Although recent election coverage may suggest otherwise, research shows that people are more likely to use positive words than negative words on the whole in their communications. Behavioral scientists have extensively documented ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2016
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Any child (or spouse) who has been scolded for their tone of voice – such as shouting or being sarcastic – knows that the way you speak to someone can be just as important as the words that you use. Voice artists and ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2017
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How do language families evolve over many thousands of years? How stable over time are structural features of languages? Researchers Dan Dediu and Stephen Levinson from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen ...
Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2012
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In linguistic terms, a question is largely the re-ordering of a statement. Shuffle the words around, make a couple of other changes, and "John rode a horse" becomes "What did John ride?"
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2010
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Computers are great at treating words as data: Word-processing programs let you rearrange and format text however you like, and search engines can quickly find a word anywhere on the Web. But what would it mean for a computer ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 12, 2011
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Commodore 64, the hottest-selling personal computer in the 1980s, is back - with the same bulky breadbox look but updated with the latest technology.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 8, 2011
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Every language has its own collection of phonemes, or the basic phonetic units from which spoken words are composed. Depending on how you count, English has somewhere between 35 and 45. Knowing a language's phonemes can make ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 14, 2015
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The origin of Yiddish, the millennium old language of Ashkenazic Jews, is something which linguists have questioned for decades.
Biotechnology
Apr 19, 2016
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The emoticons used on Twitter are a language in themselves and are taking on new and often surprising meanings of their own, according to new research.
Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2011
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Voice recording for memos, interviews and lectures has moved - like so many tasks - to the smartphone. These applications help you save, or transcribe, the spoken word.
Software
Dec 23, 2011
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