As the world celebrates another Chinese Lunar New Year, as a genealogist the topic of Chinese surnames naturally occupies my mind once more.

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

Here & Now revisits one of the show’s favorite topics: mispronounced words. It turns out we all do it — sometimes spending ...

The city’s buildings were once laid out in a way that formed a rhythmic pattern. Today’s structures are tone-deaf.

Students across Oregon are still struggling with reading and writing – but a Eugene area district says it's seeing ...

Harding, however, was no Trump: The president, newly elected to a second term, has a mean if not sadistic streak, an ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

Musicality is also important; things such as the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables - often referred to as meter - as well as the rhyme scheme, the pattern of rhyming words ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

Words are made up of different sounds. These are called syllables. Syllables are a bit like 'beats' in a word. You can count how many syllables are in a word by counting how many beats there are.

Turing patterns offer insight into (among other things) the patterns we find on animals, whether it’s the splotches on ...