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Polish and Italian get advanced language recognition system
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed the most advanced spontaneous language understanding (SLU) system for both Polish and Italian. In fact, it is the first one.
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Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language, ...
Preschoolers' language development is partly tied to their classmates' language skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 15, 2009 |
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Young children learn how to speak and understand language from the words parents speak at home and teachers speak in preschool. A new longitudinal study has found that their preschool classmates also play a part.
Unlocking the brain after stroke
Sep 23, 2008 |
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University of Queensland research is set to unlock the regions of the brain central to successful language treatment following a stroke.
Sign language puzzle solved
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, ...
No easy answers in evolution of human language
Feb 17, 2008 |
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The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.
How do we understand written language?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 16, 2009 |
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How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...
World-first device may help solve child language mystery
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are one step closer to understanding why children can learn languages far more easily than adults, thanks to a world-first device that allows scientists to measure the magnetic ...
International research tests language tests
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Unique Queen's University research will shed light on how motivation and anxiety affects language test scores, and on the relationship between the test scores and the social and educational contexts of the tests.
Perceptions of similar language may prevent understanding of sexual harassment policies
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Mar 19, 2009 |
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Although the Society for Human Resource Management reports that 97 percent of U.S. companies have a written sexual harassment policy, a recent University of Missouri study indicates that those policies might not be effective ...
Language driven by culture, not biology
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Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Language in humans has evolved culturally rather than genetically, according to a study by UCL (University College London) and US researchers. By modelling the ways in which genes for language might have ...
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