A few years ago a controversy arose at UNH over American Sign Language.  For a long time the introductory course in it had ...

Speaking requires a precise sequence of muscle movements, long thought to be coordinated by Broca’s area in the brain.

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Every day, strategic plans collapse over a single phrase. Funders and grantees misinterpret each other’s intent.

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An NYU team uses machine learning to analyze neural activity data and uncover how speech is produced. In a recent paper ...

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The last word: why half of the world's languages could vanish this century There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking.

While our analysis excluded words that are especially likely to appear in example sentences (such as “woman” and “father”), such words could have still influenced our results to some extent.