Sentences with phrase «who studies language»

Comics Neil Cohn, who studies the language of comics, offers his thoughts on why some people have trouble reading comics.

«Because I deal with «just» words and sometimes pictures, scientists don't think the work is as rigorous as theirs,» says Jesch, adding that, as someone who studies languages and literature, she follows scientists» work but doesn't count herself among them.

Law is, after all, a language game (in the serious sense of game), and it helps to see what the folks who study language per se have to say about it.

Not exact matches

He is an artist and language fanatic who studied cognitive psychology, computer science, and visual arts and who wears shorts that could be confused for pants, or vice versa.

In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.

The Tower of Babel is so obviously idiotic that only someone who'd never studied liguistics or even a foreign language could buy it.

It is a close study of the thought and language of John Paul II, who taught the Church and the world to understand the contest of the culture of life versus the culture of death.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

Those who have had even a modicum of language study, however, should opt for one of the first five concordances — or one of the other original - language competitors.

Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which often cite words from the original languages.

And if you're a pastor who saw the value of exegetical research while in seminary but no longer have the time to do it each week, BibleWorks can help you continue the process of studying the original languages, even if you're short on time or a bit rusty on all the details of language study.

The project has two subjects, Koko and Michael, who have learned to use American Sign Language (Ameslan), to understand spoken English, and to read printed words.10 Koko's instruction, begun in 1973, is the longest ongoing language study of an ape, and the only one with continuous instruction by the same teacher.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

Then when someone does actually learn the languages, and then says they are not worthwhile, people who have studied them longer jump all over them and say, «Well, if you had only taken four years instead of two.»

Ken Olson, «Eusebius of Caesarea Tradition and Innovations», Center for Hellenic Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press (2013), wrote «Both the language and the content have close parallels in the work of Eusebius of Caesarea, who is the first author to show any knowledge of the text.

This type of confusion is common among people who have erroneous ideas about the origin of the earth and so never bothered to study linguistics... if god gave us ready made language, why bother?

Because it is education that must proceed indirectly by way of the examination of texts and practices whose study is believed to lead to understanding God and all else in relation to God, and because those texts and practices employ ordinary languages belonging to widely shared cultures and do themselves have cultural locations, such education is inescapably a public undertaking, understandable to anyone who understands the relevant languages and cultures.

Practitioners of religious studies who flooded sessions of the American Academy of Religion now often employed their own technical language, which served to legitimate the discipline's status as a science.

One of the best pieces of advice I had from Mary Ellen Chase, that superb teacher I was privileged to study with in college, was that anybody who was seriously considering writing as a profession must be completely familiar with the King James translation of the Bible, because the power of this great translation is the rock on which the English language stands.

He was a Belgian trained in law who lived in Taiwan, where he studied Chinese language, culture, and literature, and then made an academic career in Australia.

For me, people who have studied the languages and cultures of the Bible can shed light underneath some of the stories and bring them to life as I see how what is written fits into the life back then.

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».

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children who were breastfed for more than six months scored the highest on cognitive, language and motor development tests as toddlers, in a new study from Greece.

In addition, many of the interviews were conducted directly from the script by Spanish language interpreters who were unaware of the nature or status of the study; their results were not different from those of the investigators.

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.

Studies have also specifically shown a delay in language development for children under age 2 who watch TV and baby videos.

This is a result of the fact that only women who understood the Dutch language could be enrolled in the study.

Increasing amounts of research have shown that infants and toddlers have a critical need for direct interactions with parents and other regular caregivers for healthy brain growth.82, — , 84 In addition, the results of 7 studies have shown that infants younger than 18 months who are exposed to TV may suffer from a delay in language development, and 1 study revealed that infant videos may delay language development.85, — , 91 No studies have documented a benefit of early viewing.92

Yet those who do «blow bubbles» and display other complex mouth movements like licking their lips tend to pick up language more quickly as toddlers, a recent study found.

Studies have shown that sign language was a practical way for parents to communicate with small children who do not know yet how to talk and it is also good for the emotional and cognitive development of the little children.

In a fourteen - year study, the preschool children of mothers who described a picture using emotional language showed more empathy and better social skills when they got older.

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 study.

According to a study conducted by Stanford University researchers and published in Psychological Science in 2013, toddlers who are exposed to more words at a young age have a larger vocabulary and better language proficiency later on.

But a 2009 study conducted at Italy's International School for Advanced Studies showed that bilingual babies have vocabularies in each language (about 50 words at 18 months) that are comparable to those of babies who are learning only one.

A lot of the most interesting work in this field has come out of the lab of Amanda Woodward, a psychologist at the University of Chicago who came to the subject after studying language development in graduate school.

... the proportion of pupils who are studying history, geography, a language and three sciences at GCSE is increasing.

The study found that a number of young people who had suffered from language problems in childhood often still find it difficult to understand speech as young adults, especially when spoken quickly.

«Progress has already been made in understanding first language reading problems — so we co-operated with psychologists who studied a group of dyslexic readers over many years.

There, he worked with Annette Karmiloff - Smith, an expert in developmental neurocognition who had recently received a grant to study number processing in children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that can lead to a puzzling cognitive profile: a relative strength in language coupled with severe deficiencies in visual - spatial cognition and number processing.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

OUR ability to solve spatial tasks may be linked to our linguistic skills, say researchers who studied the effect of sign language on spatial cognition.

The most intense course of study, which Shenoi calls the «MacGyver Track,» imparts hardware, software, and foreign - language skills to students who intend to join the intelligence community.

Jennie Pyers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and colleagues studied two groups of deaf people who learned to communicate using Nicaraguan sign language.

When it comes to languages, the Pama - Nyungan tree «gives us the first and only hypothesis of the higher - level branching of the Pama - Nyungan family,» says Harold Koch, a historical linguist at ANU who was not involved in the Nature study, although he was Bowern's undergraduate adviser.

The research team led by Ji - Young Choi, an assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies, found dual - language learners (DLLs) had significant growth, eventually outperforming students who only spoke English, once DLLs gained basic English proficiency.

But people who have this stroke just before or after birth recover their language abilities in the mirror image spot on the right side, a study of teens and young adults shows.

The subjects who'd had little exposure to the Internet before the study showed activity in brain regions involved in vision, language and reading.

Women who experience extreme morning sickness during pregnancy are three times more likely to have children with developmental issues, including attention disorders and language and speech delays, than woman who have normal nausea and vomiting, a UCLA study has found.

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.

For the study, Hoff and her collaborators David Giguere, a graduate research assistant at FAU and Jamie M. Quinn, a graduate research assistant at Florida State University, used longitudinal data on children who spoke English and Spanish as first languages and who were exposed to both languages from birth.