Sentences with phrase «what language researchers»

The experiment confirmed what language researchers have long maintained: the key to comprehension is familiarity with the relevant subject.

Not exact matches

What makes researchers particularly interested in people's failure to notice words that actually don't make sense, so called semantic illusions, is that these illusions challenge traditional models of language processing which assume that we build understanding of a sentence by deeply analysing the meaning of each word in turn.

The researchers conclude that the successful spread of even the earliest known toolmaking technology, more than 2 million years ago, would have required the capacity for teaching, and probably also the beginnings of spoken language — what the researchers call protolanguage.

By videotaping samples of children's and parents» speech and gestures during interactions at home, the researchers were able to examine in what way and how often gestures were used to communicate, and whether that might help predict the child's language acquisition.

«The brains of the two people are brought together thanks to language, and communication creates links between people that go far beyond what we can perceive from the outside,» added the researcher from the Basque research centre.

I realize that Gavin is writing for fellow climate researchers rather than such as I who only have a medical doctorate, but surely there is some language, Gavin, that could more clearly, in plain English, describe what his objections, in the main, are, to those who raise some doubts as to the long - term climate record and what may have caused previous warmings.

Researchers at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a small region of the brain that has been predominantly associated with language production, is also responsible for language comprehension — blurring the lines on what has been a fundamental concept in psychology.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

This new work — led by Harvard and MIT Ph.D. student Rachel Romeo, with coauthors at both of those institutions and the University of Pennsylvania — builds on what researchers have long known about the connections between «home language environment» and children's cognitive development, literacy and language growth, and verbal ability.

The demands of standardized testing often force schools instead to emphasize rote learning in English, neglecting the incredible asset of children's native languages and much of what researchers have discovered about how children learn second languages.

Health care providers, researchers, and also insurance companies and regulators need a common language to refer to what patients have.

In a study recently published in Nature Communications, researchers have found that sperm whales not only have such a language system, but that they seem to have distinct dialects, suggesting that these whales use cultural learning to form multilevel, social structures, where individual whales with the same behaviours seem to band together in what the scientists are calling «clans.»

Eliot Fishman, a researcher formerly at Utrecht University and now at Australia's Institute for Sensible Transport, reviewed the English - language bike share literature and found out what makes bike share systems around the globe popular.

John: If a picture is worth a thousand words and researchers indicate that over 70 percent of what we are, or what we communicate rather, is through our tone and body language, not through our words, doesn't that make images, audio and video an incredibly important part of influencing website visitors?

With Lexis Answers, a researcher can ask a natural - language question and get back the single - best answer in the form of what Lexis is calling a Lexis Answer Card.

If a picture is worth a thousand words and researchers indicate that over 70 percent of what we communicate is through our tone and body language, not just through our words, doesn't that make images, audio and video an incredibly important part of influencing website visitors?

In what researchers call «language style matching»» (or LSM, for short), individuals» conversations may begin to subtly become synchronous.