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Woman aquires new accent after stroke
Jul 03, 2008 |
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A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking with a different accent, McMaster University researchers report in the July issue of the Canadian Jo ...
What makes an accent in a foreign language lighter
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 10, 2009 |
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The more empathy one has for another, the lighter the accent will be when speaking in a second language. This is the conclusion of a new study carried out at the University of Haifa by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim and Dr. Mark Leikin ...
Google voice search learns Chinese
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Google's voice search tool now understands Chinese. The Internet giant announced on Monday that users of Nokia S60 series mobile phones could now search the Internet using voice commands in Mandarin Chinese.
Children as young as 19 months understand different dialects
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 06, 2009 |
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We are surrounded by a multitude of different accents every day. Even when a speaker of another English dialect pronounces words differently than we do, we are typically able to recognize their words. Psychologist Catherine ...
Foreign subtitles improve speech perception
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitt's southern accent in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published ...
Chemotherapy combination outcomes differ for aged, younger colon cancer patients
May 29, 2009 |
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ORLANDO, Fla.--The combination of chemotherapies 5FU and oxaliplatin compared to 5FU alone after surgery for colon cancer decreases colon cancer recurrence and promotes longer survival for patients under 70 -- but not for ...
Canadian first: The heart in telemonitoring
Dec 15, 2009 |
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The electrophysiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) recently performed the first implantation of a new type of cardiac pacemaker (Accent RF) in Canada. This landmark procedure was carried out on October 22, 2009 ...
'Fishy' clue helps establish how proteins evolve
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three billion years ago, a "new" amino acid was added to the alphabet of 20 that commonly make up proteins in organisms today. Now researchers at Yale and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated ...
Mapping the English language – from cockney to Orkney
May 25, 2007 |
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If they were Scousers they’d be “made up”; from the Black Country they’d be “bostin”. But researchers from the University of Leeds are naturally “well chuffed” to receive a £460,000 grant to examine and catalogue the dialects ...
Hyundai to Start Retail Sales of First Hybrid in July 2009
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Hyundai Motor Company plans to start retail sales of its first LPG–electric hybrid vehicle in July 2009. To be sold initially in the Korean domestic market under the Avante badge, the Elantra LPI Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) ...
New car smell is bad for you
Apr 24, 2007 |
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That "new car smell" can be hazardous to your health, The Ecology Center, a Berkeley, Calif., environmental group said.
Researchers shed light on the brain mechanism responsible for processing of speech
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables networks of neurons to efficiently decode speech ...
2007 vehicle fuel economy list released
Oct 17, 2006 |
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The Toyota Prius gets the top fuel economy rating, while the Lamborghini L-147 ranks last on the 2007 U.S. government Fuel Economy Guide.
American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema. One of her conclusions ...
BBC interviews cabbie on media policy
May 15, 2006 |
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In a case of mistaken identity, a London cab driver was pulled into a BBC television studio for a live interview about the Internet music business.
