Tag: Language and Languages

‘Parentese’ Is Truly a Lingua Franca, Global Study Finds

We’ve all seen it, we’ve all cringed at it, we’ve all done it ourselves: talked to a baby…

Recording India’s Linguistic Riches as Leaders Push Hindi as Nation’s Tongue

DHARWAD, India — The task was gargantuan: assembling a team of more than 3,500 language specialists, academics and…

‘Allinllachu.’ Google Translate Adds Quechua to Its Platform.

LIMA — When Irma Alvarez Ccoscco heard that the language she has spoken her entire life, Quechua, had…

For Russian-Speaking Ukrainians, Language Clubs Offer Way to Defy Invaders

LVIV, Ukraine — The teacher sounded her words slowly, careful to show which syllable to stress: Eyebrow. Cheekbones.…

A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?

But as GPT-3’s fluency has dazzled many observers, the large-language-model approach has also attracted significant criticism over the…