Archive for May, 2005
05-05-30
Language Log: Locating the sarcasm bump?
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(Odds'n'Ends, Paperville, Psychology) | 0
05-05-30
Tags: Is this book worth it? Amazon offers some new statistics to help you decide. Here is a book I recently inquired: The English Writing System (Arnold Publication) Readability: (learn more)
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics, Statstics) | 0
05-05-30
Vivian Cook: The English Writing System
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(Research, Profiles, Paperville, Linguistics) | 3
05-05-27
Tags: Recent discussion on the citeULike mailing list made reference to 2 reference management servers: RefDB and RefBase. They might be ok backends, but none has the (promised) functionalities of CiteULike.Org.
—–Original Message—– From: citeulike-discuss-admin@lists.citeulike.org [mailto:citeulike-discuss-admin@lists.citeulike.org] On Behalf Of Bruce D’Arcus Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 7:46 AM To: citeulike-discuss@lists.citeulike.org Subject: Re: [CiteULike-discuss] citeUlike backend
On May […]
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(Computing, Research) | 2
05-05-27
Tags: Bruce Derwing has published numerous papers on psycholinguistic studies of children’s syllable structure and the relations between spelling and phonology.
University of Alberta Dept […]
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05-05-26
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Grace Wiebe has for over 10 years worked on creative spelling of adult speakers of an unwritten dialet of Low German. Here is the most recent paper on the topic:
Wiebe, G. Adults’ creative spelling of an unwritten language: Literacy and awareness of phonological units. Derwing Festschrift. (accepted). View Article
These adults are literate in English […]
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(Research, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
05-05-26
Tags: In my 2004-4-29 blog Shadow » Blog Archive » reversing words query I quoted Tina Bennett-Kastor:
Ruth Day (who used to be in the Dept. of Psych. at Duke University; perhaps she still is) was doing some interesting research on adults and finding that some (whom she called “language bound”) were unable to manipulate the sounds […]
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05-05-26
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In the same article, Davidson et al presented an experimental study of young infants’ phonological knowledge that is very consistent with the predictions of OT (Elliott Moreton’s name was mentioned as a collaborator in a slide but not the in the final paper).
A head turn preference procedure (Kemler Nelson et al. ‘95; Jusczyk ‘97) […]
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(Research, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
05-05-26
Speaking Polish like an American: Spelling as the Underlying Representation?
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(Research, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 4
05-05-26
Tags: The following is from the Rumelhart Prize (2003) site. Research Biography of Paul Smolensky
Paul Smolensky has pursued a unified theory of the mind/brain inspired by a fundamental analogy with modern physics: just as quantum and classical theory do for the physical world, Smolensky holds that for cognition, connectionist and symbolic theory […]
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(Profiles, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
05-05-26
Axel Cleeremans: Rules vs Statistical Learning
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05-05-26
Tags: 4.1. Dyslexics—A danger in traffic?
The results from this study may let us ask the questions about traffic security and whether dyslexics are a real danger in the traffic. The intention with the study was not to bar dyslexics from driving cars, but rather to investigate possible implications of the visual processing difficulties on other […]
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(Research, Teaching, Paperville, Psychology, Education) | 0
05-05-24
Tags: A few interesting papers hot from press: PsycARTICLES - Developmental Psychology - Vol 41 Iss 3 Page 562
Preschoolers’ Understanding of Knowing-That and Knowing-How in the United States and Hong Kong.
by Tardif, Twila; Wellman, Henry M.; Fung, Kitty Yau Fong; Liu, David; Fang, FuxiTwo experiments on preschoolers’ […]
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(Research, Paperville, Psychology) | 0
05-05-24
Tags: Lens five times thinner than paper developed Scientists invent lens five times thinner than a sheet of paper
Québec City, May 18, 2005 – Scientists from Université Laval’s Faculty of Sciences and Engineering have invented a lens five times thinner than a sheet of paper that is able to zoom in and out without mechanical parts. Tigran […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends, Watch List) | 0
05-05-23
Tags: Can I search the full text of […]
According to GoogleDesktopSearch FAQ, it only indexes the first 5k words. That’s why it’s not so useful in organizing my PDF file collection. Even the ReIndex for Google Desktop Search won’t help.
Help Center > Searching > Files
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05-05-23
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As a non-native speaker of English, I find myself in constant struggle with subtle semantics of words. In Sidernberg & Markman response to Marcus’ response on the Science (1999) paper, they concluded the public letter with this:
We have one final comment to make. Many people have noted that there is a problem in this country […]
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(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-05-23
Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition
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(Research, Teaching, Psychology, Linguistics, Statstics) | 0
05-05-20
The Speech Accent Archive
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(Research, Teaching, Linguistics) | 1
05-05-20
Tags: Oxford English Dictionary: Phonics, n. pl. The correlations between sound and symbol in an alphabetic writing system; used spec. with reference to a method of teaching reading by associating letters or groups of letters with particular sounds (cf. phonic method s.v. PHONIC 2). a. (n.) 1908 E. B. HUEY Psychol. & […]
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(Research, Teaching, Education, Linguistics) | 0
05-05-19
Teddy’s Spelling Reform
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(Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Education, Linguistics) | 0