Tag: languages
Babies and Language: A Surprise Finding?
Brain and language specialist Eylem Altuntas told us last week that “Babies Learn Language Much Earlier Than We Thought.”
A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist
Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do.
Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure
The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable.
Top Five Questions on the Origin of Language — Answered!
We aren’t even sure which is the world’s oldest spoken language, though Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese have impressively long histories.
Quorum Sensing: A Clever Trick by Microbes
Robot designers are learning tricks from bacteria: how to communicate with and respond to other unseen members of a swarm.