Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into sentences, creating infinite meanings.

Human language arose only once, in southern Africa, a first-of-its-kind analysis of world languages suggests. Verbal communication then spread across the globe as humans walked out of Africa ...

A new study has found that certain whale species' vocalizations adhere to two linguistic laws of efficiency seen in human language: Menzerath’s law and Zipf’s law (with Zipf's law being ...

Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication often relies on rhythmic structures and call combinations.

A humpback whale OperationCetaces All human languages follow the same pattern: The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most ...