If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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Phrasal verbs, or multi-word verbs, are verbs that are combined with one or two particles (a preposition or an adverb), for example, 'off' or 'on', to make verbs with new meanings. These new meanings ...

A team of researchers from Saarbrücken and Leipzig has examined around 1,700 languages to identify structures that might ...

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Phrasal verbs or multi-word verbs are verbs that are combined with one or two particles (a preposition or adverb), for example, 'out' to make verbs with new meanings. For example, drop means to let ...

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In “Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion,” he argued that language is a biological system unique to humans, despite the widespread belief that it extended to other animals. By Michael S. Rosenwald The linguist ...

So far I have groused and I have instructed, so let’s segue into a little humor. Saying (or singing) wrong words is grounds ...