Some recent articles on language and linguistics

"What Is Laughter?" Almeida, Abilio. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (May 9, 2026). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07432-4. "A Sentence Is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Can Large Language Models Understand Hum4n L4ngu4ge and the W0rld behind W0rds?" Leivada, Evelina et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 384, no. 2320 (May 14, 2026): 20250008. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/384/2320/20250008/481681/A-sentence-is-worth-a-thousand-pictures-can-large. "Introduction to the Special Issue: Multidialectism in the Multilingual Turn." Walter, Daniel et al. L2 Journal 18, no. 2 (May 7, 2026). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7n93x63x. "Going beyond Description: Multilingual Topic Modelling and Theoretical Integration in Comparative Media Analysis." Wang, Weili et al. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (May 15, 2026). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07642-w. "The…