If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...

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