Sentences with phrase «of human language»

The evolution of human language built on capacities that were already present in the common ancestor of the three species, the psychologists report.

An analysis of 37 widely varying languages may have uncovered a universal feature of human language: All of the languages evolved to make communication as efficient as possible.

It refers to the genetic component of the human language faculty.

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.

According to this model, animal calls are fairly random and lack the complexity of human language.

But please be aware of the limitations of human language and of human concepts.

The diversity of human languages is subject to the same evaluation: each one is the result of a roll of the dice.

In fact, it is a system years in the making, and perhaps the most impressive attempt ever to create a question - answering computer that understands the nuances of human language.

A pup can and should be taught at least a few words of human language.

The book also discusses the more recent theoretical developments within the fields of human language and cognition.

A gene implicated in the evolution of human language may have also helped bats make sounds of their own.

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is technical jargon for computer understanding of human language (English in the case of Bot Colony).

► This week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column profiles neuroscientist Erich Jarvis, whose civil rights upbringing provide some tools for success as he pursued studies of human language via songbirds.

I remember sitting in an undergrad philosophy class at Hanover College in which the professor, discussing the limitations, nuances and intricacies of human language, explained to us that while we...

Babel aims to preserve the unity of human language and faith; Pentecost reunites.

Words are the basic building blocks of human language, but they are hardly ever found in nonhuman vocal communication.

«The ability to communicate through language is unique to human beings, and the existence of fully functional, complex languages in a different physical modality makes sign languages a natural laboratory for investigating the nature of human language and cognition in our species,» concluded Prof. Sandler.

Chaser isn't just learning objects by name: she's beginning to understand the basic structure of human language.

«Although there are many reasons to believe that signed and spoken languages should be neurobiologically quite similar, evidence of overlapping computations at this level of detail is still a striking demonstration of the fundamental core of human language,» adds senior author Liina Pylkkanen, a professor in New York University's Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychology.

Though the rules of human languages can and do vary, proponents of the generativist model argue they can only do so within strict parameters.

Thus, he concludes: «The sense of human languages and practices as the results of experimental self - creation rather than of an attempt to approximate to a fixed and ahistorical ideal..

The «pneumatological pattern» is a third «most appropriate way,» inspired by the work of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost causing God to be praised in a multiplicity of human languages.

But because the early church inherited from Hellenistic culture the love of penetrating into the truth by intellectual enquiry, the Christian thinkers of the West have too commonly concluded that they could define and delineate the being of God in the forms of human language with some confidence.

In Genesis 1 we do not see directly the creation of human language by God, but «we see something like the circulation of an underground river, before its appearance as a spring above ground.

By having God speak first, Genesis conceives of all human language as a response.

The local church is, further, because it speaks an idiom of human language, an instance of human society that distinguishes itself from many other kinds of societies by the high proportion of language it spends on struggle and grace.

This has always happened throughout church history, when new statements are brought forth to complete earlier insights in order to do justice to the inexhaustible riches of divine revelation even in the earthen vessel of human language.»

This known asymmetry has led researchers to investigate whether a similar left - hemispheric bias could be found in other animals, as a possible evolutionary precursor of human language.

It turns out that intonation is an essential component of any human language, including languages without sound,» explained Prof. Wendy Sandler, who led the study.

Fifty - three - year - old Steven Pinker may look like a rock star, but he is actually a linguistics explorer, hunting around the sentences and syntax of human language for clues (he calls them «rabbit holes») to the inner world of the human brain.

«Already we know they can understand a lot of human language and sign language.

The cultural foundations of human language is a story very much in the making, says Daniel Everett, because it must see off notions that language is innate

Together, these results demonstrate that the sound patterns of human language reflect shared linguistic constraints that are hardwired in the human brain already at birth.

The study is the first large - scale, multi-laboratory replication effort for the field of cognitive neuroscience and shows that the predictive function of the human language system may operate differently than the field has come to believe.

The ability to process the subtleties of human language helped IBM's Watson supercomputer win at «Jeopardy.»

If the dance bees use to communicate the source of pollen to their fellows evolved as a way of disguising this information from competitors [«Honeybees» Espionage Mission,» R&D, October], this may shed light on the puzzle of the bewildering array of human languages.

Linguists have noticed that, despite the huge variability of human languages, there are some preferences in the sound of words that can be found across languages.

Snedeker said she asks her students a question on exams to test their understanding of the shared structure and evolutionary basis of human language: «If we discover a new kind of creature on Mars that seems to have a symbolic system of great complexity, who should we send, and how likely are they to succeed?»

The story then jumps to Chomsky, the famous linguist, who had the temerity to claim that aspects of human language were genetically encoded in the human brain — though not necessarily installed by natural selection.