News tagged with native language
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How social media help save an endangered language
(PhysOrg.com) -- There was a time when everyone living in Michigan grew up speaking the native language of the area's indigenous people. Now less than 10 people born in the state are fluent, yet more than 2,700 people "like" ...
Feb 21, 2012 |
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'Talking dictionaries' document vanishing languages
Digital technology is coming to the rescue of some of the world's most endangered languages. Linguists from National Geographic's Enduring Voices project who are racing to document and revitalize struggling languages are ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Language learning through hip-hop music
Listeners can learn new vocabulary through hip-hop music, even though the lyrics may be difficult to understand, according to a study published in the Dec. 21 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2011 |
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New home movies resurrect endangered American Indian language
University of Minnesota Duluth education professor Mary Hermes says saving an endangered language goes beyond just enriching the people who speak it.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2011 |
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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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Allowing native language in school benefits Mexican-American students, researcher finds
A new University of Missouri study shows that Mexican-American students who identify and practice speaking their native language have higher grades than those who are put in English-only environments in their schools.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Language speed versus efficiency: Is faster better?
A recent study of the speech information rate of seven languages concludes that there is considerable variation in the speed at which languages are spoken, but much less variation in how efficiently languages communicate ...
Sep 01, 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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A virtual Babylonian comeback 2,000 years after disappearence of natives
Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Second language learners recall native language when reading
(PhysOrg.com) -- Adults fluent in English whose first language is Chinese retrieve their native language when reading in English, according to new research in the June 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This study sugges ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 01, 2010 |
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The sound of silence: an end to noisy communications
It has happened to almost everyone. You are sitting on a train or a bus and someone right next to you is annoyingly shouting into his or her mobile phone.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Microsoft helps languages talk tech
Microsoft on Monday took steps to help local languages avoid being lost on the ever-changing computer technology landscape.
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Linguist uses Internet to study how we say things
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mats Rooth, a Cornell linguist, will use software to study distinctions of prosody (rhythm, stress and intonation) in language by hunting for word patterns on the Internet.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Foreign subtitles improve speech perception
Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitt's southern accent in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 11, 2009 |
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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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