People with a common history – often due to significant geographic or social barriers – often share genetics and language. New research finds that even a dialect can act as a barrier within a group.

We humans like to think that our language is original, but we absorb large amounts of it from others and liberally repeat and remix what we hear – just as language AIs do.

Built on recent advances in machine learning, the model predicts how well individuals will produce and comprehend sentences.

Linguistic analysis shows that activists and politicians have very different messages when it comes to the environment.

Linguists have long considered grammar to be the glue of language, and key to how children learn it. But new prose-writing AIs suggest language experience may be more important than grammar.

On its own, a new machine-learning model discovers linguistic rules that often match up with those created by human experts.

Fluent expression is not always evidence of a mind at work, but the human brain is primed to believe so. A pair of cognitive linguistics experts explain why language is not a good test of sentience.

A Stata Center wing and celebratory event mark their achievements and the next generation of linguistics research at MIT.