Once in a while, we run afoul of syntax. What this means is that we unknowingly break the rules of grammar, not just in the English language, but other languages as well. Syntax is defined as ‘rules ...

Human language is not a list of millions of sentences which people just have to pick from whenever they speak! Rather, we choose the words we need to put together to express concepts and ideas. There ...

A vervet can warn its fellow monkeys about an approaching predator by giving a leopard or eagle call, and everyone will take appropriate evasive action. But one vervet can’t tell another vervet, “I ...

The length of a sentence isn’t what makes it hard to understand— it’s how long you have to wait for a phrase to be completed. When you’re reading a sentence, you don’t understand it word by word, but ...

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...