For years, many linguists have believed that learning language is impossible without a built-in grammar template. But new AI models such as GPT-3 prove otherwise, demonstrating that the ability to produce grammatical language can be learned from linguistic experience...

A two-volume collection of the complete poetic works of Marjorie Boulton has been published by Esperanto Association of Britain. Over 1200 pages long, Unu animo homa, a title taken from her poem “Aliĝilo”, contains all of her books of poetry, starting with her debut...

The 108th World Esperanto Congress in Turin will include the 76th session of the International Congress University (IKU). UEA asks that proposals for IKU talks be submitted by 31 January 2023. In connection with the IKU the International Academy of Sciences (AIS) will...

A study in the magazine Nature finds that contact with other languages is not a driver of language loss, but that formal education and a greater density of roads can be. Studo en la anglalingva revuo Naturo trovas, ke kontakto kun aliaj lingvoj ne kaŭzas lingvoperdon,...

The definition of the word láska “love” in the Dictionary of the Contemporary Slovak Language no longer mentions opposite sexes, thus reflecting reality. This article talks about why the change took place in the week after a terrorist attack on Bratislava’s Zámocká...

Here is a report on the interlinguistics session held this September, partly at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland and partly online. Jen raporto pri la interlingvistika sesio okazinta parte en la Universitato Adam Mickiewicz en Poznano (Pollando) kaj...

As part of Esperanto’s 3rd Virtual Congress there will be a Public-Speaking Competition, open to congress members of up to 35 years of age. Participants will speak in Esperanto for a maximum of ten minutes on one of the following topics: “When an Indigenous language...

Suggest items for Esperanto’s 3rd Virtual Congress (VK), to be held from 24 to 27 November 2022 alongside Retoso, the online event of the World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO). Proposals for talks, panels, debates, author appearances, artistic and cultural...

Demonstration of embodied cognition mechanisms in the brain could have implications for artificial intelligence. In a recent study, scientists observed how the brain responds to words representing objects that can be manipulated by hand, when a participant's hands...

On its own, a new machine-learning model can discover linguistic rules that often match up with those created by human experts. Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech...

A recent article by Steven Mintz, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, examines how language became a key cultural, ideological and political battleground: “Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown:...

A short online article discusses five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language. Mallonga anglalingva artikolo diskutas kvin mitojn pri la kontribuoj de Ŝekspiro al tiu lingvo.

A recent study sheds light on how babies learn to distinguish contrastive sounds (big, pig) in their own language while rapidly losing the ability to distinguish the contrastive sounds of other languages. Building on their previous research, the authors suggest that...

The London Institute of Skills Development is hosting the Applied Research International Conference on Education, Literature and Language at Cambridge University, UK from November 3rd to 5th this year. This is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, consultants,...

During this summer’s 56th Baltic Esperanto Days gathering in Klaipėda, Ryszard Rokicki presented his new book Enkonduko en la morfologion de Esperanto (Introduction to the morphology of Esperanto). Rokicki has spent nearly 50 years working on Esperantology. En la 56aj...

The Philology Faculty of Vilnius University, Department of Lithuanian Studies, the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA) and the Institute of the Lithuanian Language are currently holding the Sixth International Conference of Applied Linguistics on...