Sentences with phrase «language experience on»

185 Patricia K. Kuhl, S. Kirtani, T. Deguchi, A. Hayashi, E. B. Stevens, C. D. Dugger, and P. Iverson, «Effects of language experience on speech perception: American and Japanese infants» perception of / ra / and / la /,» Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102:3135 (1997).

But the impact of language experience on brain activity is not well understood, Luk says.

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«These changes will reflect the relative value Canadian employers place on foreign work experience, and redirect points to language and age factors, which are better indicators of success in the Canadian labour market.»

The points system sees would - be immigrants graded on a scale of 100, with points awarded for language ability, age, education, work experience and adaptability to Canada.

«Body language is 70 percent of being an effective communicator, how you say it is 23 percent and content is only 7 percent,» he estimates, offering a breakdown based on his own personal experiences.

Let's face it, it's not always easy to stay on top of things when you're catching flights, experiencing tech issues and dealing with language barriers.

Watching yourself on video can be a cringeworthy experience, but awareness of your body language, posture, and mannerisms improves your confidence.

Bar graphs represent skills and languages; a Google Analytics - style map shows his educational background, and his «Experience» section allows potential employers to click on the various positions to get more information about each of his roles.

Every trip provides an opportunity to experience local culture, go on thrill - seeking adventures, learn a new language, and volunteer abroad.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

The whole church needs help in avoiding the depersonalization of God as we seek to overcome the limitations imposed on our Christian experience by male - oriented language.

It is obvious that in dealing with subtle metaphysical questions, the «ordinary language,» which is based exclusively on the limited macro-scopic experience, is thoroughly inadequate.

Eliade interprets Christian experience on the basis of cross-cultural parallels irrespective of their historical contexts, which divide humanity on the basis of language, geography and religion.

On the basis of the recognition that a language embodies interpretations, philosophers often make this point by denying the existence of any prelinguistic experience.

He must probe further, studying the religious experience on which theology and other modes of expression (behavior, rites, language) are based.

Metaphor, which serves as a medium that provides insight into Jesus» parabolic language, is a comparison based on everyday objects or experiences.108 In the words of Wilder,»... a true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign, it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers.

The primary way the Scriptures describe this is through the language and imagery of resurrection, which in turn is based on the experience of waking from sleep or coming to consciousness from an unconscious state.

Consequently, many of us spent the next decade working through an answer to the question of the meaning of religious language in terms of ordinary experience, in terms of a «revision» or «re-presentation» of the Christian tradition «intelligible to modern minds,» and worked on formulating an appropriate and strong political theology.

I picked up on the language you employed that you probably have experience with AA or some like - minded 12 - step group.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Even anti-experiential theologians rely on the faith that God is revealed through scripture, creed, tradition, reason, story, history, or language — a faith which (after the empiricists have left the room) will be justified only in that it is trusted, where «trusted» usually means experienced in a way that is convincing.

Theology may have moved on from the «God is dead» phase of the sixties, but to many in the West the language of religion and even more the reality of spiritual experience is still alien.

His colleague George Lindbeck added an insistence on the primacy of language over experience and a theory about religion as a cultural - symbolic medium.

From Barth this movement has accepted the radical separation of the divine and the secular, of God and ordinary experience, and so of theological language and philosophy; and it approves his further separation of Christianity and religion, and the consequent centering of all theological and religious concerns solely on Jesus Christ.

Sabio: Our language to describe such things is insufficient, because our language is largely based on sensory experience.

On the contrary, there is for them a more «realistic» insistence on the use of language as being of necessity the symbols for that which we experience or observOn the contrary, there is for them a more «realistic» insistence on the use of language as being of necessity the symbols for that which we experience or observon the use of language as being of necessity the symbols for that which we experience or observe.

Feminists who claim that women are denied access to their own reality are supported by Whitehead's insistence that implicit notions of what is important are embedded in language, thereby imposing perspectives of importance on what is experienced (MT 15).

