Not exact matches
You can say it is something that
different areas
of reality, like developing organisms and
speakers of languages, react to, and in these areas you can see the reactions it causes.
Now, a new study presented at the Evolution
of Language meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, last month shows that young
speakers of one
of these
languages — Israeli Sign Language — have come up with richer, more grammatically complex ways
of signing that use ever more parts
of the body for
different purposes.
Infants
of this age, however, do not appear to have any positive or negative expectations
of speakers of an unfamiliar
language, suggesting that negativity toward groups
different from their own is likely learned after the first year
of life, the researchers found.
Languages are dying as improved transport and telecommunications bring
different peoples into closer contact, and
speakers of minority tongues abandon them for the
languages of more dominant cultures.
The process usually involves at least one
of the following tasks: transcribing a recorded voice, comparing an intercepted voice to that
of a suspect, putting the suspect's voice in a lineup
of different voices, profiling a
speaker based on dialect or
language spoken, interpreting noises or verifying the authenticity
of a recording.
Russell Gray, senior author on the paper, says, «One
of the really cool things we found was that this approach might allow us to detect when and where
speakers of different languages were interacting many thousands
of years ago.»
The simple fact that English readers can parse this discussion
of the various spatial strategies involved means we must be able at least to comprehend and employ the
different approaches, as is true for most other
language speakers.
He points also to brain - imaging research that shows native
speakers of Chinese and native
speakers of English process the same Arabic numerals in
different parts
of their brains, suggesting that
language and culture influence even which neurons are recruited to deal with numbers.
Will she be able to understand me as we are the native
speakers of completely
different languages?
International friendship services are always
of interest for people who want to know more about
different cultures, learn foreign
languages, and look for native
speaker friends.The communication between such users is bound to be productive.
When teaching a diverse group
of students, whether they are English
language learners or English
speakers but have a
different cultural background, it's important to be mindful
of the cultural differences in students» behaviour.
This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite
of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state speaks a
different language at home, has no chance
of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English
speakers; instead it will exacerbate it, to be followed by more civil rights pressure on our universities to lower their academic standards still further in an attempt to achieve equal outcomes, in a vicious cycle that will continue the degradation
of America's civil and academic life.
The first
of the exhibition's environments is a five - channel audio installation portraying a series
of mirrored
speakers enact play excerpts from an 11th - century «mirror for prince» text in five
different languages.
Unlike scientific names, common names are almost always
different for
speakers of different languages.