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Words and gesture may seem to be two distinct sets of communication tools, and someone would expect that they are processed in different parts of the brain. However, this does not seem to be the case, as indicated by a new scientific study funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders... |
10 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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It would appear that the brains of Arabic speakers do not process Literary Arabic as a mother tongue, but rather as a second language. The conclusion was drawn by experts at the University of Haifa Department of Learning Disabilities, who were led by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim. He is a scientist at the UH Edmond J. Safra Bra... |
4 November 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Macaque monkeys revealed a new way of interpreting the origins of music and language when scientists discovered that, when the primates drum on trees or logs, the same neural network involved in communicating is activated. This find seems to suggest that, in primates, the vocal and nonvocal communication systems may ... |
17 October 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Experts from the University of Alberta, in Canada, have recently discovered in a new study that chat and texting speak does not seem to adversely affect children's ability to learn language properly. Known among parents and teachers for the seemingly barbaric abbreviations it uses, the specific language that is ... |
22 September 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Though it may seem surprising, today, children still prefer writing their longer essays and other texts using a pen rather than a keyboard. And, apparently, they are good at it too. A new scientific study has revealed that they write both better and faster when they do not use a keyboard. The investigation was conduc... |
17 September 2009
20:51 GMT |
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Few have bothered to note that an Apple keynote is also a brainwasher filled with adjectives like great, awesome, incredible, and the list continues. In this YouTube video, the “Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple” is shown as someone who is not an Apple fan sees the company. Apple has outdone even itself ... |
16 September 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Experts at the LENA Foundation have recently announced the development of a new device that can spot autism at a very early age. According to their press release, the machine is able to detect the disease in children as small as two years old, which is a progress from the 5.7 years usual methods take. It relies on id... |
15 September 2009
14:51 GMT |
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More than 4,000 objects bearing the symbols characteristic to the Indus Valley Civilization have been discovered in the past century, a wealth of information that should, at least in theory, mean that archaeologists know everything there is to know about the time. However, that is not the case. Since the earliest sym... |
4 August 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The American Academy of Neurology reports that people who exhibit higher language skills as adolescents and young adults in their 20s are far less likely to develop dementia, the Alzheimer's disease, or another type of neurodegenerative mental conditions than others. The research, which is published in the July ... |
9 July 2009
14:41 GMT |
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In a new groundbreaking study, experts have managed to demonstrate that cotton-top tamarins are able to identify the words in which syllables are placed in an incorrect order. The find holds a great significance for studying the origin of language, and especially for its non-verbal components, which the scientists sa... |
8 July 2009
08:31 GMT |
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According to a new batch of scientific studies, it would appear that the reason why Western music is able to make itself heard even in the most distant corners of the world is the fact that it can easily convey emotions across cultural barriers, even if no actual lyrics are sung. This may be one of the main motives w... |
23 March 2009
05:11 GMT |
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When introducing the third generation iPod shuffle, Apple revealed to the world that its newest player could talk. Not only that, but it could do so in several different languages, Apple added. However, in order to have your iPod speak out the names of the tracks, audiobooks or podcasts in the language they were orig... |
19 March 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Two years ago, upset by the way his mates at South Pasadena Middle School used cussing and dirty jokes, McKay Hatch set up the No Cussing Club, which came accompanied by a website as well. Now, with more than 30,000 members from all over the world, the example of this 14-year-old boy has inspired County Supervisor Mi... |
3 March 2009
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The Southwest script was a very old Iberian language, which has long since gone extinct. That is, until archaeologists started uncovering hints of its existence, in the form of various tablets and slabs of rock, adorned with the most complex symbols. Thus far, all attempts at deciphering the ancient relics have faile... |
2 March 2009
06:29 GMT |
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The latest research on the psychology behind massive text messaging shows that parents should carefully reconsider taking their teens' cell phones away from them. According to a recent paper published in the latest issue of the journal British Journal of Developmental Psychology, texting may very well be helping... |
25 February 2009
10:04 GMT |
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The large primates, which are humans' closest relatives, also have the most elaborate system of communication other than our own. A new study, which surveyed gorilla populations in their natural habitat, may have found new clues as to how human language appeared and developed over time. Researchers have discover... |
10 February 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Three ancient statues representing the African animal-god Amun were unearthed at el-Hassa, in Sudan, nearly three weeks ago, some 200 kms (120 miles) to the north of the capital city of Khartoum. The statues bear inscriptions that could help experts understand an ancient tongue, one of the few left undeciphered in th... |
