CRITICAL evaluation of Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry began in the early 1900s when Sheikh Abdul Qadir’s article on Iqbal appeared in May 1902 issue of Khadang-i-Nazar, an Urdu magazine published from ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Human everyday communication is spoken rather than written, but the overwhelming majority of psycholinguistic research underlying models of sentence processing is still based on reading rather than ...

At SlatorCon London 2025, Slator’s Silvia Terribile hosted a panel discussion centered on the challenges and importance of prosody in AI speech. AppTek.ai experts Volker Steinbiss and Florian Lux were ...

While prosody is an integral part of spoken language, serving grammatical as well as para-linguistic means, it is conspicuously absent in the written modality. Apart from punctuation, there is hardly ...

The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic principle that lies at the base of large language models such as ChatGPT.

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...