Sentences with phrase «human speech and language»

In recent years birdsong has become the focus of many scientists interested in the cognitive, neural, genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying human speech and language.

«It's been suggested,» Dudley explains, «that the emergence of human speech and language bears a relationship with schizophrenia genetics and, incidentally, autism.»

Not exact matches

Some parents raising children in the smartphone and tablet era limit their kids» «screen time,» because they believe emerging research that shows that speech and language development hinges on everyday human interactions.

The app centers around a colorful feed, which Reddy also says has a combination of AI (natural language processing also analyzes every post) and human moderation to make sure that users retain their free speech but don't engage in targeted harassment and other negativity.

But the word can be spoken and heard in the authentic experience of reconciliation, and it stands in the language of the Gospel as the Word of God clothing itself in human speech and opening the way for the language of redemption to be spoken between God and man.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to the Oxford English Dictionary, focuses on the study of «computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence — such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision - making, and translation between languages».

Let us begin with language, perhaps the most fundamental of all studies because of the fact that speech is so clearly a distinguishing feature of human beings within the whole created order and because it is so essential to the effective conduct of all human affairs, including every aspect of education.

It is after all rather important to emphasize that in a seventh - century text, predating all reflection on language, wherever that reflection may have occurred, we find this clear statement: the fact of human speech comes from God; but language is made up by the human race, which decides for itself — arbitrarily — the words, the rules, and the syntax.

He devoted profound and penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that no one had ever devoted more profound and more penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization than the sage of Tegel.

Conceived as the introduction to an analysis of the Kawi language of Java, this book actually is the ripest fruit of the great linguist's interest in human speech and its products, an interest that lasted throughout his life.

Ironically, most of the research into the evolutionary basis of language has focused so far on a single function — speech perception — which is unique to humans, and thus evolutionary precursors are hard, if not impossible, to identify.

Just as belittling Darwin and Chomsky personally does not really rebut their science, condemning Wolfe's rhetorical juvenility does not confront the substance of his thesis — that humans invented speech (and subsequent forms of language derived from it)-- and that evolution had nothing to do with it.

The human «language gene» has helped us learn the rules of speech and maybe even grammar

Early in her graduate school career at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Maye (pictured right) decided she wanted to focus on psycholinguistics, a relatively new branch of linguistics that draws on cognitive sciences, including psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, speech and hearing, and neural imaging to explain how humans learn language.

«They help us to understand how the FOXP2 gene might have been important in the evolution of the human brain and direct us towards neural mechanisms that play a role in speech and language acquisition.»

The results reveal important insights into the neural networks needed to understand speech, hinting that perhaps both humans and dogs may have relied on similar networks that were already in place before language evolved, and later adapted to process speech.

The scientists say their study, published in Frontiers of Neuroscience, opens a pathway to studying bat brains in order to understand certain human language disorders and potentially even improving computer speech recognition.

The discovery was a surprise finding for investigators Lori Altmann, an associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Chris Hass, an associate professor of applied physiology and kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Performance.

Human beings speak more than 6,000 distinct language, and each language allows some ways to combine speech sounds into sequences but prohibits others.

Those who advocate the idea that human language has genetic origins will take heart at a new discovery: University of Oxford researchers have pinpointed a genetic mutation that seems to be responsible for a rare speech and language disorder.

«But genes tied to autism tend to affect specific functions, such as the connections between brain regions that are essential to many human - specific behaviors, like speech and language.»

The scientists say their study, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, opens a pathway to studying bat brains in order to understand certain human language disorders and potentially even improving computer speech recognition.

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For instance, humans and Neanderthals share unique mutations in a gene linked to speech and language called FOXP2.

Proposing that human ancestors made the switch from gestures to speech quite recently — he puts the date at around 50,000 years ago, a mere yesterday in evolutionary terms — Mr. Corballis believes that language itself, and the sophisticated mental capacities necessary to produce it, are far older.

Human - specific increase of dopaminergic innervation in a striatal region associated with speech and language: A comparative analysis of the primate basal ganglia.

Scientists can tell from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies that the areas of the brain devoted to speech and language are exceptionally large in humans.

Scripts always seem to operate like they were crudely translated from another language, retaining the basics of narrative movement and human speech but... off, somehow.

Google defines AI as «the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision - making, and translation between languages».

Dr. Katie Slocombe from the University of York's Department of Psychology, said: «A special speech register, known as infant - directed speech, is thought to aid language acquisition and improve the way a human baby bonds with an adult.

Researchers decided to look into this pet - directed speech, which is similar to the tone of voice used for human babies «known to engage infants» attention and promote language learning.»

Dogs, however, do not have conversations in human speech — their beautiful, complex language is one of ear flicks, tail wags, shifts in body weight, a wrinkling of the nose, and a quick spark in or hardening of the eye.

Infant - directed speech (IDS) is a special speech register thought to aid language acquisition and improve affiliation in human infants.

For humans, the terms «speech» and «talk» are not restricted to vocalization, but encompass human body language (which most of us read without realizing it), gestural languages (sign language) and tactile languages (of deaf - blind individuals) which are equally expressive among those fluent in their use.

When talking to dogs, human adults use pet - directed speech similar to infant - directed speech (high pitch, slow tempo), which is known to engage infant attention and promote language learning.

Using theory, philosophers, pop music, current affairs and corporate rhetoric as alibis to write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive scripts, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the automation of speech, outsourced subjectivity, mutated human resources and the short - circuiting of language as it transforms into labour.

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways: by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figurative language and figures of speech.

All species communicate with body language, and as humans we developed this communication skill before speech.

Passionate about working in the speech pathology / audiology field, familiar with human anatomy / human physiology, physiology of speech mechanisms, language disorders and development of signing and medical terminology.

Meeting someone in person gives us a chance, as humans, to listen to our intuition by analysing their body language, speech tone and overall behaviour.