17 December 2008
09:12 GMT |
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Let us cast aside initial skepticism for a little while, and imagine that there really are aliens somewhere. In fact, not just anywhere, but right here on Earth, on the Moon or on Mars – places to which we currently have some sort of direct access. Well, given this situation, what would we do, how would we be a... |
22 October 2008
10:47 GMT |
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The Mozilla Labs have released an experimental version of a Firefox extension called Ubiquity. The software aims at providing a mash-up like service for users by allowing them to gather information from various web resources in an automated manner and use this information directly within the browser.In web developmen... |
28 August 2008
08:33 GMT |
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VirtualKeyboard, a CoralloSoftware-developed utility for Mac OS X, has reached version 3.5, which now offers support for languages with a non-Roman alphabet including Cyrillic and Eastern European languages, compatibility with Spaces, a Zoom button in the toolbar and more. A free trial version of the software is avai... |
21 August 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Bad Dog Applications has released a holiday utility for owners of an iPhone, or iPod touch, which translates the user's own commonly-used sentences, or modifies one of the 250 stored sentences categorized for quick browsing and searching. The utility also allows the user to store any translation in a list of fav... |
20 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Although this update could be seen as early as a few days ago, the Mountain View-based company officially introduced the new Google Translate languages today, along with several other improvements to the translation technology. The newly introduced languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Nor... |
16 May 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Google Translate has always been a useful web tool because it allowed users to translate texts and websites with a single click. Moreover, just like most other Google services, it was available for free. However, Google Translate only provided a number of 26 language pairs because it only allowed users to translate t... |
8 May 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Having trouble with your touch-screen iPhone keyboard? Are typos giving you headaches? Does it bother you that your iPhone doesn't support your language? Well, although Softpedia doesn't encourage installing apps that require a jailbroken device, it can't hurt to at least learn of the potential of apps... |
23 April 2008
03:53 GMT |
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You don't have to wait for the age of speech learning. A team led by Professor of Neuroscience April Benasich, at Infancy Studies Laboratory at Rutgers University in Newark, found just how the brains of 3-month old infants differentiate sounds signal language issues.The methods developed by this team can assess ... |
16 April 2008
04:32 GMT |
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The study of the origin of the languages is one of the most complicated disciplines. Since ancient times, people have attempted to explain it via legends like the Tower of Babel and similar stories from the Central American, African and Indian mythologies. Researchers have tried to count how many languages are spoke ... |
8 April 2008
10:10 GMT |
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The complex human speech is one of the most important traits that differentiate us from animals. It relies on our large brains, however it is not a question of size but of brain wiring, as showed by a new research published in "Nature Neuroscience." Since the 19th century, the Broca nucleus in the frontal cortex and ... |
27 March 2008
06:14 GMT |
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We all know the theory that Native Americans came from Siberia. So far, we have had archaeological and genetic proofs for this. Now, we have the first linguistic link: a nearly extinct language of central Siberia has a common origin with one of the largest groups of Native American languages, Na Dene, spoken thousa... |
27 March 2008
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Robots, as most other computer controlled devices, probably will never be able to fully understand human language, or to differentiate between two images of the same object. That is the disadvantage of processing information in binary code. However, robots can be taught, or at least instructed. Such a robot was recen... |
20 March 2008
07:58 GMT |
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Let's face it: men come from Mars, women from Venus. Women hear from a conversation just words like shopping, money, jewel, gold, diamond, spending, and so on. Men hear just sex, football, boobs, a**, beer, chicks and so on. A new study published in "Neuropsychologia" comes with another element to the overwhelmi... |
14 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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According to University of Hertfordshire professors Chrystopher Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn, from the School of Computer Science, in the close future we may find ourselves surrounded by robots bearing human features. The first step in developing such machines is the robot created by the University of Plymouth, whi... |
5 March 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Coolgorilla.com has finally released its free iPod Phrase Books, following generous contributors' donations to the group. The Phrase Books are available for download via the iTunes. Sponsored by lastminute.com, the Phrase Books are available in six different languages, translating text into audio.Also, each lang... |
26 February 2008
08:39 GMT |
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The help-wanted ads are circulating the underground Internet channels and the desired applicants must be hackers and nothing less. As the web society evolves, so must the attacks and now after all of the major companies opened local branches to deal with the problems that might show up in the course of time (Google, ... |
21 February 2008
11:31 GMT |
