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Babble Of Baby Reveals Language Skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Children have a remarkable ability to learn new languages. As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling ...
Babies' language learning starts from the womb
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study published online on November 5th in Current Biology, a Cell Press ...
What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a native language. This has been shown in a new study by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the ...
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 ...
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Just in time for Black Friday: students turn iPhone into barcode scanner
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Comparing prices over the Internet has become a common practice for consumers. Now, just in time for Black Friday, a group of Missouri University of Science and Technology students is putting ...
IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator
Technology / Computer Sciences
19 hours ago |
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IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...
Measured -- The time it takes us to find the words we need
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
21 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The time it takes for our brains to search for and retrieve the word we want to say has been measured for the first time. The discovery is reported in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
Donate your text messages to science: Texto4Science project
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
22 hours ago |
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A Université de Montréal researcher has a special request for Canadian texters: "Everyone young and old, students and workers, artists and business people, no matter who you are, send me your text messages," ...
Google buying display ad startup Teracent
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Google is acquiring Web display advertising startup Teracent, the Internet giant announced on Monday.
Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's ...
Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare
Nov 23, 2009 |
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In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on ...
Robotic clam digs in mudflats
Nov 22, 2009 |
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To design a lightweight anchor that can dig itself in to hold small underwater submersibles, Anette (Peko) Hosoi of MIT borrowed techniques from one of nature's best diggers -- the razor clam.
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 ...
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