Of course they are!! Using nine different languages, delegates at the Trinity College Carmarthen conference explain why it is worth keeping alive dialects that are sometimes only spoken by a handful of people.
Click here to read in full this interesting report.
'A Linguist's Language' has every and all things language. Whether it's new developments in language revitalization, language planning, language learning, or fun quirks about English or other languages, or interesting etymologies, or even information or updates on the status of Australian Aboriginal languages, this site is dedicated to all languages of the world, with lots of (fun) information about almost anything to do with languages and cultures.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
The Brain Speaks: Scientists Decode Words from Brain Signals
In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain.
Click here to read the full study & report at Science Daily
Click here to read the full study & report at Science Daily
Friday, September 3, 2010
Eye Movements Reveal Readers' Wandering Minds
It’s not just you…everybody zones out when they’re reading. For a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, scientists recorded eye movements during reading and found that the eyes keep moving when the mind wanders—but they don’t move in the same way as they do when you’re paying attention.
Click here to read the full report at Science Daily
Click here to read the full report at Science Daily
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