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Because it suggests that our mental representation of language includes things grammar theory has been ignoring for decades.

Jessica Mary Bradley currently receives funding from the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust in collaboration with Wellcome. Abigail Parrish does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But even though adults of all ages can do well in acquiring a new language, ...

In addition to vocabulary, successful communication relies on word arrangement and sentence structure. The way you arrange your sentences will greatly impact the clarity, tone and meaning of your ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Ever stared blankly at your screen, fingers hovering over the keyboard, wondering if you’re about to commit a major faux pas by sending a German email? Whether you’re reaching out to a potential ...

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In ...

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Sean Combs made it official Monday, filing a two-page notice of appeal confirming that he’s challenging both his conviction on his two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and his ...

Abstract: Natural language inference (NLI) task requires an agent to determine the semantic relation between a premise sentence ( p) and a hypothesis sentence ( h), which demands sufficient ...