(PhysOrg.com) -- An article in this month's Current Anthropology challenges the controversial idea that Island Southeast Asia was settled 5,000 years ago by a migration of farmers from Taiwan.
Archaeology
Apr 9, 2010
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Native English speakers should give up their claim to be the guardians of the purest form of the language and accept that the ways it is used and changed by millions around the world are equally valid.
Social Sciences
Nov 2, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory of meaning has the potential to revolutionise many artificial intelligence technologies and enable web searches that interpret the meaning of queries, according to its developer, a computer scientist ...
Mathematics
Sep 26, 2011
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Does the mother or father have a stronger influence on their children's language? The mother tongue hypothesis suggests that language usage follows matrilineal inheritance. The father tongue hypothesis holds that paternal ...
Social Sciences
Aug 20, 2018
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(Phys.org) -- There is strong evidence to support the discovery of a new European language.
Social Sciences
Jun 18, 2012
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A Chinese semantic network with semantic (argument structure) annotation was built and investigated for finding its global statistical properties. The results show that semantic network is also small-world and scale-free ...
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2009
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Using a database of 130,000 Yelp reviews of restaurants in Washington, D.C., two professors and a graduate student at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business have identified a method that allows software ...
Economics & Business
Dec 17, 2014
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The study of linguistics is not a laughing matter -- unless you happen to have Stan Dubinsky as your professor. The University of South Carolina linguist has been sharing jokes and puns and cartoons with students for more ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2012
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Digital technology is coming to the rescue of some of the world's most endangered languages. Linguists from National Geographic's Enduring Voices project who are racing to document and revitalize struggling languages are ...
Other
Feb 17, 2012
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African, American, and European researchers working in collaboration over a 10-year period have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data--more than four million genotypes--providing a library of new information ...
Other
Apr 30, 2009
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