When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry examines fictional language, ...

There are two main schools of thought: what is termed “grounded ... constitute the main ingredient of the meaning of “banana”, language is the main ingredient to bake up the meaning of ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

Language has long been studied as a set of separate components—sounds, grammar, and meaning. But as this research shows, ...

If language is not essential for thought, then what is language for ... put words close to each other so that their combined meaning is easier to understand. Kyle Mahowald, a linguist at the ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic ...

If language is the medium of thought, she reasoned, then thinking a thought and absorbing the meaning of spoken or written words should activate the same neural circuits in the brain, like two ...

It doesn’t mean someone is bad and a dancer ... The findings suggest “stronger parallels with human language than previously thought,” the authors wrote.