William Shakespeare used the word "dotage" to capture reduced mental ability (as in being blindly in love) rather than as a quaint term for old age, "successes" were really outcomes—one could talk of a "bad success"—and ...
Education
Aug 23, 2023
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What's the winning number for next week's Mega Millions? If Julie knew the number, Leah would know the number.
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2023
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Pop culture abounds with examples of very fast talkers. There's the Judy Grimes character played by Kristen Wiig on "Saturday Night Live," or that guy from the 1980s who did commercials for Micro Machines and FedEx. Of course, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2023
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Numerous studies highlight vocabulary as a critical predictor determining word and text reading comprehension in monolingual and bilingual children, but when measuring vocabulary, most studies focus on either breadth or depth, ...
Education
Aug 21, 2023
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Just watched a rom-com on Netflix? Well, now there are "top picks" just like it in your queue, thanks to the streaming service's matching system.
Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2023
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It's a difficult, impressive feat on its own to help children work through speech problems. It's even more inspiring when you take into account the bridge of language itself.
Education
Aug 17, 2023
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The simple view of reading (SVR) is a widely accepted theory that attempts to define the skills that contribute to early reading comprehension. It attributes a person's reading comprehension ability to two skills—word recognition ...
Education
Aug 17, 2023
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Languages around the world differ greatly in how many grammatical distinctions they make. This variation is observable even between closely related languages. The speakers of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, for example, use ...
Social Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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Pedro de la Cruz stands beside his stranded boat and supplicates his God, lifting his arms and praying anxiously for rain to replenish Lake Titicaca, the massive body of water at a breath-sapping altitude in the Andes on ...
Environment
Aug 15, 2023
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Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of fragments of ancient languages and analyzing how they ...
Archaeology
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