Sentences with phrase «human language works»

There are no theories that explain fully how human language works, so maybe animal vocalizations and the way that they signal to each other can give us insight into our own minds and how we represent and understand the world.

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If you're familiar with the works of Steven Pinker, you'll recognize the incredible importance that language has played in human history in the preservation of information (stories being used to because they were... * SURPRISE!

«Every technology has human beings working within it, and design offers a language and a way of communicating to complement the rapidly evolving technologies.

Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

A language that unites divine and human does need to be carefully worked out, but the question is certainly not absurd or unintelligible.

Whitehead's use of assumptions dating back to Descartes and Locke in his account of perception leaves him vulnerable to the criticisms introduced by the revolution in philosophic method taking place at the time he was writing his major works, one in which the analysis of the functioning of language was replacing psychological introspection as the principal method for understanding human thought.

12 Herman's more recent work indicates that language experience affects what features are attended to by both dolphins and human beings in sign recognition.

God's creative action in history works in human language to make it the vehicle of truth instead of lies, and of reconciliation instead of hurt and destructive bitterness.14 In Jesus» work of atonement he spoke the words of forgiveness and reconciliation and he spoke them as indicatives and imperatives of the spirit.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

The early tract and missionary societies enlarged their work of rescuing human wrecks of economic competition, and they began to pay more attention to the immigrant through language classes and employment agencies.

In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

Buchler often uses language to evoke a rich texture of meanings, rather than to offer a single precise definition for any concept or idea.16 (This style is more prevalent in the works on human process than in MNC.)

Thorpe stated that he personally had found Whitehead's thought of little help in relation to his own work on animal behaviour which was largely concerned with birdsong, but I think Suzanne Langer has shown that it may indeed be illuminating to think of problems of animal communication and eventually human language in terms of instructions, subjective aims or feelings, rather than in terms of information and description of states of affairs.

I should, however, also remark that the more subtle developments of Whitehead's thought seem to have been the inspiration for one of the most thorough and impressive discussions of the evolution of human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised soon.

... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs - about the relationship between faith, the life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.

-- Discover what eurythmy reveals about human development — Work your way through the development of the child by means of exercises appropriate to each developmental phase — See how the Waldorf curriculum comes to life through movement and gesture — Learn about the interplay between eurythmy and academic experiences — Acquire the language and understanding to talk about eurythmy to Waldorf parents in a valuable way — Work, play, laugh, and have fun!

That is one of the many questions about the human trait of language acquisition that Maye, who is affiliated with Northwestern's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been pursuing since she began her undergraduate work at Seattle Pacific University in Washington in 1989.

The work, described in tomorrow's Science, may also provide new clues to human language learning.

The work might provide insights into human language learning, says Richard Mooney, who studies bird song learning at Duke University Medical Center.

«Crowdsourcing is essential because people are still much better than machines at interpreting natural human language,» says Yubin Kim of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, who is working on a similar system.

Bob Holmes's article on the human capacity for language (5 April, p 11) features the work of researchers Jennifer Culbertson...

Christine Kenneally's provocative article is a welcome airing of scientific work on human language (29 May, p 32).

The accompanying changes in behavior, especially among men, might have helped humans evolve more complex language, live atop each other in cities, and work together to create sophisticated cultures.

«The goal of this work is to try to get the machine to learn language more like the way humans do,» says Jim Glass, a senior research scientist at CSAIL and a co-author on the paper describing the new system.

Working with human language is much harder for a computer.

Meanwhile, Michael Arbib, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, is working on a variant of the gestural theory based on the discovery of similarities in the way human brains recognize language and monkey brains recognize gestures.

Makuuchi, M., Bahlmann, J., Anwander, A. & Friederici, A. D. Segregating the core computational faculty of human language from working memory.

If a group of decidedly anti-social tolls decided to make a film about relationships despite lacking any working knowledge in the areas of human behavior, cinematic craft or the basic cadences of the English language, what they might come up with would only begin to approximate what Wiseau slapped together.

Rowe comes to HGSE from the University of Maryland where she worked as an assistant professor of human development in the college of education, leading a research program on understanding the role of parents and family factors in children's early language and literacy development.

She is working on a project funded by the Institute of Education Science, U.S. Department of Education, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, using multiple approaches such as using eye - tracking technology to investigate growth of silent reading, video - taping and coding classroom instruction, and coding thousands of children's oral language and writing samples.

Whatever livelihoods the students someday choose, Stanford's educators believe they will need to work with people from different countries, in different languages, in the realms of business, politics, and human understanding.

All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom's work — her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart — come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.

That said, for those of us who have heard again and again that dogs are just domesticated wolves living in a «pack» of humans — and who hasn't heard that more times than you can count, thanks to the popularization of the concept on TV — it might be helpful to learn all the scientific reasoning behind how wolves and dogs are different (and how we misunderstood wolves and their pack interactions for a very, very long time), why those «alpha dog» approaches aren't the best way to relate to your dog (and in fact, can even cause more problems), and why alternate approaches like positive reinforcement and reading the body language of a dog as a dog and not a mini wolf do work.

That need to work is key to understanding how Chaser has been able to learn more human language than any other non-primate — and, in fact, more than almost any primate.

I rely on animal body language in my work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, transforming the animal subjects into human psychological portraits.

For instance, Resort III (2013), which is placed in the entrance to the gallery, uses the language of mineral precipitation to investigate the dependency of humans upon their habitat, whilst blocks are incorporated into the feet of the standing works to exaggerate their precariousness.

Opening: «Martin Wong: Voices» at P.P.O.W Concurrent with his retrospective «Human Instamatic» on view at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, P.P.O.W presents Voices, an exhibition of more than 100 works focusing on language as the source of Martin Wong's artistic practice.

Talking Continents demonstrates Plensa's ability to create thought - provoking work that reimagines and represents the human figure with an original and innovative language.

Her works concern the relationship between technology and human perception and how we communicate the scale of this through language.

Her work often explores important topics such as contemporary black identity, queer theory, and the power of human language, seen through video, performance, writing and other new media.

The results are large - scale abstract works that connect past and present, formalism and intuition, languages of color theory and human rights legislation.

Celebrated for his performance - based works that circle around language and the human body, this exhibition of some 30 prints spanning the years 1970 — 2006 reveals the extent to which printmaking links to Nauman's wider artistic practice.

For this new series of printed transparent work (which is a continuation of his earlier series «Death Imitates Language») Van den Dorpel focuses on the structure of «nesting»: a strong organizing principle found in architecture, software development and human language.

The 80s would see the Bacon simplifying his pictorial language; his figurative work would often allude to human form rather than always depicting it.

The influential Korean artist who fuses Eastern and Western philosophy to make works that concentrate attention on the slowness of experience, the encounter of human and natural orders, and the silent language of things.

Jeff Danley's expressive figurative work interprets the minute language of the human body as it moves through time and place.

For example, a large skin of crystal glows with the warmth of the human hand as it is touched, a self - supporting arch made of glass filaments is flame - worked entirely by passers - by, and a dying tradition of glass bangles looks to the human hand to reconstruct its language.

He is creating an evolving language based on typographical alphabets, but deliberately declines to offer an accompanying dictionary.Parts of his sculptures often resemble the human body: tongues, limbs, eyes, and casts of his family's fists appear among the forms — directly referring to our bodies as we move through the gallery and around his works.