Common phrases, not fancy words, can make you sound more fluent in a foreign language
Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research ...
In the Calls of Bonobos, Scientists Hear Hints of Language
Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...
Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...
Do vowels have colors? According to some with synesthesia, yes.
It's hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition where a stimulus that affects one sense prompts a ...
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Bonobos’ Complex Calls Share an Extraordinary Trait with Human Language
Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...
Millennials Can't Cope With Fake 2010s 'Hit' Song Going Viral
Comedian Kyle Gordon's viral song nails 2010s folk-pop nostalgia—and millennial cringe—with uncanny precision.
Music Industry Moves: Warner Music Group and Josh Groban Raise $800,000 for Harmony Program
Warner Music Group and Grammy-nominated artist and philanthropist Josh Groban were honored at the organization's annual gala held at The Altman Building in Flatiron on April 2. The night culminated ...
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Scientists Listened To Bonobo Calls And Found Remarkable Similarities With Human Language
Bonobos are our closest living relatives along with chimpanzees, both sharing around 98.8 percent of their DNA with humans.
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