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• A Review of Developmental and Applied Language Research on African American Children: From a Deficit to Difference Perspective on Dialect Differences

  
  COMD News — Authority: 149
  Conclusion: Research initiatives that can expand knowledge about this group are proposed. from Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  1 week ago

• Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 450
  Geographic distribution of the 2,236 languages included in the present study.Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why languages differ throughout the world.The study argues that human ...
  1 week ago

• Everybody Laughs, Everybody Cries: Researchers Identify Universal Emotions

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 450
  Laughter is a universal language, according to new research.Here’s a piece of research that might leave you tickled: laughter is a universal language, according to new research. The study, conducted with people from Britain and Namibia, suggests that basic emotions such as amusement, anger, fear and sadness are ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Semester!

  
  Modified Output — Authority: 110
  OK, everybody, the new semester is upon us! I’m taking two classes: second language assessment with Dr. Jim Purpura and schools of linguistics, with Dr. Howard Williams . The second language assessment course is pretty straightforward. We are going to be studying how to make valid language tests, both normative ...
  2 weeks ago

• Monkey See = Monkey Do 2

  
  Kalinago English — Authority: 119
  I wonder who first coined the phrase Monkey See Monkey Do after noticing primates copy each other - probably it was someone in a village somewhere who was keeping one as a pet or it might well have been a circus entertainer - - hmm, whoever it was, it was definitely way back before a bunch of men in white coats ...
  3 weeks ago

• Now speech therapy has more to say to help kids

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Today, speech pathologists can analyze a toddlers babbled speech for consonant inventory, observe communicative gestures to help predict future language acquisition and correlate modes of play to later language learning.
  4 weeks ago

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