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For those who wonder what the connection between butterfly eggs and childhood #speech disorders may be, the authors are arguing against the classifications currently used by most clinicians*. They claim some diagnostic categories do not reflect actual differences between disorders believed to be distinct in nature (i.e., they would emerge due to different underlying mechanisms), but rather different phases of the same developmental trajectory.

*at least in the US and English-speaking world

#linguistics #LanguageScience #LanguageDevelopment #SpeechDisorders #SpeechLanguageTherapy #SpeechLanguagePathology #CognitiveScience #phonetics

Claire Boilley Jan 24

#OutOfContextScience just for fun! Today: unicorns against education. 🦄🚫🎓

#phonetics #LanguageScience #language #linguistics

Anthropology.net Nov 18

New research using a global dataset of 1,700 languages reveals that about one-third of proposed grammatical universals hold up under evolutionary testing. A fresh look at the deep patterns shaping human communication. #Linguistics #Anthropology #Evolution #LanguageScience https://www.anthropology.net/p/patterns-beneath-the-noise-what-a

Patterns Beneath the Noise: What a Massive Global Dataset Is Teaching Us About the Deep Structure of Human Grammar

New computational work suggests that some of the world’s most persistent grammatical patterns are not accidents of history but stable outcomes of how humans make meaning.

Anthropology.net

Claire Boilley Nov 10

Votre dernier polar vous a fait froid dans le dos ? 😨

"Des scientifiques du Laboratoire de psychologie et neurocognition (#LPNC - #CNRS / #UGA / #USMB ont montré que lire des phrases évoquant des sensations, comme « ça me brûle » ou « j’ai froid », réactive les mêmes zones cérébrales que lors d’une véritable expérience sensorielle. [...] lire, c’est aussi ressentir."

🧠📚 💭🔥 🧊
https://www.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/francais/lire-c-est-aussi-ressentir-les-mots-1666729.kjsp?RH=2320611992734654

#neuroscience #LanguageScience #psychology #psychologie #cognition #CognitiveScience #UniversiteGrenobleAlpes

Lire c’est aussi ressentir les mots - Université Grenoble Alpes

Des scientifiques du Laboratoire de psychologie et neurocognition (LPNC - CNRS / UGA / USMB) ont montré que lire des phrases évoquant des sensations, comme « ça me brûle » ou « j’ai froid », réactive les mêmes zones cérébrales que lors d’une véritable expérience sensorielle. Grâce à des enregistrements intracérébraux, ils ont observé que l’insula postérieure s’active très rapidement (environ 170 ms) et de façon spécifique aux phrases liées aux sensations corporelles. Ces résultats suggèrent que la compréhension du langage passe aussi par la réactivation de nos expériences corporelles — lire, c’est aussi ressentir.

Université Grenoble Alpes

Bala Danmeri Sep 17, 2023

#LanguageScience Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/how-learning-thinking-in-a-foreign-language-improves-decision-making?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories

The Guardian

Peter Tóth Dec 12, 2022

The Conversation Indonesia: When did humans first start to speak? How language evolved in Africa.

Research carried out for this study indicates that the first speech sounds were uttered about 70,000 years ago, and not hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago, as is sometimes claimed in the literature.

#archaeology #LanguageScience #Fediscience

https://theconversation.com/when-did-humans-first-start-to-speak-how-language-evolved-in-africa-194372

When did humans first start to speak? How language evolved in Africa

The first speech sounds were uttered about 70,000 years ago and not hundreds of thousands of years ago as is sometimes claimed.

The Conversation

Licenciado (Graduate)Oct 12, 2020

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, commemorates the Day of the Spanish Language. Official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. 語言科學。🇺🇸 🇸🇦 🇨🇳 🇪🇸 🇨🇵 🇷🇺 ✍️ 🇻🇪 . Apocalypse 5:9.
#GodGivesKnowledge
#LanguageScience
#VenezuelaPreeminentCountry
#VenezuelaMyBelovedCountry Graduate-DM-UNEFA. Carlos Sánchez.