Writing Systems #5 – Written vs. Spoken Language is weird, strange, wonderful, intricate, innovative, confusing, complex, and most of all, multi-layered. There are so many layers and factors that ...

Written and spoken language can exist separately in the brain, a new study from Johns Hopkins shows.

What is language, why do we use it, and how did it evolve? These are questions that language researchers are still working to answer. From a basic standpoint, a language is a shared system of symbols ...

Previous studies on the processing of sign language in the human brain had already found some similarities and also differences between sign languages and spoken languages.

Study suggests different written languages are equally efficient at conveying meaning Date: February 1, 2016 Source: University of Southampton Summary: A study has found there is no difference in ...

Politics says something different For political scientists, the difference between a language and a dialect is not based on mutual understandability, but rather politics.

Mitchell says recent progress in natural language processing holds significant promise for automating the analysis of written and spoken language, which could transform research in economics and ...