News tagged with sentences
Figures of speech -- understanding idioms requires both sides of the brain
Is it better to treat someone with kid gloves or to treat them carefully? Researchers in Italy have investigated how the brain recognises that the first phrase means the same as the second. Publishing in the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Ted Bundy's DNA added to database in hope of solving cold cases
The DNA profile of Ted Bundy, one of the United States' most notorious serial killers, was uploaded Friday into a national database in the hope that the new material will help solve murder cases that have gone cold over the ...
Aug 07, 2011 |
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Historical context guides language development
Not only do we humans enjoy talking -- and talking a lot -- we also do so in very different ways: about 6,000 languages are spoken today worldwide. How this wealth of expression developed, however, largely remains a mystery. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
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 ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Imitating someone's accent makes it easier to understand them
In conversation, we often imitate each other's speech style and may even change our accent to fit that of the person we're talking to. A recent study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Scienc ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 06, 2010 |
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What if we used poetry to teach computers to speak better?
A better understanding of how we use acoustic cues to stress new information and put old information in the background may help computer programmers produce more realistic-sounding speech.
Nov 18, 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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Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case
A 28-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking into corporate computer networks and carrying out what US officials have described as the largest credit card theft in US history.
Dec 29, 2009 |
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fMRI scans used in murder trial sentencing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Gov't won't classify proxies as 'sophisticated' (Update)
(AP) -- The U.S. government has dropped - for now - a plan to classify the use of "proxy" servers as evidence of sophistication in committing a crime.
Apr 15, 2009 |
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US mulls stiffer sentences for common Net proxies
(AP) -- "Proxy" servers are an everyday part of Internet surfing. But using one in a crime could soon lead to more time in the clink.
Apr 14, 2009 |
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How we think before we speak: Making sense of sentences
We engage in numerous discussions throughout the day, about a variety of topics, from work assignments to the Super Bowl to what we are having for dinner that evening. We effortlessly move from conversation to conversation, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Can networked human computation solve computer language comprehension?
Researchers at the University of Essex hope to answer this question by getting more volunteers to take part in their online game, Phrase Detectives.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Psychologists examine how race affects juvenile sentencing
When it comes to holding children accountable for crimes they commit, race matters.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 24, 2012 |
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Armenia jails Russian computer virus 'mastermind'
A court in Armenia on Tuesday gave a four-year jail sentence to the alleged Russian mastermind behind a computer virus crime group which infected some 30 million computers worldwide.
May 22, 2012 |
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