Sentences with phrase «study of a new language»

This does not mean that they should avoid the study of a new language.

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But according to a new study looking at the effects of PC language on mixed gender teams and published in Administrative Science Quarterly, watching your language also appears to work — at least if you're aiming to work constructively with a diverse group.

I know that getting here required many hours writing algorithms, studying computer architectures, learning new languages, fighting your way through problem sets, and holding your breath to see if your code compiles with no errors (and hopefully only a couple of warnings).

This talk leverages Harris» proprietary Gen Z study and panelist community to help any company speak the language of a new generation that is growing in esteem, influence and soon marketplace power.

The Renaissance renewed interest in the intellectual heritage of antiquity, whilst the new learning encouraged fresh study in their original languages of the scriptures, which as the source of faith were to be the inspiration of the Reformers.

Turgidity of language and argument belies its usefulness for the general reader, while its essentially descriptive character prevents the manifestation of anything profoundly new in relation to the ever - increasing corpuso f Newman studies that would require it to be essential reading for the scholar or expert.

A study of the linguistic principles of India in connection with Bible translation make clear that the New Testament Greek and the Indian languages stemmed from Sanskrit are two different kinds of languages.

While advancing to STL - level courses brought new opportunities, like studying Church Fathers and Scholastic theologians in their original languages, it also brought a new sense of isolation.

In fact our present Pope, whose pontificate hasbeen wholly focussed on the new millennium, has expressed his approval and encouragement to «all who in any way continue to foster, study and promote devotion to the Heart of Christ in the Church with language and forms adapted to our times».

Decades of research1 combined with new studies have confirmed the critical role of play in developing self - control, executive function skills, socio - emotional learning, problem solving, coordination, language processing... I could go on.

Breastfed babies show signs of early brain development, particularly in regions associated with language, emotional function and cognition, according to a new study at Brown University.

At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

While these findings are certainly important to language - development researchers who are seeking to tease out how, exactly, babies come to acquire language, it's important for parents to know that the results of this study shouldn't significantly affect how they help their children pick up new words, although it might help explain why babies pick up certain words in the order that they do.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- For young kids who are hard of hearing, the longer they wear a hearing aid, the better their speech and language skills, according to a new stuNEW YORK (Reuters Health)- For young kids who are hard of hearing, the longer they wear a hearing aid, the better their speech and language skills, according to a new stunew study.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised the Muslim community that it will promote the study of the Arabic language across the country in addition to its plans to restore allowances for teachers and nurses in training colleges, when voted into power.

Among other things, New York's draft ESSA plan takes some of the emphasis on math and English language arts and spreads it to science and social studies.

The failings of New Labour: From a Blue Labour perspective, Jonathan Rutherford, Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings, writes very well on the failings of New Labour (see page 88 of this Soundings e-book, which is based on a series of seminars on Blue Labour, from 2010 - 11): «The early years of New Labour — the pluralism, the ethical socialism, the stakeholding economy, the idea of a covenant of trust and reciprocity with the people, the emotional language that reignited popular hope — created a powerful and successful story.

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

Now, a new study presented at the Evolution of Language meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, last month shows that young speakers of one of these languages — Israeli Sign Language — have come up with richer, more grammatically complex ways of signing that use ever more parts of the body for different purposnew study presented at the Evolution of Language meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, last month shows that young speakers of one of these languages — Israeli Sign Language — have come up with richer, more grammatically complex ways of signing that use ever more parts of the body for different purposNew Orleans, Louisiana, last month shows that young speakers of one of these languages — Israeli Sign Language — have come up with richer, more grammatically complex ways of signing that use ever more parts of the body for different purposes.

Results from a series of studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to process sound is influenced by everything from playing music and learning a new language to aging, language disorders and hearing loss.

Studying for 12 months in another country teaches you a host of different lessons — from learning a new language to learning about yourself.

To determine whether infection with Candida affected any neurological responses, all participants in the new study took a 30 - minute assessment of cognitive tasks to measure immediate memory, delayed memory, attention skills, use of language and visual - spatial skills.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

The new study, published recently in the journal Educational Policy, is part of an emerging body of research examining the role that language reclassification plays in a student's education.

