While steganography is the art of hiding messages in plain sight, linguistic steganalysis is the science of finding them. This…
In the high-stakes world of diplomatic communication, some messages are designed to be meaningless. Nullity protocols use a constant stream…
Claude Shannon's information theory provides a mathematical lens to view language's predictability, a concept known as entropy. This predictability, or…
Ever wonder how you can understand someone through a crackly phone line or a loud cough? The answer lies in…
Does your language dictate how you perceive time itself? The famous and controversial claim that the Hopi language has no…
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…
A period can feel aggressive, while an exclamation point is the new digital smile. We decode the new, unwritten rules…
Ever wondered how languages like Hebrew and Arabic are read by millions without written vowels? It's not magic, but an…
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