Category: Language
(I have been meaning to post this for about two weeks, so if it is a bit dated forgive me.) Dyslexia is a learning disability characterized by slower reading skills acquisition, and it is associated with certain structural abnormalities in...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:58 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Language
Language Log details the results of this fascinating experiment. The researcher was looking at second language acquisition, and in order to have a control she tested the native-speakers on the gender of particular words in French. The assumption would be...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:11 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Erez Lieberman et al. at Harvard are looking at the rate of change in words to see if words evolve: Lieberman was struck by this idea when he learned that the ten most common verbs in English (be, have, do,...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:29 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Language
In which a boy wakes up after an infection with a new accent.
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:02 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Language
Baboons show handedness in communicative gestures, tending to be right-handed. This paper analyzed the handedness of baboons to see if they were more likely to use their right or their left hands for communication....
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:48 PM • 0 Comments •