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Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essenceOn 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 of these three languages are vastly different; many of their rules of grammar diverge too.
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Babble Of Baby Reveals Language SkillsChildren 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 according to a new study. Studies conducted during the last 25 years have shown that ...
Calvin Smith
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Lost in Translation: Five Words We Should Import | The In-Between Spaces | Fast CompanyPeople often ask me if I collect anything. I do, but it's not a tangible collection the way a collection of toy figurines, or Swiss posters, or snowglobes would. I "collect" words that aren't translatable in English. Not just unusual words, but words that are don't have an equivalent in ...
Al Wood
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Gene Associated With Language, Speech And Reading Disorders IdentifiedGene Associated With Language, Speech And Reading Disorders Identified ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2009) — A new candidate gene for Specific Language Impairment has been identified by a research team directed by Mabel Rice at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with Shelley Smith, ...
Al Wood
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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Logic and language are not the same thingSome theorists have even gone so far as to argue that language and logical thought are one and the same thing. A new brain imaging study challenges this notion by showing that logical inferences based on simple "not", "or", "if", "then" terms activate a separate, though overlapping, network of ...
Al Wood
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Revista CritérioIts a shame that it is in portuguese, and not everyone knows this amazing language... but even so... give it a try,heimdall added 3 months ago
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23WorldChanging: The Survival of Languages in a Digital AgeThis is a well meant but not very well researched article. It gives the example of Ewe as a minority language. Ewe is a national language and has over 3 million speakers, so it is hardly a minority language in much danger. There are thousands of languages in a much worse state than Ewe.Al Wood added 14 months ago
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The FrameNet ProjectCertainly the more specific frame information in FrameNet has the potential to be useful for inference, as long as the people defining the frames get things right. (Full disclosure: I used to work on the FrameNet project.) But the projects are so similar, and the kind of information that they're ...Christopher Johnson added 16 months ago
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The FrameNet ProjectDefinitely the future is with semantic parsing. The question is whether FrameNet's rather deep approach is superior to more shallow semantics efforts, like PropBank?Pavel Velikhov added 16 months ago
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Grand AvenueSorry! The page you have requested can not be found or is no longer available.María Luisa Gómez added 17 months ago
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