Comparative Language Studies investigates the structural, semantic and pragmatic similarities and differences across languages. It draws on methodologies from corpus linguistics, experimental design ...

Humans are not the only beings that can identify rules in complex language-like constructions -- monkeys and great apes can do so, too, a new study has shown. Researcher used a series of experiments ...

There are currently ∼7,000 different living human languages. The peak of language diversity may have been ∼10,000 years ago when up to 20,000 different languages might have been spoken. Languages ...