Archive for February, 2006
06-02-28
Tags:Computing Education Linguistics modeling psychology reading Research Teaching The Landscape Model of Reading The complexity of text comprehension suggests that a computational approach is useful for describing the cognitive processes involved, along with their […]
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06-02-27
Tags:Linguistics Paperville Research symbol CiteULike: Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine "The cognitive age of humans started when we used sounds, gestures, and symbols to refer to objects, things, and concepts. The sound, gesture, or symbol is not the thing itself; rather, it […]
Donald Normal, 1994:
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06-02-22
Tags:Linguistics number OddsnEnds Research symbol
Laputan Logic - Spreadsheet came to the conclusion that the antient Romans did:
Roman numerals totally suck!
Pretty much any number system people came up with in the history can deal with small numbers. What became difficult was dealing with arbitrarily large numbers. The complicated rules in the Greek […]
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06-02-21
Tags:Linguistics OddsnEnds OT Paperville Research The Rise of Optimality Theory in First Century Palestine OT is not so much a theory of phonology or syntax as a philosophy of life. Life makes conflicting demands, and to satisfy some we must violate others. OT proposes that these demands (constraints) are ranked; a candidate solution […]
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06-02-19
Tags: Nick C. Ellis Professor of Psychology
Research Scientist, English Language Institute
University of Michigan
Publications:
Ellis, N. C. (Ed.) (1994). Implicit and explicit learning of languages. (599 pp.) London: Academic Press. ISBN: 0-12-237475-4.
Brown, G . D. A., & Ellis, N. C. (Eds.) (1994). Handbook of spelling: Theory, process and intervention. (542 pp.) Chichester: John Wiley […]
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06-02-18
Tags: By Jessie, Nov, 2005
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06-02-17
Tags:Computing Education intelligence Linguistics Profiles psychology symbol system Douglas Engelbart (ibiblio, Wikipedia, Bootstrap Institute) was influenced by Worf’s "principle of linguistic relativity". His seminal work, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" broadened linguistic determinism to technologies and human artifacts. This is a topic of a length discussion I had with […]
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06-02-16
Whether Mr Cheney will change seems unlikely
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06-02-15
Tags:Computing OddsnEnds Watch List wiki Main Page - Scholarpedia Main Page From Scholarpedia Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia
From Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia
Welcome to Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around […]
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06-02-14
Tags:Computing graphs Linguistics Research statistics symbol system The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press
Graphs as visual symbolic systems. Of course, where else to look besides Ed Tufte.
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06-02-08
Tags: I was reading Paul Kay’s "Language, thought, and color: recent developments". The World Color Survey is a great source of cross-linguistic data, however, I am concerned with the task with which they used in naming.
Isn’t there a tendency to give the simplest possible term for a color under uncertain context? I suspect they would […]
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06-02-08
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It’s fascinating to see how Liz Spelke’s name came up on Andrew Gelman’s blog (More on rotation invariance). Tanya Kaefer and I are writing a paper on conceptual changes young children have to go through when they learn to read, one of which has to do with the principle of rotational invariance that works with […]
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06-02-08
Tags: I have a feeling that the -r trend has its root in children’s creative spellings, something I can probably check in the Gates (or Gatz?) misspelling corpus. Becky Treiman talks extensively about this in her 1993 book and other publications. Microsoft’s Robert Scoble was the first to complain, after […]
Language Log: How to countr orthographic offendrs
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06-02-08
Tags: Before […]
LanguageLog dug out this older Onion piece on spelling: Vowels to Bosnia
from the Onion…
WORLD NEWS: CLINTON DEPLOYS VOWELS TO BOSNIA
Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to Be First Recipients
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06-02-07
Tags: TITLE: Resolving the paradox of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders: Which evolutionary genetic models work best?
AUTHORS: Matthew C. Keller and Geoffrey Miller
ABSTRACT: Given that natural selection is so powerful at optimizing complex adaptations, why does it seem unable to eliminate genes (susceptibility alleles) that predispose to common, harmful, heritable mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or […]
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06-02-07
Tags: "Towards a unified science of cultural evolution"
by
Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, and Kevin N. Laland
Please click here for the PDF file
Abstract
We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue that the structure of a science of cultural evolution should […]
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06-02-07
Tags: "Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language"
John L. Locke and Barry Bogin
Abstract:
It has long been claimed that Homo sapiens is the only species that has symbolic language, but only recently recognized that humans also have an unusual pattern of growth and development. Social mammals have two […]
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06-02-04
Tags:blog Computing plugin Wordpress WordPress Wiki - Plugin has several things I’d like to add: does’t seem to work, at least it doesn’t display the keyword at the end. conflict with WYSIWYG editor? Weighted Categories or Heat Map (to integrate with Keywords?), Bunny’s […]
Keywords
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06-02-04
Tags:evolution game theory History language Linguistics philosophy Research Game Theory Gintis (2000) has recently felt justified in stating baldly that "game theory is a universal language for the unification of the behavioral sciences." This may seem an extraordinary thing to say, but it is entirely plausible. Binmore (1998, […]
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06-02-03
Tags: No, not another Larry Summers!
PLoS Biology: Men, Women, and Ghosts in Science
Peter Lawrence bravely published a paper that is convoluted in ideas and irrational in logic. He argues that (a) men and women have in born differences regarding their potentials for science — you guess who has the upper hand — although (b) there are […]
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