Soon after a team of engineers discovered a moth in a machine at Harvard, the word "bug" became a standard part of the programmer's lexicon. Or did it?

An excerpt from Chomsky and Moro's new book "The Secrets of Words."

Psycholinguist Giosuè Baggio sheds light on the thrilling, evolving field of neurolinguistics, where neuroscience and linguistics meet.

Older dogs in particular can distinguish between languages. Also there may be breed-specific linguistic differences

MIT associate professor Evelina Fedorenko studies the brain's language processing regions: how they arise, how they're affected by different kinds of input, and how each contributes to language comprehension.

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How to boost your odds at Wordle: Experts in linguistics and computer science break it down.

Speech is meaningful because our brains add the structure of language to the physical input of speech. This study shows that the brain uses ongoing temporal dynamics to encode syntactic structure, and that this is measurable even when the speech input is nearly physically identical yet different structures are perceived.

He combined linguistics, cognitive science and computing with the goal of "trying to understand the nature of the human mind."

Experts dove into 2,500 pages of leaked documents showing which information Google collects from websites and users

Wolfram Community forum discussion about Biden in 51 words: analytics of the speech "Soul of the Nation". Stay on top of important topics and build connections by joining Wolfram Community groups relevant to your interests.

Miriam Yevick's 1975 holographic logic suggests we need both symbols and networks to model the mind. I explore that premise by adapting Sydney Lamb's relational network notation to represent a logical structure over basins of attraction in a

MIT SHASS announced leadership changes in its anthropology, comparative media studies and writing, linguistics and philosophy, literature, music and theater arts, science, technology, and society, and women's and gender studies academic areas.

Modal logic covers such areas of human knowledge as mathematics (especially, topology and graph theory), computer science, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. In this post, we introduce the basic idea of modal logic, one of the most popular branches of mathematical logic.

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MIT Press announces shift+OPEN, a new initiative designed to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model.

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences recently welcomed new professors Sonya Atalay, Anna Huang, Elena Kempf, Matthias Michel, Jacob Moscona, Sendhil Mullainathan, Elise Newman, Oliver Rollins, and Ishani Saraf.

There's something very unusual about the shortened form of <em>usual</em>.

MIT McGovern Institute researchers make the case that language is a tool for communication, not for thought.