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07-06-06
Tags:Linguistics Paperville It’s a matter of word play, I used to think, when people talk about the evolution of language. Evolution can simply be the synonym of change, development, improvement, optimization, adaptation, etc. More often than not, the evolution of language is talked about in these senses, which have only tangential relationship with Darwinian evolution. I […]
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07-06-02
Tags:eye movement Paperville reading Research
I stumbled on a surprisingly comprehensive entry on Wikipedia on Eye movement in music reading.
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07-05-31
Tags:language Paperville Research symbol symbol system vygotsky Vygotsky: Thinking and speaking: Written, Inner and Oral Speech The development of writing does not repeat the developmental history of speaking. Written speech is a separate linguistic function, differing from oral speech in both structure and mode of functioning. Even its minimal development requires […]
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07-05-31
Tags:language Paperville psychology Research symbol symbol system Perhaps the […]
I revisited Premack’s 2004 Science piece on human uniqueness ("Is language the key to human intelligence?" 16 Jan., p. 318) and particularly his response to a question about humans having 6 symbol systems (Language and Systems of Symbols). A number of interesting points:
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07-05-17
Tags:eye movement modeling Paperville Research Schall’s work, which RHS Carpenter cited as neurological evidence for the LATER model, is very striking. Some of his papers are on my to-read list, which is piling up really fast. Jeffrey D. Schall, Ph.D
Neural Control of Voluntary Movement Initiation
D.P. Hanes and […]
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07-04-30
Tags:English History Linguistics Paperville spelling
I can only begin but not finish Johnson’s Preface to the Dictionary.
Re the unfortunate soul; are we any better?
[2] Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pionier of […]
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07-04-29
Tags:English History Linguistics Paperville spelling
Excerpts from Johnson’s Plan of an English Dictionary, with emphases added.
After a long self-doubt — self pitty some times — Johnson arrived at the first substantive issue: What is this a dictionary of?
In the first attempt to methodise my ideas I found a difficulty, […]
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07-04-29
Tags:Education Paperville statistics Teaching Richard A. Berk at UCLA Stats dept published a paper entitled Randomized Experiments as the Bronze Standard
ABSTRACT:In this paper, the strengths and weakness of randomized field […]
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07-04-28
Tags:English History Linguistics Paperville Research spelling
Jack Lynch has a collection of texts from Samuel Johnson. Of interests to me are:
A Plan of an English Dictionary
Preface to the Dictionary
Crystal (Cambridge Encyc of English, p. 74) mentioned that Johnson began with a prescriptive vision of the dictionary (in the Plan) but ended […]
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07-04-28
Tags:Education English Linguistics Paperville spelling Teaching Among the many treasures there is Webster’s enomoursly popular speller, said to have sold a million copies a year in the […]
In searching for Noah Webser’s "The American Spelling Book" I was directed to this site Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read
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07-04-26
Tags:Education English History Linguistics Paperville spelling Internet Archive Search: spelling AND subject:"English language — Orthography and spelling"
Internet Archive has a number of books on spelling and orthography of English.
English spelling and spelling reform - Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford, 1838-1915Includes indexesKeywords: English language — Orthography and spelling; Spelling reform
Proposals for a simplified […]
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07-04-14
Tags:Paperville Profiles From Ruth Millikan’s home page My research interests span many topics in the philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and ontology. The unity is in method rather than subject matter. The aspects of these fields that interest me are continuous with relevant scientific work and with the philosophy […]
Ruth G. Millikan
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07-04-06
Tags:Paperville psychology Research Barrett and Kurzban (2006) lays out a number of arguments for and against modularity. They are on the FOR side, but I find the discussion fair and informative. Specifically, on pages 638-639, they discussed the possibility of a "reading module" (looks like suggested by Coltheart, 2002) and how it might be […]
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07-04-04
Tags:Paperville paraorthography punctuation I am not sure if this is relevent to the paper I am working on (shh… on paraorthographics, which I will explain later). Judging from the first line of the editorial review it should be, but the reader reviews point to another direction. Duke’s copy of this book is lost, so […]
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07-03-21
Tags:Paperville Research The Questia Online Library has excerpt from the following chapter, where it was claimed that 2nd graders were not affected by space-fillers. I am not sure the study was actually published — have to track it down. Beginning readers do spend a lot more time on refixating the same words, in which case […]
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06-12-02
Tags:communication Paperville Research symbol symbol system Haskins Laboratories […]
Bruno Galantucci published a paper last year, which is a study of emergent symbolic systems using real people — not simulated agents — playing video games. This was his dissertation.
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06-11-29
Tags:autism OddsnEnds Paperville psychology Research theory of mind A discussion about Theory of Mind : From an Autistic Perspective J. Blackburn, K. Gottschewski, Elsa George, and Niki L, "A discussion about Theory of Mind : From an Autistic Perspective," Proceedings of Autism Europe’s 6th International Congress, Glasgow 19-21 May 2000, in […]
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06-11-28
Tags:Linguistics Paperville Teaching Language Defined. Edward Sapir. 1921. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, available free at Bartleby.com. Edward Sapir (1884–1939)
In this classic intro to linguistics Sapir laid out some issues that still bother language researchers, particularly cognitive and cogneural scientists.
Are we evolved to speak? It’s interesting that Sapir sees walking as […]
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06-10-30
Tags:OddsnEnds Paperville Psy97 psychology self Teaching theory of mind Elephents passed the Mirror Test! […]
The news is all over, and I thought it’s too ____ to not mention here. It’s work from Frans de Waal’s group at Emory. Picture here and 3 video clips on the PNAS supporting info site.
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06-10-12
Tags:eye movement Paperville psychology Research Teaching I thought this is pretty cool. Caspi, A., Hirschberger, G., Ein-Dor, T., & Zivotofsky, A. Z. (2006). Looking away from death: The influence of subliminal […]
Journal of Vision - Looking away from death: The influence of subliminal priming on eye movement decisions, by Caspi, Hirschberger, Ein-Dor, & Zivotofsky
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