News tagged with linguistic structures
Language diversity will make London a true global player
Understanding linguistic diversity among London's schoolchildren is key for the city's future as a 'global player', research shows. A study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) mapped the distribution ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 10, 2012 |
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Computers learn to spot 'opinion spam' in online reviews
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you read online reviews before purchasing a product or service, you may not always be reading the truth. Review sites are becoming targets for "opinion spam" -- phony positive reviews created by sellers ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 26, 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, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Undocumented language found hidden in India
A "hidden" language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka culture, a tribal ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 05, 2010 |
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The sound and the query: Why do questions take the form they do?
In linguistic terms, a question is largely the re-ordering of a statement. Shuffle the words around, make a couple of other changes, and "John rode a horse" becomes "What did John ride?"
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2010 |
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What's the semantic organization of human language?
A Chinese semantic network with semantic (argument structure) annotation was built and investigated for finding its global statistical properties. The results show that semantic network is also small-world and scale-free ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Do bilingual persons have distinct language areas in the brain?
A new study carried out at the University of Haifa sheds light on how first and second languages are represented in the brain of a bilingual person. A unique single case study that was tested by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Geneticists publish largest-ever study on African genetics revealing origins, migration
African, American, and European researchers working in collaboration over a 10-year period have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data--more than four million genotypes--providing a library of new information ...
Apr 30, 2009 |
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