Some of the building blocks of human language appear to be present in a wide range of social animals. Key elements of grammar previously thought to be used only by humans have been found in animals as ...

Language is how we connect — to each other, to the past, to the future — how we create culture, communicate ideas, and make decisions. Scientists are keen to discover more about how language works, ...

Scientists studying sperm whales have uncovered the foundational aspects of their potential communication system. Sperm whales, like many cetaceans, use rapid clicks for communication and echolocation ...

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Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort ...

Depending on what subject you’re studying, morphology can mean different things. In linguistics, morphology is the study of word formation, words, and how words relate to each other in a language.