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Claude Shannon's information theory provides a mathematical lens to view language's predictability, a concept known as entropy. This predictability, or…
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Discover Gematria, the ancient Hebrew practice of finding hidden meaning by assigning numerical values to letters. More than a simple…
For centuries, the Vigenère cipher was known as 'the indecipherable cipher', a testament to its clever use of a linguistic…
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It’s not just what you say, but how you say it that can betray a lie. The prosody of speech—the…
Ever wondered how a fleeting thought transforms into a spoken sentence in mere milliseconds? We explore Willem Levelt's groundbreaking model…
From "smartphone" to "bookworm", compound words are far more than a linguistic quirk; they are powerful cognitive shortcuts. By chunking…
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