The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic ...

In the linguistic community, that’s not an agreed-upon fact. As a human, I can get meaning out of a sentence on the page, but words on paper aren’t all I have access to. I have access to the world.

We humans concoct never-before-heard sentences with ease ... in which words that each have a specific meaning on their own can be added together to create a fuller, more meaning-rich picture ...

But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children develop reading comprehension. A new study on early language ...