Archive for September, 2005
05-09-29
Tags:
Viorica Marian has some interesting publications on bilingualism and eye tracking from her dissertation work. Her later research seems to concentrate on memory.
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
v-marian@northwestern.edu […]
»»»
(Research, Profiles, Paperville) | 0
05-09-29
Tags: L1 OHD Overview.pdf, L1 OHD Folk psychology.jpg
Josef Perner has a bunch of handouts on Theory of Mind on his website TOMEF.
J. Perner, (picture from Google Image Cache)
VO Theory of Mind:
L2 OHD mental states.pdf
L3 OHD belief+desire.pdf
L4 OHD representation.pdf
L5 OHD simulation.pdf
L6 OHD devel-infancy.pdf (Update am 2.5.2005: […]
»»»
(Psychology) | 0
05-09-29
Tags: How do I subscribe to an RSS feed with R|mail? Use the R|mail subscription form [http://www.kbcafe.com/rmail.aspx]. […]
R|Mail might be a solution for those who don’t have a RSS client (you know who).
»»»
(Computing) | 1
05-09-28
Tags:
Paul Boersma’s writings on the Gradual Learning Algorithm include several key papers:
1997 How we learn variation, optionality, and probability. IFA Proceedings 21: 43-58. Download: Abstract | Paper | Simulation script Note: ROA 221 (1997/10/12) is an incorrect earlier version! This paper also appeared as chapter 15 of Functional Phonology (1998).
[…]
»»»
(Computing, Research, Linguistics) | 0
05-09-28
Tags:
Barry Fox has a column on New Scientist on odd and cool inventions that have been registered at US Patent Office. They would be wonderful materials for a reading comprehension study, where the measure of comprehension is no long the nonsense multiple choice questions. Instead, we could simply ask readers to judge how likely the […]
»»»
(Computing, Research, Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-09-28
Tags:
Language Log mentioned 2 free unicode maps, BabelMap, which is Windows only, and gucharmap for the Linux world. Both should be useful.
»»»
(Computing, Linguistics) | 0
05-09-28
Tags:
Nobuyuki has a post on papers on eye movements studies during reading by Masyayuki Matsuda at Sakushin Gakuin University, which I repost here. I have the 読み―脳と心の情報処理 chapter, but other papers look really interesting.
著書：松田真幸 1998 読みにおける近中心窩情報の処理 苧阪直行(編) 読み―脳と心の情報処理 朝倉書店 Pp.57-71． 論文： 松田真幸 2003 日本語文の再読における標記形態の影響と眼球運動 作新学院大学人間文化学部紀要、1,1-16. 松田真幸 2001 日本語文の読みにおける文節間空白の影響 基礎心理学研究, 19(2), 83-92. 松田真幸 1999 近中心窩視による漢字表記語の文字情報の処理 作新学院大学紀要, 9, 67-80. 松田真幸 1998a 近中心窩に提示された漢字表記語の音韻処理 基礎心理学研究，17(1), 27-35. Matsuda, M. 1998b Visual span of detection and recognition […]
»»»
(Research) | 0
05-09-28
Tags:dyslexia Education reading Teaching Children of the Code has a special page on "shame stories" — children and adults who self-blame for not being as good as others in reading. Well, they are not really stories. They are mentionings of shame during interviews David Boulton did with prominent researchers, educators, and politicians. Here […]
»»»
(Teaching, Education) | 2
05-09-26
Tags:
Can’t believe that Google is 7 years old (today). It seems like yesterday that Alta Vista was the default search engine, and Excite and NorthLight were the new kids on the block (don’t click […]
»»»
(Computing, Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-09-26
Tags:
ROA 721 is a master’s thesis but nontheless is intriguing. I wonder what it might mean for dyslexia and children who have trouble learning phonological awareness kind of tasks.
Common, Uncommon, and Rare Phonological Disorders: An OT Perspective
John Kinney George Mason University
George Mason University Master’sThesis, 2004 Thesis Director: Dr. […]
»»»
(Paperville, Linguistics) | 0
05-09-26
Tags: 736-0505 Gradience, phonotactics, and the lexicon in English phonology Author Michael Hammond <hammond@u.arizona.edu> [Details] Comment appeared in International Journal […]
ROA 736 sounds really interesting and … ambitious. OT for neighborhood effect? Gotta read (before commenting).
»»»
(Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
05-09-26
Tags:
ROA 738 is an experimental study on internal inflectional suffixation in English. The authors argue that the phenomenon is driven by perceptibility and morphology.
For perceptibility, they propose that -ing> -s > -ed. With regard to morphology, the authors asked native English speakers to read made up phrases such as dacked van vs. dact van, […]
»»»
(Linguistics) | 0
05-09-26
Tags: 743-0505 Differential Difficulty in the Acquisition of Second Language Phonology […]
ROA 743 is a recent paper on Madarin L2 speakers of English. It seems to be a promising line of research, and hopefully the authors will expand on it.
»»»
(Linguistics) | 0
05-09-24
Tags:
FeederReader works well on my 4.5-year-old iPaq 3850. I had to first install the .Net Compact Framework from Microsoft, which took me sometime to find on MS’s download page. I then had to register at FeederReader’s forum to get access to their download page. But everything worked without a glitch, which is amazing given the […]
»»»
(Computing, Odds'n'Ends) | 1
05-09-22
Boxer vs. Wrestler: No uncertainty
»»»
(Odds'n'Ends, Statstics) | 0
05-09-22
Tags: A fascinating article on Bonobos, close cousin of humans and Chimpanzees. It has been argued that the Bonobo is a better model for the evolution of Homo Sapiens.
Why? Aside from (more) intense interests in sex and peace, they love to play.
Bonobo Sex and Society
by
Frans B. M. […]
»»»
(Odds'n'Ends, Psychology) | 0
05-09-18
Tags: According to the following news article from SF Gate, Duke’s dean of Environment School spent hundreds $$ each month on electricity. I think he should move into a smaller house and change his lightbulbs.
Global cooling / Seven steps you can take to fight warming of planet
"My wife and I put […]
»»»
(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-09-16
Tags: Got a couple of minutes and hopped to Andrew Gelman’s blog.
The point about representative samples is somewhat silly - I don’t want an economist doing my dental work any more than I want a dentist calculating my marginal taxation rate, mostly because they self-select into those roles. They very well might be able to […]
»»»
(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-09-15
Tags: In the following article on acoustic spying, a new spying technique that listens to your keyboard clicks, someone (Theodore Svoronos, Vice President of E-commerce Solutions for StrikeForce Technologies) was quoted to have said: Technology News: Security : Sound Spies Target Computer Typists
"It’s too late once the horse gets out of the barn to […]
»»»
(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-09-15
Tags:
Finally, after 5+ years, Kevin Murphy’s Bayes Net Toolbox for Matlab is on SourceForge.
Bayes Net Toolbox for Matlab
This is the project page for a new open-source release of Kevin Murphy’s Bayes Net Toolbox (see his original page). The goal is to continue development in a more distributed fashion, with participation from […]
»»»
(Computing, Watch List, Statstics) | 0