A new study reveals that wild chimpanzees combine vocal calls in structured ways to create new or more specific meanings, ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic ...

But even though we cannot decipher the text, it is still possible to analyze the hell out of it. The manuscript has been found to follow Zipf's law, a law that appears to be followed by all known ...