Sentences with phrase «learn language»

«Every child has to have some sort of internal capacity that allows them to learn language.»

After researchers discovered in 2004 that FOXP2 is expressed in the same areas of the brain in humans and zebra finches, a song - learning bird, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin began to investigate whether such birds could help scientists understand how humans learn language.

«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.

How children learn language is one of the oldest controversies in linguistics.

That isn't so; native English speakers simply lack incentives to learn another language.

This is why a domesticated canine can be referred to as dog in English, hond in Dutch, and inu in Japanese — and why it takes hard work to learn any language.

The rapid development of new life science technologies is creating a new niche for physicists willing to learn the language of biology.

Falk says when determining how the lack of direct speech impacts Tsimané children's ability to learn language, she would like to know about the acoustic features of the speech they do receive.

The curve may also explain why some children learn language faster than others: they might have been exposed to more words or have better short - term memory.

In the New Mexico pueblos, Axelrod meets many young Native Americans who are anxious to learn their language so they can speak to their grandparents and elders.

In other words, children don't need to learn language per se.

In all human cultures, it takes little effort for children to learn the language (s) spoken by those around them.

«Responsive interactions key to toddlers» ability to learn language.»

«Helping children learn language, develop cognitive skills.»

And Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies how infants learn language and was only an infant himself when Chomsky first outlined his theory, has attempted to explain this ambitious quest in a provocative book, The Language Instinct (Review, 26 February).

«Most people assumed that I was Japanese, so when I told people, like train conductors, that I couldn't read a map, they would shake their head and say something like, «kids these days...»» Still, he says, «You should try to learn the language.

In recent years, however, growing evidence indicates that, while infants use memory to learn language and make sense of the world around them, they do not yet have the sophisticated neural architecture needed to form and hold onto more complex forms of memory.

Both songbirds and humans are not born with the ability to speak or sing, but must learn their language or song by listening to others, a process called vocal imitation learning or simply vocal learning.

«To an evolutionary biologist,» said Newberry, «it's important that language is maintained through a process of copying language; people learn language by copying other people.

«We don't think people are «born believers» in the same way we inevitably learn a language at an early age.

The solution to the dissonance, Jensen says, is to understand the values and learn the language and skills of your new world but still retain your values.

A wealth of new studies, she said, suggest that children learn language from listening to others but are not as well - equipped as adults to cope with the cacophony of modern life.

Scientists have long suspected that there is a critical developmental period during which children must learn a language.

Keeping them engaged — that's what helps them learn language.»

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.

How does an infant learn language?

And nonhuman primates can learn to find the boundaries between words, but they don't learn language at all.»

Her advice is simple and mirrors almost every other foreigner interviewed: Learn the language.

«Learn the language and culture of the different fields so you can bridge them,» says Whitman.

We look for students for whom it is fun to share ideas and who have the patience to learn the language and culture of different areas of science.

The genetic record is «like a lost library... and we're just starting to learn the language of all those books that we have uncovered,» says Johannes Krause, director of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

You may even decide you need to learn the language of computational modeling to better understand the spread of an outbreak of the H1N1 virus — and you'll need a mentor who can teach and guide you on that path.

The new study suggests that the way children learn a language may play a critical role in constructing these linguistic rules.

Kita suggests that this could have had an evolutionary advantage, helping to reinforce linguistic bonds by making it more difficult for those who grew up outside of a social group to learn its language.

Budding entrepreneurs need to learn the language of finance, marketing, and business strategy.

The curiosity, passion, or interest that drives a student to learn another language points to a latent cultural sensitivity that can motivate an engineer to integrate better into a local community, he says.

Conor Burns uses his maiden speech to highlight the absurdity that potential English language students from overseas have to learn the language before they can come to Britain... to learn the language

But at 19, the Sudanese immigrant had just two years to learn the language and pass five Regents exams before he would age out of the traditional public school system.

It will be compulsory for primary school children aged seven and above to learn another language, from September 2014 in England.

«Oh, Frank is just a great American story, I mean, the guy came to America at 14 years old, had to learn the language.

Better alignment of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs with the needs of our English language learners, including expansion of the APPLE model, an alternative high school program for 17 - 18 year - old students to learn the language, graduate, and get a job or go to college.

At present we grant refugees the right to remain in the UK, but don't help them learn our language.

Children are naturally accepting of other children, it is only when they are told by society that someone is different that they learn the language of discrimination.

She needs to learn from your expressions and responses in order to learn language, emotions, and how to regulate herself emotionally.

How well all the wiring gets set up — that is, how your baby's brain develops — will affect her ability to learn language, solve problems, and do well in school.

If you serve overseas, you don't need to put your kids in school so that you can learn the language.

Rhyme can be extremely beneficial to a child's speech development because they learn how to speak with confidence and learn language through words and sounds.

They learn language from their peers.

Experts say this helps young babies learn language, but use a regular voice as your child gets older so he develops good language skills.

Generally, they grow taller, make advances in learning and memory, start showing emotions, learn language and gain strength to crawl, sit and take their first steps.