A readability analysis of presidential candidate speeches by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) finds most candidates using words and grammar typical of students in grades 6-8, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2016
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A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the verb second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people acquire language.
Social Sciences
Dec 16, 2015
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The English grammar school system has widened the gap between rich and poor, according to a new study published today.
Social Sciences
May 29, 2014
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When it comes to numbers, Russian grammar has a bewildering thicket of rules. A singular noun such as "table" ("stol" in Russian), used as the subject of a sentence, takes a special "case form" called the nominative singular. ...
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2014
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A new language has been discovered in a remote Indigenous community in northern Australia that is generated from a unique combination of elements from other languages. Light Warlpiri has been documented by University of Michigan ...
Social Sciences
Jun 18, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Wikipedia's remarkable accuracy and usefulness comes from something larger than the sum of its written contributions, a new study by SFI Research Fellow Simon DeDeo finds.
Computer Sciences
Mar 28, 2013
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Forty years ago, Jeffry Pelletier, now a University of Alberta philosophy and linguistics researcher, challenged a fundamental tenet of English grammar in his doctoral dissertation. In trying to show that natural languages—such ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2013
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When writing or speaking, good grammar helps people make themselves be understood. But when used to concoct a long computer password, grammar—good or bad—provides crucial hints that can help someone crack that password, ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 24, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Hand-held technology can help to improve primary pupils' learning of grammar, according to a new study by the Institute for Effective Education (IEE) at the University of York.
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2012
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Just a quarter of eighth and 12th grade students in the United States have solid writing skills, even when allowed to use spell-check and other computer word processing tools.
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2012
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