Archive for the 'Paperville' Category
07-10-15
Tags:Paperville Research A Bibliography on Writing and … - Google Book Search
This bibliography provides information on research about writing and written language in the late 20th century. It contains a selection of some 27,500 titles and covers literature in all scientific fields relating to writing. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary organization.
Published 1996 […]
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07-10-03
Tags:evolution Linguistics Paperville statistics Linguistics (and […]
Babel’s Dawn: Was the First Language Tonal? starts with 3 maps aimed to show how the distribution of tonal languages coincides with the distribution of 2 genetic structures (distributions of alles in a population, I think). It’s based on a recent PNAS paper by Dediu & Ladd.
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07-10-02
Tags:Computing Paperville Research Carol Whitney has a number of Publications on the SERIOL model of word recognition, which emphasize on the problem of letter position encoding. The Internet Archive has a video of her talk back in 2006 on this topic at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley .
Relevant […]
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07-09-26
Tags:Linguistics Paperville
Cutting and Breaking is the special topic of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 18, Iss. 2. Here’s part of the intro:
Applying statistical modeling to the descriptions of cutting and breaking events elicited from speakers of all the languages, we show that although there is crosslinguistic variation in the number of distinctions made and in the […]
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07-09-25
Tags:language evolution Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Commentary on a new paper on FoxP2. Echolocating bats fly in the crowded darkness and find food.
Babel’s Dawn: The Latest on the FoxP2 Gene
Surprising news from China finds extensive indications of evolution in the so-called language gene, FOXP2, among bats that use echolocation to find prey on […]
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07-09-21
Tags:Education French Linguistics Paperville MoDyCo Villejuif - CNRS Jaffré, Jean-Pierre > version […]
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07-09-21
Tags:Education Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes? - New York Times In a series of recent articles and a book, “The Happiness Hypothesis,” Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia, has been constructing […]
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07-09-19
Tags:brain Chinese evolution Linguistics orthography Paperville Teaching
One of the sites I silently track, Developing Intelligence has a post on the Visual Word Form Area.
How is it possible that we have such seemingly "dedicated hardware" for visual word recognition if writing hasn’t been around long enough for this mechanism to […]
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07-09-12
Tags:Computing Paperville psychology statistics This is the rationale for using SEM to model fMRI data, because […]
Amos Storkey (University of Edinburgh) published a paper this year that elucidates the relation between SEM and Gaussian Dynamic Baysian Networks, or Kalman Filters. Concise, but this is the clearest explanation I have seen so far:
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07-09-06
Tags:Linguistics Paperville psychology Research statistics The paper itself is short, […]
Bob McMurray will be visiting next Tuesday, and I look forward to meeting with him. Am reading his latest paper on Sciense: Defusing the Childhood Vocabulary Explosion — McMurray 317 (5838): 631 — Science. Bob also has a webpage dedicated to the paper.
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07-09-04
Tags:Paperville Unimpressed by the time line of human histroy put up on the website for the book The Alphabet Vs The Goddess | by Leonard Shlain. Example: Buddha becomes enlightened in India.
2,500 years ago
Buddha, though literate, writes nothing down. […]
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07-08-27
Tags:ai algorithm Computing evolution Paperville Research Eric Baum’s 1997 manuscript has the coolest title I’ve seen for years. Toward a Model of Intelligence as an Economy of Idiots
By the time it was published on Machine Learning in 1999,"idiots" became "agents", and it lost it.
It sounds like a really cool paper, though. […]
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07-08-27
Tags:Chinese counterfactual Linguistics Paperville syntax This is the latest book on aspect in Chinese, something that we’ve found to link to how people think and talk about counterfactuals. The TOC and the first chapter can be found at here.
Aspect In Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based Study (Studies in Language Companion […]
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07-08-13
Tags:alphabet Greek Linguistics OT Paperville Profiles I’ve been reading Roger Woodard’s 1997 book on the origin of Greek Alphabet:
So far I am very impressed. He makes a strong argument that the Greek alphabet was adopted by scribes who were proficient in syllabic writing. The chapters on the rules of syllabic systems […]
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07-08-02
Tags:distribution Paperville Research statistics word frequency Many natural phenomena exhibit self-similarity, and statistically this often shows in the frequency distribution of events. Word frequency is a classic example. If you rank words from most frequent to the least, and plot its frequency distribution on a log-log scale, you will get a straight […]
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07-08-02
Tags:health media Paperville reading statistics Teaching
Hardly a day goes by without some sensatinoal claims about what reading does for the mind, or brain. Some turn out to be true, but many skeptical. Here’s a recent news piece from HealthDay that circulated among national newspapers such as the Washington Post.
Lead […]
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07-07-06
Tags:English Linguistics Paperville Research spelling Flaps is notoriously hard in spelling. Becky Treiman and others have shown that young children (at some point during their literacy development) tend to spell as they hear the sounds, such as <*SDAR> for <STAR>. Does Eddington suggest here that children actually have an "underlying" lexical representation […]
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07-06-09
Tags:Chinese dialect Linguistics Paperville phonology A title like this automatically triggers dismissal, but looking at the first sentence of the abstract, I’d give it a second chance — I reserve my judgment until after I read it. Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size […]
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07-06-08
Tags:Education Linguistics OT Paperville phonological awareness reading Teaching "I had learned symbols … 1 and 2 and 3 … so I wanted that for five-letter words … I had this idea that … I was going to know just by looking … But there’s no way you could possibly take […]
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07-06-06
Tags:evolution Linguistics Paperville Research symbol symbol system
David and Ann Premack’s 2005 commentary on Science got it right (Evolution Versus Invention — Premack and Premack 307 (5710): 673b — Science):
…it is not language per se that is critical for understanding the transition from analog to digital numeracy, but the change from […]
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