News tagged with spoken language
Intel backs ultra-light laptops with new age controls
US chip giant Intel on Monday heralded a coming wave of affordable high-powered, thin laptops that could double as tablet computers and be controlled by gestures or spoken commands.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 09, 2012 |
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'Look at that!' -- ravens use gestures, too
Pointing and holding up objects in order to attract attention has so far only been observed in humans and our closest living relatives, the great apes. Simone Pika from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Thomas ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Computer scientist seeks the real meaning of language
Better be careful about telling a lie to Julia Hirschberg. The computer science professor, an expert in spoken language, examines what people unconsciously communicate through such things as intonation, accent ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Sign languages help us understand the nature of metaphors
A recent study of the use of metaphors in spoken language and various sign languages shows that certain types of metaphors are difficult to convey in sign language. The study, "Iconicity and metaphor: Constraints on metaphorical ...
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Sign language speakers' hands, mouths operate separately
When people are communicating in sign languages, they also move their mouths. But scientists have debated whether mouth movements resembling spoken language are part of the sign itself or are connected directly to English. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Human brain becomes tuned to voices and emotional tone of voice during infancy
New research finds that the brains of infants as young as 7 months old demonstrate a sensitivity to the human voice and to emotions communicated through the voice that is remarkably similar to what is observed in the brains ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Google developing a translator for smartphones
(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is developing a translator for its Android smartphones that aims to almost instantly translate from one spoken language to another during phone calls.
Feb 09, 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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What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker?
Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a native language. This has been shown in a new study by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Dialect Detectives
(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology under development by Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo and his colleagues at Lincoln Laboratory may lead to a dialect identification system that compensates for a translator's inexperience ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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