On this view language and other cultural forms have a self - generating character; this view of cultural systems gives us an alternative to thinking of the interiority of experience in mental terms.

We are concerned with their effort to be metaphoric in their reflection, staying close to the parabolic form with its insistence on using common language in novel ways to evoke insight, with its emphasis on the narrative quality of believing, its foundation in experience, and with both language and belief rooted in a total life - style.

He approaches this through the symbolism of biblical language and focuses on three original human experiences: original solitude, original unity and original nakedness.

A newly hired director of food experience will focus on the front of the house part of the business - the branding, specific language that staff uses and the design of employee uniforms.

I'm on the left, I support the Democratic party, I detest racism (particularly as someone who has experienced its ugliness), but I get some of the arguments made by the right when it comes to language vigilance and accusation, because I've seen far too many situations when people have tried their darndest to ally with identity positions they don't share or rally behind causes that don't necessarily reflect their own subject position, only to have it backfire spectacularly because they didn't do it right or say it right.

Now, some of the stuff in the book can be a little out there such as the «orgasmic delivery» experiences (literally having an orgasm while giving birth) and the language does sometimes border on the overly hippy - ish, but I found it endearing and it doesn't subtract from the information at all.

We believe children learn best in an environment rich in experiences that focus on language development, academic centers, social / emotional development, artistic expression and fine / gross motor development.

«This is the way Sam puts on his coat, puts on his coat, puts on his coat...» Every time you read, talk, sing or rhyme with a child you are providing the early language experiences that lead to reading.

She now speaks on the connection between our mammalian heritage and our birth and breastfeeding experiences, as well as on our breastfeeding language and how mothers and babies make breastfeeding work.

The teacher works with a team of educators to implement a multi-sensory, hands - on / minds - on, nature - based science curriculum; incorporating emergent language and math experiences along with creative arts, music, cooking and the development of social skills.

«Women see images on formula packaging and think their experience of feeding their child should be just like that, but the idealising language and pictures on the formula tins are ridiculous, because all of the products have a huge risk in comparison to breastfeeding,» Rundall told Al Jazeera.

Alas, Farage had used exactly that language just an hour or so earlier when he appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain and described his experience of Calais:

We want to focus on the problems with our current lack of available language to describe women's experiences that acknowledges, names and confronts the issues women spoke of in our interviews.»

«On the other hand, if these seemingly different abilities are carried out by overlapping cognitive mechanisms or brain areas, then experience with musical pitch processing should affect language pitch processing, and vice versa.»

For balanced bilinguals, on the other hand, the skin conductance amplitudes were similar, I concluded that languages reliably elicit emotional arousal and the subjective experience of emotionality when they are learned and used in emotional contexts.

It's all part of what IBM calls the cognitive systems era, in which computers aren't just programmed, but also perceive what's going on, make judgments, communicate with natural language, and learn from experience.

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Eden and her colleagues report on a new structural brain imaging study that shows, in addition to deafness, early language experience — English versus ASL — impacts brain structure.

«Prior research studies comparing brain structure in individuals who are deaf and hearing attempted to control for language experience by only focusing on those who grew up using sign language,» explains Olumide Olulade, PhD, the study's lead author and post-doctoral fellow at GUMC.

Abner relies primarily on the Ruby on Rails platform and his experience with server - side programming languages to create back - ends to support rich internet experiences.

If you make the decision to start your vacation on a positive note — saying hello to the person next to you before you curl up to sleep on the plane, smiling at the taxi driver who picks you up from the airport, learning how to say «thank you» in a new language — you can set yourself up for a wonderful experience.

The actress also spoke about losing a front tooth on The Ellen DeGeneres Show back in 2010, using very similar language to describe the experience.

As for future books, I'd love to see something on brain health and all the ways one can help an aging brain regain and stay healthy — through diet, exercise, sleep, cold exposure, heat exposure, sunlight, social engagement, new experiences, learning a new language or musical instrument, even using low dose psychedelics.