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While it's intuitive to argue that language appeared so that we can communicate more efficiently, linguists are not convinced that this was indeed the main reason. Debates on this issue have been raging on for years, and now experts in the United States bring an interesting point of view to the table.
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19 January 2012
07:36 GMT |
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University of Arizona Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences assistant professor Stephen Wilson recently managed to figure out in a new study that white brain matter plays a huge role in underlying the way the brain understands language.
White matter pathways have largely gone by ignored by researchers... |
28 November 2011
03:42 GMT |
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According to the results of a new investigation carried out by scientists at the University of Chicago, it would appear that preschool kids who hear their parents use words such as tall, tiny, little and big tend to exhibit improved spatial abilities, when compared to their peers.
Spatial skills are essential durin... |
10 November 2011
02:29 GMT |
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The world's languages are extremely varied and diverse, yet they must all share some common grounds, linguists reason. Based on this assumption, researchers at the University of Cambridge are now embarking on a new research to understand how languages are built.
Their work will cover everything from Navajo to ... |
8 November 2011
09:25 GMT |
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Users in the United States were already capable of controlling their Android-powered mobile phones using their voice, courtesy of Voice Actions, a series of spoken commands that were launched last year for them, and now more users can take advantage of this feature.
Using Voice Actions, people can easily call a ... |
16 September 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Scientists have recently determined that toddlers who learn to speak later than usual are not necessarily at higher risk of suffering from behavioral or emotional problems than their peers who learn how to speak at a younger age. Previous studies indicated that late speakers tended to suffer from such disorders later... |
4 July 2011
09:16 GMT |
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A team of experts is currently working with funds from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a new robotic language. With it, robots will be able to communicate amongst themselves more efficiently, which should ultimately increase their productivity and overall performances. Interestingly, the language ... |
27 June 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Humans and dolphins are cooperating with each other on the creation of a common language, one that would enable the two species to establish basic communications with each other. Over time, that language could be expended to more complex terms and queries, experts believe. Past studies have already demonstrated that ... |
10 May 2011
07:46 GMT |
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A new study confirms and expands upon past proposals that the human brain may in fact be a lot more flexible than thought. The investigation revealed that the brain areas responsible for processing various stimuli can be recruited to perform other functions, if their primary one cannot be satisfied. Generally, the br... |
1 March 2011
08:53 GMT |
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Investigators working in Nicaragua say that their results indicate a tight connection between the ability to communicate via language and the a thorough understanding of the meaning associated with numbers. The new study was carried out on deaf people in the South American nation. Susan Goldin-Meadow, a psychologist ... |
8 February 2011
04:34 GMT |
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People are attracted to other people because of their appearance, their personality and their values, and those who get married believe they have found their match, but a new study says that there are many more things that make a relationship work, and the way people talk is one of them.It seems that people who speak... |
26 January 2011
06:30 GMT |
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Most new parents adopt baby talk when addressing their children, but they should know that their babies, even if they are too young to talk, understand many of the words adults say, since their brains process them in a grown-up way.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, used MRI and MEG technologi... |
8 January 2011
04:31 GMT |
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A new study carried out by Cambridge University researchers has led to the discovery of a new chapter in the history of the Bible, giving researchers insight into a part of the Byzantine Jewish life and culture.It seems that contrary to what was largely believed, Jews continued to use a Greek version of the Bible in ... |
28 December 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just announced the addition of new features to its Voice Search solution, with the inclusion of support for Zulu and Afrikaans, along with South African-accented English.Voice Search has been constantly updated with new features during the past few months, and now it off... |
11 November 2010
04:19 GMT |
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In a recent investigation, researchers showed that it was changes in the brains of hominids living in the Stone Age that allowed for them to start creating more complex tools. For many years, historians and anthropologists have been wondering as to what was it exactly that allowed our ancestors living in the Stone Ag... |
4 November 2010
11:10 GMT |
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A new scientific investigation conducted in Sweden has revealed that the main difference between native speakers and those who use Swedish as their second language is the amount of “special” word combinations they use. The concept refers to expressions made of plain words, but which mean entire different ... |
12 October 2010
11:21 GMT |
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A new study finds that language barriers could play an important role in health care disparities, and that people who do not speak English at home, are less likely to receive CRC screenings, compared to those who do speak English at home.The study was carried out by researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Bo... |
29 September 2010
10:30 GMT |
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A licentiate thesis in English from the University of Gothenburg, concluded that because of the globalization process, in many Swedish companies that were sold to owners in other countries, employees are often forced to change their working language from Swedish to English.Vivianne Apelman is the author of this thesi... |
