Archive for September, 2006
06-09-30
Tags:Linguistics phonoloblog»Blog Archive » ConCat: A catalogue of constraints 9/16/2006 ConCat: A catalogue of constraints
General–> — Marc van Oostendorp @ 2:30 am […]
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06-09-30
Tags:Linguistics phonoloblog » 2006 » June Sound patterns database
mielke@u.arizona.edu . Let me know how the database and interface could be made more useful to you in terms of features or content.
Thanks Jeff Mielke
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06-09-29
Tags:Education NCLB Teaching From Hoover Institution’s Hoover Digest earlier this year. The reference to CA’s Whole Language saga confuses me, although the main point has been made abandontly clear. The original Koret report is available at School Accountability: An Assessment by the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education.
No Child Left Behind: The Bad […]
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06-09-28
Tags:eye movement Paperville Research whole language Pauson’s previous research tries to look at reading eye movements within a Goodman framework. Here is his latest attempt. I am not a member of IRA and don’t have access. Reading Research Quarterly : July/August/September 2005 : Abstract of Viewing Eye Movements During Reading Through the Lens […]
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06-09-28
Tags:Education eye movement psychology reading An older news featuring Eric Reichle and his mindless reading studies; typical for how the media present research and researchers. USATODAY.com - Mindless reading seen as fundamental WASHINGTON (AP) — Better pay attention, reader. This whole story may be a […]
Mindless reading seen as fundamentalPosted 7/3/2006 2:24 PM ET
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06-09-28
Tags:Linguistics OddsnEnds A quote from a random reader response illustrates the oddness of "men" and "women" in the English:
The Tribune - Reader Submissions
This is the administration, backed by its [Party name removed] congressmen and women, …
Clearly s/he meant congressmen and congresswomen (or congress-women, or whatever), and did not suggest all men who are not […]
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06-09-28
Tags:Education Japanese Paperville preschool reading Research
In a recent paper Early Childhood Research Quarterly : Maternal involvement in preschool children’s education in Japan: Relation to parenting beliefs and socioeconomic status Y. Yamamoto and colleagues from UC Berkeley reported educational beliefs and practice of Japanese parents of preschool children. Here is the […]
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06-09-26
Tags:Computing creative spelling java TouchUp Watch List I am going back and forth on this — whether to use TouchUp, a java image processing applet on the Creative Spelling website. I have always been an Open Source person (granted I am stuck with Windoz boxes), but there is no Open Source alternative […]
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06-09-24
Tags:Computing Watch List DeltaCopy - Rsync for Windows
What is DeltaCopy
In general terms, DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program. Let’s say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB every night. A normal file copy would copy the entire file even if a few bytes have changed. DeltaCopy, on the […]
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06-09-23
Tags:Research interdisciplines : Issues in Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind : The Mirror System Hypothesis. Linking Language to Theory of Mind
Theory of Mind Let me first state my prejudice that “Theory of Mind” (ToM) is a slippery concept, and that I think it is better looked at as an assemblage of diverse […]
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06-09-22
Tags:internet history Profiles
More on Dan Cohen:
I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of Research Projects at the Center for History and New Media. My own research is in European and American intellectual history, the history of science (particularly mathematics), and the […]
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06-09-22
Tags:Computing firefox bibliography google map Research Watch List Dan Cohen has a very interesting application that combines text mining and Google Earth-type of geo-coding.
I gave a talk a couple of days ago at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archivists (to a great audience—many thanks to those who were there […]
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06-09-22
Tags:amazon Computing tagging Watch List This was old news from 10 months ago: Amazon tries its hand at tagging | News.blog | CNET News.com According to the blog Kokogiak, Amazon has formed a "tags team" and has begun using tags on some pages.
The idea, apparently, is to slowly experiment with tags and to […]
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06-09-21
Tags:bibiliograph citation Computing php references Research Watch List OSBIB formatting demonstrates how to format a PHP array to APA as well as many other formats. Looks like it automatically takes care of different context-dependent citation formats, which is way smarter than EndNote.
Bibliographic style:APA
Bibliography Formatting
Bibliographic input data:Array ( […]
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06-09-21
Tags:Computing EEG ica Research statistics CiteULike: Recipes for the linear analysis of EEG. Recipes for the linear analysis of EEG. Parra LC, Spence CD, Gerson AD, Sajda P Online Article Abstract
Neuroimage, Vol. 28, No. 2. (1 November 2005), pp. 326-341.
Authors
In this paper, we describe a simple set of "recipes" for […]
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06-09-21
Tags:Computing EEG Research Watch List Wireless EEG Technical specifications PETEEG […]
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06-09-21
Tags:Computing OddsnEnds pdf search
I learned a new trick today from Google — to open a PDF file in a browser and automatically highlight search keywords. I vaguely remember having read about this years back but haven’t seen an example until today. The following link (parra03a.pdf (application/pdf Object) ) illustrates how it works.
Basically […]
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06-09-20
Tags:Computing EEG eeglab ica Research This is similar to a problem that we are trying to work around. Scott Makeig smakeig at ucsd.edu Sun Jan 29 11:20:32 PST 2006 […]
[Eeglablist] synchronization: a problem for ICA?
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06-09-19
Tags:English google Linguistics OddsnEnds It’s perfectly fine with me — what do I know about subject-verb agreement as a native Chinese speaker?
The Sun Online - News: Microsoft launch YouTube rival
Maybe it’s a result of shortening by the editor? The first line of text reads:
MICROSOFT plans to launch its own video-share site in […]
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06-09-19
Tags:culture dyslexia Education medicalization psychology Teaching In the latest issue of Society (Vol 43, issue 6, Sep/Oct, 2006, SocietyTOC-SeptOct.pdf for ToC, no online access) there is a paper symposium on medicalization. Frank Furedi argued that medicalization in modern America is no longer dominated by the interests of physicians. A combination of forces, […]
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