Dependency linguistics examines the relationships between words in a sentence, focussing on how syntactic structure is determined by directed links—dependencies—between a head and its dependents. This ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...

The structure of languages may reveal more about their roots than their vocabularies do, according to a new biologically inspired linguistic technique. Studying languages can be extremely useful to ...