Jay Keyser’s new book, “Play It Again, Sam,” makes the case that repeated motifs enhance our experience of artistic works.

A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that.

New research shows that a grasp of grammar helps even very young children figure out when they must acquire new words.

Study finds language-processing difficulties are an indicator — more so than memory loss — of amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

Master's students Irene Terpstra ’23 and Rujul Gandhi ’22 use language to design new integrated circuits and make it understandable to robots.

An MIT student and linguistics professor spot an emerging English phrase and examine what it tells us about syntax — but questions remain.

In new research, MIT linguists explore how human language handles leaps from the here and now.

Project leaders at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab say their research could shed new light on the nature of language learning.

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

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