How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication ... insights into the intrinsic complexity of human languages." Why, then, would some languages ...

Buzz on social media is that two AIs devised their own language. Shocking? End of times? Or might be something more ...

How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication ... insights into the intrinsic complexity of human languages.” Why, then, would some ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned ...

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of ...

For over a century, presidents have pursued initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government, couching those efforts in language ... knows how to be efficient and nimble ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on.

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...