/newsroom/taxonomy/term/7523/all en /newsroom/siva-reddy Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:57:19 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 307661 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/ai-can-learn-patterns-human-language-342712 <p>Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech sounds and word structures in the way humans do. But researchers from ÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û, MIT, and Cornell University have taken a step in this direction. They have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can learn the rules and patterns of human languages on its own.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2022 20:33:32 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288415 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/understanding-our-perception-rhythm-331838 <p>Scientists have long known that while listening to a sequence of sounds, people often perceive a rhythm, even when the sounds are identical and equally spaced. One regularity that was discovered over 100 years ago is the <i>Iambic-Trochaic Law</i>: when every other sound is loud, we tend to hear groups of two sounds with an initial beat. When every other sound is long, we hear groups of two sounds with a final beat. But why does our rhythm perception work this way?</p> Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:28:02 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 269919 at /newsroom /newsroom/timothy-odonnell Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:40:23 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 196648 at /newsroom /newsroom/michel-paradis Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22888 at /newsroom /newsroom/michael-wagner Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 24008 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/first-language-wires-brain-later-language-learning-257068 <p>Research also demonstrates brain's plasticity and ability to adapt to new language environments Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:35:58 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 24955 at /newsroom