How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication? To investigate, researchers at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, ...
Complex networks offer a robust framework for understanding language and text as emergent, multi-level systems. Using graph theory, researchers represent words, punctuation, and semantic units as ...
Language evolved as part of a uniquely human group of traits, the interdependence of which calls for an integrated approach to the study of brain function, argue Eörs Szathmáry and Szabolcs Számadó.