But the results of a new study, described in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge this so - called critical period hypothesis, suggesting that people can in fact process a second language in much the same way as they process their first.

To better understand this phenomenon, Joy Hirsch and her colleagues at the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City studied two groups of bilingual people: early bilinguals who learned a second language while growing up, and late bilinguals who learned as adults.

In a meta - analysis of studies that linked genetic markers to cultural heritage in North and Central America, Iceland, Australia, Africa and New Guinea, they found that only Y - chromosome DNA reflected the cultural origins of the local language.

Unlike with hearing spoken languages, listeners who understand this rare form of communication rely on both sides of their brains, a new study suggests.

As a whole, our study shows that we seem to use the same brain areas for native and new language structures and that Alienese was in the process of being integrated into the participants existing language brain networks.»

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.

A new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet shows that the «grammar» of the human genetic code is more complex than that of even the most intricately constructed spoken languages in the world.

A new study by MIT researchers indicates that when we process language, we often make these kinds of mental edits.

In a new study published in Nature, researchers in these two academic fields have joined forces at the University of Pennsylvania to solve an essential problem of how languages evolve: determining whether language changes occur by random chance or by a selective force.

Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

This week the approach takes a major step forward with a combined genetic and linguistic study that paints a picture of how people entered and spread across Australia, giving birth to new languages as they went.

By including members of a farming community that inhabit a common forest environment and speak a similar language, the new study indicates for the first time that the cultural practices of hunter - gatherers help enhance their odor - naming ability — and possibly their smell - detection skills — relative to settled peoples.

Like the intonation of individual spoken languages, sign languages also have their own unique «sound,» and, as with spoken languages, the intonation of one community's language is different from that of another community, according to a new study at the University of Haifa.

Children with Tourette syndrome may process aspects of language faster than other children, a new study shows.

A new study of how it changed shows that people who came from different language groups — or who lived a few hundred kilometres apart — were more likely to have children with each other than to exchange their version of the story.

Such is the scenario suggested by a new study, which finds a potential biological indicator of how well preschool children perceive rhythm, an ability linked to language development.

This new study reveals that the category of colors can be independent of language, at least in the early stage of development in an infant's visual system.

This method is already used by these researchers for clinical purposes, with stroke survivors, and it opens many new doors for the study of language perception.

Now, a new study of body cam footage from Oakland, California, suggests that officers of all races consistently use less respectful language with blacks than with whites during traffic stops.

«We have focused efforts for children who are deaf or hard of hearing on obtaining a language level that is often considered in the normal or average range on standardized assessments,» says Jareen Meinzen - Derr, PhD, an epidemiologist at Cincinnati Children's and lead author of a new study.

Nheengatú time reference is just one of the types of combinations of spoken and visual language that some linguists are beginning to suspect may be more common than is currently known; since historically many languages have been studied only based on written words and audio recordings, future scientific studies of video recordings may find new and unexpected types combinations of spoken and visual language that may have been previously invisible.

Now, a new study of young women in New York state shows that the same guttural vibration — once considered a speech disorder — has become a language fnew study of young women in New York state shows that the same guttural vibration — once considered a speech disorder — has become a language fNew York state shows that the same guttural vibration — once considered a speech disorder — has become a language fad.

To conduct the study, the researchers used four large databases of sentences that have been parsed grammatically: one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists), and a Chinese - language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.

Now a new study of 37 languages by three MIT researchers has shown that most languages move toward «dependency length minimization» (DLM) in practice.

Researchers have named it Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, which means «ancient grazer» in Inupiaq, the language of Alaska Inupiat Eskimos, according to the new study in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

A new study uses ancient DNA to suggest that a massive migration of herders from the east shaped the genomes of most living Europeans — and that these immigrants may have been the source of Proto - Indo - European (PIE), the mysterious ancestral tongue from which the more than 400 Indo - European languages sprang.