The year is 1921. Louisiana lawmakers ban French in classrooms, silencing the language for generations of families. Decades later, along comes Mavis Arnaud Fruge on a mission to revive the language ...

The question posed in the title of this article asks what the most powerful people are silently saying to themselves. It's a good question. What does the self-talk of powerful people sound like? As we ...

One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite their reputation ...

Brunel University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The final report of the Independent Sentencing Review has proposed the most significant reform of sentencing and ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

Mavis: One Simple Sentence is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA --With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain’s key language processing centers. The ...