13 September 2010
06:52 GMT |
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iOS 4.1 reportedly adds support for the Cherokee tribe’s language, making it the first Native language to be featured on Apple devices. Called the Cherokee syllabary, the language is used by more than 290,000 Cherokee citizens.According to a report, the Cherokee Nation has been working with Apple’ develop... |
10 September 2010
04:29 GMT |
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Single neurons and even single dendrites (the small receiving elements of neurons) can effectively identify and differentiate temporal sequences of incoming information, a new research carried out by UCL neuroscientists reveals.Until now, the scientists' general point of view was that for processing information,... |
13 August 2010
05:59 GMT |
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A new study carried out by researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute shows that the way parents speak to their babies can influence the language acquisition in infants. Scientists have demonstrated that gender, experience and personality influence the way parents process the way they speak with their babies.Ev... |
10 August 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Have you ever had your iPhone/iPod touch‘s language changed by a malevolent friend that just stood there afterwards, watching you squirm while you were trying to understand Chinese? Or, even worse, have you ever changed your language by mistake and, after trying to change it back countless times, ended up at an... |
1 August 2010
05:51 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have said that there is no single area of the brain that is directly and solely responsible for our language capabilities. Naturally, some regions are more involved in the process than others, but a new investigation highlights that unexpected parts of the cortex can play an important part ... |
30 April 2010
08:48 GMT |
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A team of Belgian researchers recently published a new study, showing that any correlations that may be found between dyslexia and musical abilities are far-fetched, and not rooted in fact. They say that their extensive study of the hypothesized connection yielded no clear evidence to support the initial idea, and ad... |
9 April 2010
09:02 GMT |
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Most people have experienced this apparent memory lapse – you try to speak a word that you know it exists, and you know what it means, but you just cannot pronounce it. Your brain no longer seems capable of fixing itself precisely on the word you are looking for, and you spend some time until you finally rememb... |
26 February 2010
04:01 GMT |
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There are over 200 countries in the whole world and hundreds of languages and dialects. With the advancements in technology, no wonder that people needed to talk to each other in many languages and translation has become a necessity. Furthermore, various online translators have appeared, which make your life easier w... |
20 February 2010
12:31 GMT |
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According to a new study, it would appear that the prairie dog features the most complex form of language existent on the planet, save from our own. The small rodent may even communicate better than dolphins or whales, which were until now considered to be the epitome of animal language. Northern Arizona University (... |
2 February 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Everyone knows Apple keynotes are packed full with epithets, but just how many can elude the untrained eye. Enter “iPad Keynote in less than 180 Seconds: Incredible, Beautiful, Amazing!,” a video collage of the entire set of adjectives Steve Jobs and fellow execs used in a wear-and-tear manner during last... |
2 February 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Scientists were recently able to determine that people who drive and talk at the same time tend not to understand each other very well, or communicate efficiently. This is one of the few scientific studies not focused on the adverse effects that talking with someone, or over the phone, have on driving and safety on t... |
23 January 2010
03:57 GMT |
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“I think someone needs a bite of the reality sandwich” and “Let’s touch base on this offline” might be phrases that we could make sense of, but that would be like shooting arrows in the dark. Yet, they make a lot of sense for office workers in the UK, who are increasingly including them ... |
8 January 2010
14:21 GMT |
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English researchers in London have recently determined in a new study that our motor systems, which govern movements, tend to activate themselves automatically when we hear speech. They say that these newly found data could help experts understand and fight against a large number of speech difficulties in the near fu... |
23 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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James Cameron spent at least the past 12 years of his life working on his biggest pet project ever, a film that even he refers to as a massive “ego trip,” the upcoming “Avatar.” Dealing with the story of an alien civilization whose planet is being plundered by humans for its vast natural resou... |
15 December 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Soon after announcing that iPhone developer news had become available via RSS, Apple issued a new announcement saying that additional language support had been added to iTunes Connect, the service providing access to tools and resources for the distribution of iPhone and iPod touch applications through the App Store.... |
11 December 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Over millions of years, our species has developed an increasingly complex vocal apparatus, which has now placed us at the top, in terms of speech performance. While most higher mammals have the ability to produce sounds, such as roars and pearls, using their vocal chords, none of them is capable of generating articul... |
1 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Language is one of the things that constantly change, and not over the years, but several times in the course of an average life span. The engines behind these changes are the people, a researcher proposes, saying that the process through which language changes to reflect daily routines and actions is very similar to... |
27 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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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
06:44 GMT |
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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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