Abstract: Forensic speaker comparison depends on precise vowel identification. Yet existing methods have a few bottlenecks in the sense that they need manual processing or language-specific resources.

In January middle school and high school students at more than 200 host sites across the U.S. and parts of Canada competed in the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO), ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

An anonymous bomb threat is phoned into a school. A lengthy manifesto inciting violence is posted online under a pseudonym. A series of texts is sent from a missing person’s phone, but the person ...

In the spring of 2017, in a room on the second floor of Google’s Building 1965, a college intern named Aidan Gomez stretched out, exhausted. It was three in the morning, and Gomez and Ashish Vaswani, ...

Over the past few decades, animal sounds have seen a huge surge in research. Advances in recording equipment and analysis techniques have driven new insights into animal behaviour, population ...

For the past decade, one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, square mile after square mile, has been my home: Queens, New York. The soundtrack outside my door is extraordinary: On ...

If you've heard "goblin mode" or "swiftie" lately, it's thanks to them: Young girls are more innovative with language than any other group, linguists say. Young women check their phones on a fire ...