News tagged with grammatical structure
Computing, Sudoku-style
When Alexey Radul began graduate work at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2003, he was interested in natural-language processing -- designing software that could understand ordinary ...
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Apr 28, 2010 |
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OUP research reveals children's imaginative language use
Innovative use of language, a firm grasp of technology, and a thirst for unusual words are just some of the findings revealed about how children use language according to new Oxford University Press (OUP) ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 29, 2012 |
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Cornell researchers striving to understand memorable movie quotes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some movie quotes stand out and stick not just in our minds, but in the minds of many? “I’ll be back,” spoken by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the original Terminator movie, ...
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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Unique languages, universal patterns: Linguist reveals how modern English resembles Old Japanese
You don’t have to be a language maven to find the direct object in a basic English-language sentence. Just look next to the verb. Take a simple sentence: “I gave a book to Mary.” In this case ...
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Start-up finds online meaning
(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developed at Oxford University that accurately assesses what people mean from what they say online will provide a valuable ‘sentiment analysis’ tool for businesses, particularly ...
Feb 15, 2012 |
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The -s plural marker is not a foreign import into the German language
The Anglicization of the German language can be seen throughout the country and is often disparaged as a form of foreign infiltration. It is indeed true that ever more English words are finding their way into ...
Dec 23, 2011 |
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Trimming time in the stacks
A sophisticated text-analyzing tool developed by a UC Berkeley graduate student could speed literary searches for humanities scholars and other researchers.
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Dec 21, 2011 |
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Pupils taught to love grammar get better results
(PhysOrg.com) -- In what is believed to be the first major study to demonstrate that the teaching of grammar can improve children’s overall writing capabilities, researchers found a quantifiable benefit ...
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Sep 07, 2011 |
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Finches use their own form of grammar in their tweets
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Kyoto in Japan have discovered that the tweets of Bengalese finches follow a set of grammatical patter ...
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Is culture or cognition really responsible for language structure?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Linguistic study has been, for many years, divided into two main theories - those following the belief of Noam Chomsky’s universal grammar and that of Joseph Greenberg’s linguistic universal. However, ...
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Apr 14, 2011 |
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Italian for beginners: Four-month-olds can detect grammatical rules in new language
(PhysOrg.com) -- Infants are able to learn grammatical regularities in a novel language surprisingly early and at a remarkable speed. In a study at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...
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Mar 23, 2011 |
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