News tagged with english linguistics
Language change can be traced using gigantic text archives
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Historical collections that include everything ever written in a dozen American and British newspapers since they started are now available electronically. Donald MacQueen from Uppsala University, Sweden, ...
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Researchers study second language loss in elderly
Mar 14, 2007 |
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Imagine coming to Canada as a young adult from a country where English is not spoken. Over the years, you work hard to learn English and, using it every day of your life, end up speaking it well. As you become elderly, however, ...
Toddlers develop individualized rules for grammar
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using advanced computer modeling and statistical analysis, a University of Texas at Austin linguistics professor has found that toddlers develop their own individual structures for using language that are ...
Finding more in 'most': Scientific study of an everyday word
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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William Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about words, advised that "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." But the exact meaning of plain language isn't always easy to find. Even simple words like "most" and ...
An evil storm is forecast
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Wicked, Evil, Foul, Bad -- all words meaning essentially the same thing, yet we don't talk about "evil weather," "foul witches" or the "forces of bad."
Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essence
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies ...
How words shape the world
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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Our minds might be able to find the right word quicker than Google and yet we rarely pause to think about how language shapes everything we do.
Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Teaching young children how to speak a second language is good for their minds, report two Cornell linguistic researchers.
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 ...
Running words together: The science behind cross-linguistic psychology
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2008 |
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While communication may be recognized as a universal phenomenon, differences between languages -- ranging from word-order to semantics -- undoubtedly remain as they help to define culture and develop language. Yet, little ...
Prof: English sounds like one language, but it's really not
Jul 12, 2005 |
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Americans need to realize that English as they know it is not what the rest of the world knows, says a Purdue University English language expert.
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