Humans use language by combining words. The meaning of these word combinations can be divided into two types. One is a compositional meaning, where the individual words' meanings are simply added ...

Before there was a thriving aboveground house scene in Colorado, the Centennial State’s electronic-music offerings were ruled by a cohort of bass-heads, ranging from drippy psychedelia, Á la Tipper, ...

Bonobos, our evolutionary cousins in the primate family, may be able to use vocal sounds to communicate meaning in a way that had previously only been observed in humans, according to a study ...

Babies sometimes laugh and sometimes cry. It doesn’t take a genius to decode the meaning of these sounds. But it isn’t quite as straightforward to decipher the meaning, if any, of an infant’s babbles.

In electronic music, style matters more than all else. Performers who work with computers and other digital gadgets often use the same tools; they draw from the same sources; and they fall within a ...