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Well, the development of your brain is not only influenced by genetics, diet and intellectual stimulation, but also by... your mother tongue! "Everyone has a brain stem, but it's tuned differently depending on what sounds are behaviorally relevant to a person, for example, the sounds of his or her mother tongue,... |
20 February 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Languages behave just like species. This is the conclusion of a new research published in the Nature journal, showing that languages evolve in fits and starts, rather than gradually, a phenomenon called punctuated evolution in biology. The idea is not that new, but the British team employed mathematics to show this i... |
4 February 2008
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The disappearance of Native languages has touched Alaska. Marie Smith Jones, the woman who was the last native speaker of the Eyak language of Alaska has died at the age of 89 in her home in Anchorage. She was a champion of indigenous rights and conservation and collaborated with the University of Alaska for creating... |
25 January 2008
04:47 GMT |
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Speech is perhaps what makes us different from apes. They can have some degree of logics, but this is boosted to astronomic values in humans by speech. Speech is made of two sets of symbols: words and grammar, rules through which words are combined in phrases expressing precise links between objects and events. "John... |
12 January 2008
07:53 GMT |
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The Google Robotics Division team have come open with what they have been working on, for the past year or so, and are finally ready to release their latest creation to the world. Yes, I know, it was a great surprise for me too, and by the looks of it, it is certain to change the face of things… if only it were true.... |
19 December 2007
14:51 GMT |
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In short, there's not going to be any natural language search because people are lazy and don't type in the entire question, but rather a couple of words that they would like to find in the answer. That's saying it grosso modo, Peter chose the more subtle approach of using carefully worded answers to t... |
19 December 2007
06:23 GMT |
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"I think - tide turning - see, as I remember - I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of-it's easy to see a tide turn-did I say those words?" You all know and love him, it's your George Bush! Let's give him a round of applause as he goes off the stage.I actually thought of this quote from the Ameri... |
11 December 2007
05:07 GMT |
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You come across these people in many countries; they do not have a national territory or their own government. Legends describe their arrival from Egypt, but these are only fairytales. Ignorant people in the west associate their origin with Eastern Europe, like Hungary and Romania. That's false, even if indeed l... |
28 November 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Picture this: you start receiving tons of spam from a lot of foreign countries and it takes so much of your inbox that you can't really find your regular email conversations even if you go to the third page or so. And if you're looking back to the third page you must be either really anxious about reading t... |
15 November 2007
10:10 GMT |
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Most people babble a few words and imagine that a grammatically incorrect and wrongly pronounced enumeration of words means they 'can speak a foreign language' such as Spanish or French. And here comes this primary school boy speaking 10 languages besides English. Arpan Sharma, 10, from The Blue Coat School... |
6 November 2007
06:32 GMT |
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Picasa Web Albums or Google's photo sharing service is now available in 38 languages after the Picasa team included support for several new countries. Among the new ones, I can mention Bulgarian, Hindi, Slovenian, Filipino or Thai. In addition, Picasa Web Albums was improved with mobile support which enables the... |
2 November 2007
15:36 GMT |
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In case you never heard of it, Google Warehouse is probably the best source of 3D models for your computer, because the Google SketchUp users can upload their creations for free on this freeware website hosted by the Mountain View company. The webpage started to grow up since Google added interoperability for Google ... |
1 November 2007
05:15 GMT |
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Language is a living organism. And just as any living organism, it experiences evolution. Will we be able to understand the English of the year 3,000? It seems that at least at a basic level, the answer is positive. The words which are used the most in everyday language are the most conservative, as found by two new ... |
22 October 2007
03:30 GMT |
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It has already been predicted that by the end of the century, half of the languages spoken now worldwide will be gone. Not by evolving into another language (like Latin into Italian, Spanish, French or Romanian), but by being wiped out by other languages. A team has detected five global "hot spots" of indigenous lang... |
19 September 2007
04:35 GMT |
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Google Reader, the web-based RSS client powered by the Mountain View company was finally updated to the final product stage after the 'Labs' label was removed. As you might have heard, Google Reader was introduced a long time ago on the Internet but since then, it has remained a part of the Google Labs, the... |
19 September 2007
04:08 GMT |
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The search giant Google released an updated version of Picasa that brings several new goodies for all the users of the application. First of all, you should know that Picasa is now available in seven more languages: Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, and Ukrainian. If you didn't... |
23 August 2007
06:31 GMT |
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If you didn't know, Gmail is a mail solution that is available in numerous languages although most of the users prefer to use the product in the main US interface. However, if you want to change your language, here's what you must do: login in to your Gmail account, click on 'Settings' and you sho... |
22 August 2007
16:51 GMT |
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