 'semantic gradients' to turn vocabulary study into a shared thinking activity that explores the subtle differences ...

Several Nigerian-origin words have made the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update, reflecting the growing global influence of the nation’s language, culture and cuisine. The December 2025 ...

Objectives This paper examines the differential impact of responsive parenting and nutrition interventions on early child ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has added several Nigerian-origin words in its latest update, reflecting the growing global ...

This type of language can be either objective or subjective. Objective language includes making verifiable statements. Some ...

Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” reminiscent ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Gerard Baker proposes that “Biased Media Needs a Complete Culture Change” (Free Expression, Oct. 21). He’s half right: Journalists should amend their ways—by being honest about their biases. The ...

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.” ...

The core objective of the Smart Direction Mamba (SDM) architecture is to dynamically resolve the fixed causality problem faced by the Mamba/SSM architecture when processing natural language, while ...