News tagged with mother tongue
Reading Arabic isn't easy
A series of studies published in Neuropsychology has shown that because of the visual complexity of Arabic orthography, the brain's right hemisphere is not involved in decoding the text in the first stages of learning to rea ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Babies' language learning starts from the womb
(PhysOrg.com) -- From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study published online on November 5th in Current Biology, a Cell Press ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 05, 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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'Queen's English' not the best
Native English speakers should give up their claim to be the guardians of the purest form of the language and accept that the ways it is used and changed by millions around the world are equally valid.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Infants raised in bilingual environments can distinguish unfamiliar languages: research
Infants raised in households where Spanish and Catalan are spoken can discriminate between English and French just by watching people speak, even though they have never been exposed to these new languages before, according ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Bilinguals find it easier to learn a third language
The study also found that Russian speakers had a better grasp of Hebrew than Hebrew speakers themselves. "Learning a mother tongue and preserving it does not compromise the ability to learn an additional language. The opposite ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Children in formal child care have better language skills
Fewer children who attend regular formal centre- and family-based child care at 1.5 years and 3 years of age were late talkers compared with children who are looked after at home by a parent, child-carer or in an outdoor ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 05, 2011 |
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