Sentences with phrase «language loss»

Next, they looked for correlations between language loss and factors such as a country's gross domestic product and levels of globalization as calculated by an internationally recognized index.

In addition, they examined environmental factors such as altitude, which might contribute to language loss by affecting how easily communities can communicate and travel.

Two types of language loss hotspots emerged from the study, published online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Monika Schmid, a linguist at the University of Essex and a leading expert on language loss, gives me another explanation: It's always easier to listen than to produce.

It's well known that economic growth or the desire to achieve it can drive language loss, he notes — dominant languages such as Mandarin Chinese and English are often required for upward mobility in education and business, and economic assistance often encourages recipients to speak dominant languages.

The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type of language dementia, primary progressive aphasia (PPA), provides important new insights into the beginning stages of this disease — which results in language loss — when it is caused by a buildup of a toxic protein found in Alzheimer's disease.

And just as the biosphere is being eroded, so is the ethnosphere, and at a far greater rate with one of the greatest indicators being language loss Now, language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules — language is a flash of the human spirit.

The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey found high levels of acculturative stress in children living in regional centres where language loss was occurring.

Schmid, the language loss expert, agrees, but also points me to a case study in which a Frenchman remembered speaking Mina, the language of the West African country of Togo, when he was a young boy.

Of all the variables tested, economic growth was most strongly linked to language loss, Amano says.

«Dementia plaques attack language center of brain: Peering into brains of living persons with Alzheimer's language dementia offers insight into disease process, language loss.»

Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico where she teaches courses related to Indigenous education, language loss and revitalization, and research issues in Native Studies.