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Here is what I am reading today:
“When potential dates, employers and friends glance at your online social profiles, what do they see? EyeTrackShop, a startup that runs eye-tracking studies for advertisers, helped Mashable find out by applying its technology to the profile pages of popular social networks.”
“Bill Hopkins of Emory University and his colleagues have been studying the whole process behind throwing and the impact it has on brain development, and have published their results in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.”
“You may recall the difficult process of learning how to read – associating a letter of the alphabet with a sound and then putting letters together to form words and sentences. In comparison, learning to speak may seem to come to us more naturally. Ultimately, finding the answers behind how we learn to speak and read could help those who have an impaired ability to speak or understand others, as well as assist those who have difficulty learning to read and write.”
“American opinions differ considerably from those of Western Europeans when it comes to views of individualism and the role of the state. Nearly six-in-ten (58%) Americans believe that it is more important for people to be free to pursue their goals without interference from the state; just 35% say it is more important for the state to play an active role in society so as to guarantee that nobody is in need.”
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anajafia · December 2, 2011 at 10:00 pm
The ideas and questions raised on the article on the development of speech was intriguing. I’m bilingual. I was raised speaking Farsi and English. I’ve always wondered why the change in the language came so easy, that is I can go from speaking Farsi with my father one day then go straight to English with my friends here. The two languages aren’t similar in pronunciation and enunciation whatsoever. Yet it is much easier than saying the Alphabet backwards, although the study on saying things backwards is probably a whole new psychology study. One thing that just adds fuel to this curiosity is the easy change from formalities with my parents or my professors to the slang I use any other time. Unconsciously, at least I believe, I am able to refrain from saying anything inappropriate.
On another point my family and I are thankful for Haskins Laboratories apparently, because we used and still use the artificial speech on computers all the time to aid us in our pronunciation of the more perceived odd words in the English language.
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