Archive for November, 2005
05-11-29
Tags: the ADIOS algorithm was in the news last month, and the paper is available here. Sounds like a big deal.
Version: 1.00 Date: 29/1/05 Authors: Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin and Shimon Edelman
Overview:
The ADIOS project addresses the problem, fundamental to linguistics, bioinformatics and certain […]
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05-11-29
Tags: A couple of recent papers on the cultural transmission of knowledge in dolphins: Culture and conservation of non-humans with reference to whales and dolphins: review and new directions
Biological Conservation, Vol. 120, No. 3. (December 2004), pp. 427-437.
by Whitehead H, Rendell L, Osborne RW, […]
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05-11-28
Tags: A Linguistic Introduction to English Words A Linguistic Introduction to English Words Heidi Harley Chapter 1 Intro— pp. 6-22
PDFs of chapter drafts, Spring 2004 (Note Chapter 2 and Chapter 8 are made up of mulitple .pdfs)
Frontmatter Table of contents — pp. 1-5
Chapter 2a Phonology — pp. 23-24 […]
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(Paperville, Linguistics) | 0
05-11-28
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Language Log has a couple of posts over the Thanksgiving weekend that shows how confusing the English language is and how confused its speakers are when talking about numbers and politics.
Benjamin Zimmer cited Ambrose Bierce:
Grammar has not a speaking acquaintance with politics, and patriotic pride is not schoolmaster to syntax.
[Update: the presidential […]
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05-11-22
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Dyslexia - MayoClinic.com provides this definition of dyslexia for the general public, which is representative of what popular beliefs among the medical community and increasingly the educational community.
Dyslexia is an impairment in your brain’s ability to translate written images received from your eyes into meaningful language. Also called specific reading disability, dyslexia is […]
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(Teaching, Psychology, Education) | 1
05-11-14
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This is something that I’d thought about, but it’s only feasible with the scale of Amazon (via Language log Distributed outsourcing).
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05-11-14
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Susan J. Duval (AKA Sue Taylor), developed the "Trim and Fill" method for assessing and adjusting publication bias in meta-analysis. Following are 3 relevant publications from her website.
First learned about "Trim and Fill" and the "Funnel Plot" last Friday at the meta-analysis workshop organized by Harris Cooper. I post some of my thoughts on […]
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05-11-11
Tags: SMI (www.smiusa.com) announced their 1250Hz eye tracker on Monday: iView X Hi-Speed 1250: Fastest Drift-Free Eye Tracking The iView X Hi-Speed 1250 offers an unmatched sampling rate of 1250 Hz with processing latencies of less than 0.5 milliseconds. Setting ultimate benchmarks for next generation mono- and binocular video eye tracking, the new […]
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(Computing, Research) | 0
05-11-10
Tags: Becky Treiman and other people in the reading research circle have long noted the lasting influence of letter names. Children often start with a letter-name strategy in their first attempts to spell.
Bob Kennedy recently took a different look at the effect of letter names, this time with people’s initials. Some combinations sounds good but […]
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05-11-10
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Chris Corea, in a discussion of the "good" and "bad" use of testing, mentioned the following blog Ms. Frizzle: Testing, testing… Ready to rant, where she talked about how tests, pretests, and pre-pretests are handled by the school and the Region.
There is also some tense discussions about testing at JennyD’s blog. Not all participants […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 2
05-11-10
Tags: Scopus has some intereting technologies to help dealing with information overload in research. Along with reference management and visualization, it also uses a technique developed by LiveInk.com.
"Dear LiveInk,
My daughter has serious dyslexia.
She just couldn’t make sense […]
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(Research, Teaching, Psychology, Education) | 0
05-11-10
Tags: New York Times reports the excavation of what is thought to be the earliest Hebrew abecedary. Language Log provides more background info about the discovery and controversies around it (I am not sure where the picture was from, though).
Of the many interesting findings, NYT mentioned that in 4 cases letter sequences are reversed — or […]
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(Research, Linguistics) | 0
05-11-09
Tags:emergent literacy eye movement reading
Shared storybook reading is one of the most enjoyable experience of a parent. And both commonsense and scientific research tell you that it’s good to your child’s reading and literacy development.
But why, and how? Until now, the standard answer is that shared book reading helps to promote children’s […]
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(Research, Teaching, Psychology, Education) | 0
05-11-08
Tags: >co-link> A escrita coletiva de links multidirecionais has some interesting ideas … and GPL sourcecode. What are co-links? Association […]
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(Computing) | 0
05-11-07
Tags:dyslexia LD A learning-disability dialogue BY JAMIE CHAMBERLIN Monitor Staff Print version: page 58 Two teams of experts in school psychology research […]
A learning-disability dialogue, on the latest issue of APA Monitor.
Experts debated learning-disability assessment at APA’s 12th Annual Institute for Psychology in the Schools.
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(Teaching, Psychology, Education) | 0
05-11-07
Tags:literacy phonics policy reading reading war whole language Seven myths about literacy in the united states. McQuillan, Jeff, the 7th of which is a summary of McQuillan’s assessment on the California’s reading saga. Myth 7: California’s Test Scores Declined Dramatically Due to Whole Language Instruction
In addition to finding a crisis […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 0
05-11-07
Tags: Language under Uncertainty Kyoto University, Japan Sponsored by Group 36 in the research project "Towards a Center of Excellence for the Study of Humanities in the Age of Globalization" at Kyoto University (Group Leader: Prof. Yukinori Takubo) Conference Theme Speakers frequently make assertions based […]
January 21-23, 2005
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(Research, Linguistics) | 0
05-11-01
Tags: As someone who studies the psychological processes of reading and the development of reading-related skills (technical enough?), I have been asked for opinions on educational policies regarding reading and literacy, fortunately only informally. I hesitate, but often end up offering my 2 cents anyways. Deep down, though, I am conflicted on whether or not I […]
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