Archive for November, 2004
04-11-20
Tags: Vivian Cook : Writing System Home Writing System Vivian Cook
is one of the best resources on writing systems I can find.
Nonetheless, it does not have a section on how different languages uses
spaces (and other devices, including hyphens, which is talked about
here) to mark "word" boundaries.
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04-11-20
Tags: A Original Title: LG345 The English Writing Syllabus Writing
course on the English orthography is surprisingly unique.
Vivian
Cook teaches the course and wrote a book about it (Vivian
Cook (2004) The English Writing System,
Arnold).
Writing System
System Home Vivian
Cook
Not taught by Vivian Cook at Essex after 2003/2004
systems in different languages […]
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04-11-20
Tags: Original URL:
Which type of language fosters children's morphological awareness? I'd
say either then analytic or the agglutinative. In both cases the root
word/morpheme stays unchanged phonologically (and orthographically).
Synthetic languages, including English, will be hard, as there are
fewer clear markers of morphemes. This is related to the complexity of
the English writing system, which, according to Chomsky and […]
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04-11-20
Tags: Original URL: Berries have linguistic significance. Differ in their taste and
familarity, berries (and alike) have names that vary in morphological
compositioin. Some, like strawberry, are composed of two free morphemes; others have cranberry morphemes. While luke in lukewarm has nothing to do with the hero in Star Wars, boysen in boysenberry was a person.
Berries seem […]
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04-11-20
Tags: Original URL: The observation highlighted below is very interesting — one would Agglutination In linguistics, agglutination is the morphological process of adding affixes to the […]
think just the opposite. Just because affixes are prominate in the
language, one would predict a more developed "awareness" of morphology.
Think … think … think.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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04-11-19
Tags: Original URL: Electronically poking your brain, that's what we need in this science. Journal Of Neurosurgery Volume 101, Issue 5 This Document Abstract-MEDLINE Actions Cited By Save as Citation Alert E-mail Article Export Citation […]
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November 2004,
Pages 787-798
ISSN: 0022-3085
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04-11-18
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McAfee is put on every computer that goes through AAS as part of the default installation. For my eye tracking machine, I do not want any extra
process to be running, so this morning I decided to check out the AV
software to see what it actually does. A lot! Not only does it
scans ever active process […]
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04-11-17
Tags: Original URL: Spellings, who likes to be "behind the scene", was a major force behind […]
the NCLB and the accountability system. A good political lobbist and
advisor she might be, where is the evidence that she knows where
American education should go (other than serving the needs of her
client/boss)?
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04-11-17
Tags: Original URL: This should be good enough HCRD2R Double Screw Clamp Adjustable 11.5" to 15 (4
lbs) US
$ 180.50
Clamp opening accommodates table thickness up to 2.5"
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04-11-16
Tags: Original URL: The TextExtended program from SR Research is convoluted and buggy,
particularly when it comes to Unicode support. Micro$oft is probably
the one to blame, when its Visual C has at least two sets of functions
for each proc that deals with string operations and file IO. Everthing
depends on #def UNICODE, and you cannot mix ASCII and […]
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04-11-15
Tags: http://books.nap.edu/html/prdyc/ch10.html#FOOT4 Concepts of print are a set of understandings about the
conventions of literacy, e.g., directionality, intentionality, stability,
use of blank spaces and letters, and multiple genres and uses.
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04-11-15
Tags: Victoria Purcell-GatesShe moved to Michigan State in 1999-2000 (and her AERA 2004 registration says Michigan State), but she is not on the Teacher Eduction Dept's roster.
Victoria Purcell-Gates, Ph.D.
(University of California at Berkeley) comes to the College of
Education from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. She
is a professor in the Department of Teacher Education. Dr.
Purcell-Gates […]
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04-11-15
Tags: Original URL: Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice theories? Sounds great. Let's see…
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04-11-15
Tags: Original URL: Duke does not have access to this article. UNC does. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
Volume 2001, Issue 92
, Pages 7 - 22
Special Issue: The Role of Family Literacy Environments in Promoting Young Children's Emerging Literacy Skills
. Issue Edited by Pia Rebello Britto, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
Published Online: 22 Feb 2002
Copyright © 2001 […]
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04-11-15
Tags: Original URL: A search on Intentionality and emergent literacy landed me on this. V. Allan Luke, University of Queensland […]
Purcell-Gates has self-cited several papers of hers on the point of
intentionality of print, mostly in the low SES context. However, I am
not aware of research from a cognitive point of view.
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04-11-15
Tags:
NASA will attempt Mach 10 today.
Image at right: Guinness World Records
formally recognized the NASA Hyper-X world speed record with this
certificate and inclusion of the record into its database. Image:
Guinness World Records.
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04-11-14
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Prof Susan GATHERCOLE Professor
Contact Details: Email: s.e.gathercole@durham.ac.uk |
Phone: x43255 / 40432 | Fax: +44 (0)191 3343241 | Room: 71
/ E005 | Personal WWW: http://www.dur.ac.uk/s.e.gathercole/
I am a cognitive psychologist
with particular interests in the area of short-term memory function and how it
relates to everyday cognition including the acquisition of language. Recent and
current research projects have focussed on […]
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04-11-14
Tags: Page 4, click the picture to see hi-res version.
Gathercole, S.E. (1999).
Cognitive approaches to the development of short-term memory.
Trends in Cognitive Science,
3,
410-418
This is a schematic view of the STM/WM
system, from the cognitive perspective rather than from the
neuropsychological point of view. What's most interesting to me is the
assumed level of phonological representation — that they are phonemic,
and that […]
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04-11-14
Tags: Title: The reliability Author(s): Gloria S. Source: Behavior Publisher: Psychonomic Abstract:
and stability of verbal working memory measures
Waters ; David Caplan
Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers
Volume:
35
Number:
4 Page: 550 — 564
Society Publications
The psychometric properties of several commonly used verbal working
memory measures were assessed. One hundred thirty-nine individuals in
five age groups (18-30, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, and 80+ years) were tested
twice (Time I and […]
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04-11-14
Tags: Journal of Memory and Language Volume 50, Issue 2 What […]
If Alan Baddeley says CNRep and Digit span are good measures of verbal
short-term memory, then I guess they are. Not sure how they fare with
adults, though.
,
February 2004,
Pages 134-148
doi:10.1016/j.jml.2003.10.004
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