“Gifted” used to be an adjective, basically used as a term for smarty-pants kids. Or, to broaden it, to describe anybody with unusually strong abilities that they were born with. Like, say, not just a ...

New research shows AI can analyze language with skills rivaling human experts, challenging long-held ideas about intelligence ...

Abstract: Learning academic content in a second language (L2) depends on how content domain, presentation modality, and linguistic complexity jointly shape cognitive and motivational states. Using a ...

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...

BLiMP is a challenge set for evaluating what language models (LMs) know about major grammatical phenomena in English. BLiMP consists of 67 sub-datasets, each containing 1000 minimal pairs isolating ...

The MA Linguistics with a Specialisation in Syntax is a research-oriented programme designed for students looking for a concentrated, advanced course in theoretical syntax, couched broadly within the ...

Linguistics invites us to explore language from a scientific perspective, including how we learn to speak first and additional languages, how languages evolve, and how humans use language to ...

Maybe you’ve seen it in your own social media feeds, or you’ve noticed a younger person saying it: “unalive.” The word, commonly used to evade content filters that ding words like “murder” or “suicide ...

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