In many European countries, adding subtitles in a foreign movie in the native tongue of their residents is a standard norm. Experts who devised this system many years ago said that this would help the masses get to know a second language, by creating associations between the words and the text. But a new investigatio... |
11 November 2009
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Speaking to unborn children may be more important than once thought, scientists have recently revealed. They say that children appear to be learning how language works even when inside the womb. Naturally, they cannot talk immediately after they are born, as the vocal chords and the speech center of the brain need to... |
6 November 2009
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Anthony Aristar, a professor of linguistics at the Eastern Michigan University, and Lyle Campbell, also a professor of linguistics and the director of the Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL) at the University of Utah have recently decided to organize the world's first-ever workshop featuring a large numb... |
2 November 2009
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Aramaic is one of the oldest languages on the planet, and it is classified as part of the Afroasiatic language family. The Semitic language's history extends back 3,000 years, during which time it had been used to administer empires, to worship the gods, and also as the language of the commoners, during the Seco... |
15 October 2009
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A collaboration between German and British experts, from the Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging, respectively, has recently yielded a new class of algorithms that their creators hope will make computers able to recognize spoken language ... |
15 August 2009
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The southern Asian continent was an area rich in developed civilizations thousands of years ago, which spoke numerous languages and dialects and left behind impressive monuments to attest for their worth. At this point, however, the archaeological and linguistic remains are so scarce, that experts can't even fig... |
24 April 2009
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Being subjected to two languages at once seems to have a very beneficial effect on infants, a new scientific study shows. After just a few months, they are able to understand learning cues far more efficiently than their peers from single-language households, a trait that they keep throughout their lives. Experts are... |
14 April 2009
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Investigators at the Reading University now believe they've discovered the most ancient words in the English language, with the help of a sophisticated computer simulation. The program accounts for the rate of change that has been recorded throughout history for German and other related languages such as English... |
26 February 2009
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We all know that brilliant minds are everywhere around us, and that, among those minds, there are some that stand out like a single star in the night sky. Unfortunately, many of these extremely bright and endowed scientists suffer from harsh forms of autism that do not allow them to communicate very well with the out... |
8 January 2009
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Ta-ta-da-daaaa! (fanfare band sounds) Gmail, the fastest growing email service on the Internet, provided by Google, revamped last autumn, is finally finding its way onto our computers in our own languages. Perhaps a herald needs some special training, I don't think I was able to underline the importance of this ... |
14 February 2008
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The blogging community is one of the most important for Google as they provide a lot of traffic going the Mountain View based company's way and a lot of ad exposure to the Internet users. By providing a "home" for the bloggers with creating… erm… Blogger, the Internet company has in fact extended its reputation ... |
18 January 2008
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