Archive for January, 2007
07-01-30
Tags:Education eye movement Japanese Linguistics OddsnEnds reading Research word
Nobuyuki did some digging on the topic of using white spaces in Japanese elementary textbooks. See his posts here and here.
It all started with a simple question a couple of years ago when I visited RIKEN BSI. We grabbed […]
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07-01-29
Tags:Education Teaching Open CRS (User submitted) Summary: The Reading […]
Open CRS Network - CRS Reports for the People has a Jan 20, 2006 report on the Reading First controversy.
RL33246 Reading First: Implementation Issues and Controversies January 20, 2006
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07-01-27
Tags:Linguistics This is the proceedings of the workshop on Punctuation in Computational Linguistics, held at the ACL Conference in June 1996 at Santa Cruz. It contains the following papers: Introduction Bernard Jones
The Syntax and Semantics of Punctuation and its Use in Interpretation Ted Briscoe
Punctuation in Quoted Speech Christine Doran […]
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07-01-26
Tags:Linguistics The Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese Writing Systems This site provides some concise intro to C, J, and V writing systems. Although I don’t see anything relevant to how words are spaced in V. My interest was piqued by the wikipedia entry on Word, where I found the following claim.
Especially confusing are languages such as Vietnamese, where […]
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07-01-26
Tags:Education Profiles Research Sam Odom gave a very interesting talk today on peer acceptance and rejection among preschool children with disabilities. They used a mixed method approach based on
Caracelli & Greene (1997). Crafting mixed-methods evaluations design. In Caracelli & Greene (Eds.), Advances in mixed-method evaluation: the challenges and benefits of integrating (pp. 19-32). SF: […]
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07-01-20
Tags:OddsnEnds
A find in Language Log: Academically powerful words
"Paradoxically, the ubiquitous juxtaposition of an ironic feminist subjective/objective dichotomy alongside the duality of race/ethnicity is not iconoclasm."
I’ve been trying to do an eye-tracking study on reading post-modern texts in order to understand (in)comprehension(ability). Martyn Cornell’s creation above would be a good starting point, even though it is […]
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07-01-20
Tags:OddsnEnds statistics
Andrew Gelman has a couple of interesting posts (among many) lately on his blog Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Going to college may be bad for your brain?
Not getting the Nobel Prize reduces your expected lifespan by two years
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07-01-16
Tags:amazon Computing OddsnEnds Research spelling Amazon Mechanical Turk I blogged this years back, but now it appears to be a real possibility to get our Creative Spelling transcription done.
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07-01-04
Tags:Teaching NEA News Room: Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey Contact: […]
Fewer Than Half of American Adults Now Read Literature
July 8, 2004
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07-01-04
Tags:OddsnEnds Research Mark’s post yesterday strikes a chord with my old hope for data sharing among scientific communities. Would be my goal #145 after tenure. January 03, 2007
Language Log: Executable articles
Executable articles
Here’s an idea whose time has come: scientific and technical papers should include an explicit, executable recipe for generating their numbers, tables and graphs from […]
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