An investigation of Twitter messages reveals new insights and tools for studying how people use stretched words, such as "duuuuude," "heyyyyy," or "noooooooo." Tyler Gray and colleagues at the University of Vermont in Burlington ...
Social Sciences
May 27, 2020
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On Feb. 11, in Geneva, the head of the World Health Organization unveiled the name of a new disease.
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Apr 14, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of York has found that bedtime might be the best time for children with poor vocabulary skills to learn new written vocabulary words. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society ...
When I was younger I decided to learn Greek. I learned the letter-sound correspondences and could say the words—the sounds, that is. But although I could and still can decode these words, I can't actually read Greek because ...
Education
Nov 12, 2019
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A new study reveals that in a number of varieties of English spoken in Scotland, the rules of contraction (it's for it is) seem to differ unexpectedly, and asserts that such differences may shed new light on our understanding ...
Social Sciences
Aug 8, 2019
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About one in five people is considered to be low literate or illiterate, unable to read or write simple statements. Low literacy can be due to reading impairments such as dyslexia or little or no reading practice. For developing ...
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May 13, 2019
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Ask the average Kiwi on the street about Māori words in New Zealand English, and most will tell you that more and more are being used in everyday language.
Social Sciences
Apr 18, 2019
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Words are often seen as the building blocks of languages. But as children we don't learn lists of words like we might in a school language class. We learn longer strings of sounds and break them up into words as we grow up. ...
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2019
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A scholar from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has developed a new series of games that can be used to train and test children's reading, writing and word identification skills at an early age.
Education
Mar 27, 2019
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In a recent article here at ScienceNordic & Forskerzonen, we argued that this year's U.N. initiative International Year of Indigenous Languages is urgently needed in light of the global decline of minority and indigenous ...
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Feb 25, 2019
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