Language is the foundation of human interaction. It plays a central role in facilitating effective communication by allowing people to express their thoughts, share essential information and establish connections with one ...
Social Sciences
Jan 3, 2024
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Cockney and received pronunciation (Queen's English) were once spoken by people of all ages, but they are no longer commonly spoken among young people in the south-east of England.
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2023
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Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities should be given equal opportunities to learn languages, a new report argues.
Education
Aug 25, 2023
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There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us about our history, our cognitive abilities and what it means to ...
Social Sciences
Apr 22, 2023
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Everyone has an accent. But the intelligibility of speech doesn't just depend on that accent; it also depends on the listener. Visual cues and the diversity of the listener's social network can impact their ability to understand ...
Social Sciences
May 24, 2022
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Over 6,000 languages are currently spoken worldwide, but a substantial minority—well over 5%—are in danger of dying out. It is perhaps surprising that this fraction is no higher, as most models have so far predicted that ...
Social Sciences
Apr 22, 2020
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Within a week of the Salzburg Global Seminar's Statement for a Multilingual World launching in February 2018, the document – which calls for policies and practices that support multilingualism – had received 1.5m social ...
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2019
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The 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) is in full gear and climate change is again on everyone's mind. It conjures up images of melting glaciers, rising sea levels, droughts, flooding, threatened habitats, endangered species, ...
Social Sciences
Dec 10, 2015
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Google has set out to save the world's dying languages.
Internet
Jun 21, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European scientists have developed groundbreaking technology to enable machine translation using statistical analysis. Now linguistic diversity can be found in translation.
Software
Jun 1, 2010
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