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Chomsky has championed an approach which relies on our internal mental structures, arguing that meaning is in the head, not simply out there in the world by way of a word referring to some entity Via Nik Peachey
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
December 11, 2016 2:20 AM
A nice short summary of Chomsky's contribution.
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The rampant use of social media/texting slang by teenagers is largely due to increased accessibility to mobile phones. How does that effect writing skills? Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Jack Grieve is a computational linguist at Aston University in Birmingham, England.
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Of course, machine translation is still far from perfect. Despite its advances, GNMT can still mistranslate, particularly when it encounters proper names or rare words, which prompt the system to, again, translate individual words instead of looking at them within the context of the whole. Clearly, there is still a gap between human and machine translations, but with GNMT, it is getting smaller. Via Nik Peachey
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October 13, 2016 4:56 AM
A good thing for those in the language learning industry to keep up with. 
EI Design's curator insight,
October 17, 2016 6:31 AM
Google’s Neural Network for Language Translation Narrows Gap Between Machines & Humans
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They've been on the cutting edge of the English language since at least the 1500s
Chris Costa's curator insight,
September 9, 2015 2:37 PM
I find the social aspect of this absolutely fascinating; gender may be entirely a cultural construct, but we can see its influences in every aspect of human life. Women are responsible for 90 percent of linguistic changes that occur over the course of our lifetimes- because men resist such changes due to their (mostly) feminine origins. A good, witty read for those interested.
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"When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian). Minna Sundberg, creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent, a story set in a lushly imagined post-apocalyptic Nordic world, has drawn the antidote to the boring linguistic tree diagram."
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November 8, 2014 3:29 PM
Racines communes, connexions et interactions entre les langues sont visualisées dans cette infographie.
Infographie en haute définition: http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/196.jpg 
Sreya Ayinala's curator insight,
December 2, 2014 9:50 PM
Unit 3 Cultural Patterns and Processes (Language) The image shows how many languages are related and have many common ancestors. Languages are grouped into language families and are even more broadly categorized. Language is a huge part of culture and it is the way that people communicate amongst each other. There are hundreds of languages in our world, but as globalization and pop culture diffuse many languages are being lost and no longer spoken. A good example of a dead language would be Latin. Many of our common day languages trace their roots back to Latin, but no one speaks Latin anymore.
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An NPR feature which disccusses W. Pennebaker contribution to human use of words. This was also the subject of my own contribution to the 2010 World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies w... Via Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Rodolfo Maslias
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American English has a rich history of regionalisms — which sometimes tell us a lot about where we come from.
Tags: language, culture, English.
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October 5, 2015 4:14 PM
I found this article most interesting, having lived in RI, NJ, GA, IN, MD, and TX. After awhile, you will start to pick up certain words, while dropping other similar words that I have used all of my life. The words and phrases both tend to change from one state to another. Read the article, it is enlightening. Fred Issa,
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One more reason to put away the phone and just get a good night's sleep, already. Via Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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University of Oregon researchers have tapped the rhythm of memories as they occur in near real time in the human brain. Via Wendi Pillars
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June 5, 2014 12:29 PM
EEGs as a tool to track mental activity to uncover insights about memory processes. |
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The newly named Science Educator of the Year, Dr. Norbert Myslinski, has a message to share about neuroscience: "It's not just for the scientists."
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Kids are showing reading gains in dual-language classrooms. There may be underlying brain advantages at work.
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Chomsky’s ideas have profoundly affected linguistics and mind-science in general. Critics attacked his theories from the get-go and are still attacking, paradoxically demonstrating his enduring dominance. Some attacks are silly. For example, in his new book A Kingdom of Speech Tom Wolfe asserts that both Darwin and “Noam Charisma” were wrong. Via Nik Peachey
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It's really easy to use. You just cut and paste or type in the text you want to use in the left hand side, click on 'Transcribe' and the text appears on the right with the phonetic writing underneath each line. You can then cut and paste to a document if you want to save it. Via Nik Peachey
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November 18, 2016 12:51 AM
Great tool that can convert text into phonemic script - then uses text to speech to read it.
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Electronic toys appear to reduce the amount of interaction between parents and children, which could slow their language development. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Our brains require stimulation and connection to survive and thrive. A brain without connection to other brains and without sufficient challenge will shrink and eventually die—moreover, the modern human brain’s primary environment is our matrix of social relationships.
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November 14, 2015 1:25 AM
Recommended reading for anyone involved in education. 
Ra's curator insight,
November 14, 2015 6:42 PM
Make the connection - tune the kids into how their brain works
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"As languages change, so do pronunciations. This list from our friends at Vocabulary.com contains ten words that have gone through relatively recent shifts in pronunciation or whose spelling is a mystery unless one knows a bit about the history of how they were pronounced ..." ©
Via Leona Ungerer, Rodolfo Maslias
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Speaking with someone with aphasia? Have patience! #AphasiaAwareness #facesofaphasia pic.twitter.com/OlJhYOTsI2
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June 10, 2015 9:16 AM
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