(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do words sound the way they do? For over a century, it has been a central tenet of linguistic theory that there is a completely arbitrary relationship between how a word sounds and what it means.
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Sep 13, 2011
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For decades, MIT has been widely held to have one of the best linguistics programs in the world. But what is linguistics and what does it teach us about human language? To learn more about the ways linguists help make a better ...
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Mar 28, 2019
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Language acquisition in children is one of the most fascinating features of the human species, as well as one of the most difficult problems in linguistics and cognitive science. What are the processes that enable a child ...
Education
Mar 28, 2024
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Two concepts—acquisition and learning—play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchangeably, in reality they embody two different processes in the development of communicative ...
Social Sciences
Aug 3, 2023
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New study shows early reading in any language helps children learn to read English.
Education
Sep 24, 2019
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When the iPhone launched in 2007, few could have predicted the impact it would have on education. One of the most powerful developments in education has been the arrival of language learning apps.
Software
Apr 29, 2014
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A robot analogous to a child between 6 and 14 months old can develop rudimentary linguistic skills through interaction with a human participant, as reported June 13 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
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Jun 13, 2012
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A love of Japanese culture has inspired a University of Derby student to design a computer game which teaches the language to gamers as they play.
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Mar 25, 2014
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When we speak, our enunciation and pronunciation of words and syllables fluctuates and varies from person to person. Given this, how do infants decode all of the spoken sounds they hear to learn words and meanings?
Social Sciences
May 18, 2011
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In a paper published in Profession, the Modern Language Association's journal about modern languages and literatures, a Saint Louis University professor discusses how he uses video games to teach Italian, allowing his students ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2018
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