Teaching computers to make sense of human language has long been a goal of computer scientists. The natural language that people use when speaking to each other is complex and deeply dependent upon ...

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...

A foreign language is all the more difficult to master when it differs from one's native language in unexpected ways. The following three situations are particularly challenging: The foreign language ...