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Function Words in Everyday Speech
Voice of America English News
In today's report, you will learn about function words in everyday speech. Function words are pronouns, determiners, and conjunctions that...
34 months ago
The role of Function Words to build syntactic knowledge in French-speaking children
Nature
They are phonological approximations of a word and hold the place of FWs. They emerge at one-word utterances and continue to be produced...
33 months ago
Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests : Shots - Health News
NPR
When we talk, we focus on the "content" words — the ones that convey information. But the tiny words that tie our sentences together have a...
122 months ago
Book review: Psychology of pronouns is self-revealing
The Denver Post
NONFICTION: LANGUAGE. “The Secret Life of Pronouns” by James W. Pennebaker (Bloomsbury). James W. Pennebaker has spent much of his career...
157 months ago
14‐month‐olds exploit verbs’ syntactic contexts to build expectations about novel words - Babineau - 2020 - Infancy
Wiley Online Library
Abstract During their second year of life, infants develop a rudimentary understanding of grammatical categories based on their knowledge...
51 months ago
The Weird Sign You're Perfect For Each Other
Women's Health
People who use the same type of "function words" like pronouns, articles, and conjunctions including he, she, it, but, nor, and or are more...
127 months ago
Is this the most powerful word in the English language?
BBC
The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch.
57 months ago
Don’t say that: Cringe-worthy wordplay
Florida Today
Who knew so many people were skeeved out by “moist”? A moment of boredom last week morphed into an all-out assault on words in the English...
93 months ago
How Many Words Do We Know? Practical Estimates of Vocabulary Size Dependent on Word Definition, the Degree of Language Input and the Participant’s Age
Frontiers
Based on an analysis of the literature and a large scale crowdsourcing experiment, we estimate that an average 20-year-old native speaker of...
99 months ago
AdWords: Exact Match Not So Exact Anymore
Practical Ecommerce
You may have missed the blog post from AdWords on March 17 about the expansion of close variants. The second paragraph of that post reads,...
91 months ago
The Hidden Life of Modal Verbs
JSTOR Daily
A linguist explains why we get so distracted by the fiery language of politics, while ignoring urgent information reported by scientists.
71 months ago
TALK2US: Word Stress, Content and Function Words
Voice of America
TALK2US: Word Stress, Content and Function Words · 240p | 62.4MB · 360p | 88.1MB · 480p | 132.6MB · 720p | 409.7MB · 1080p | 376.3MB.
51 months ago
Vocabulary Growth in Lexical Categories Between Ages 13 and 24 Months as a Function of the Child’s Sex, Child, and Family Factors
Frontiers
We examined the vocabulary growth of lexical categories in 719 children (age 13–24 months) as part of a longitudinal cohort study (the STEPS Study) and...
4 months ago
Language patterns reveal body's hidden response to stress
Nature
Volunteers' use of certain words predicted stress-related changes in gene expression better than their self-reported feelings.
83 months ago
Comedy Can Teach You About Grammar, Speaking
Voice of America English News
In today's report, you will learn about how comedy can help you with speaking. You will learn about word stress - the act of saying certain...
52 months ago
Auxiliary Verbs in Everyday Speech
Voice of America English News
In today's report, you will learn about how auxiliary verbs are used in everyday speech. You will learn about important differences between...
33 months ago
Everyday Grammar: The Sounds of Grammar with Betty Azar
Voice of America
Grammar "rock star" and best-selling author Betty Azar explains why English learners have difficulty hearing important grammar words.
110 months ago
Grammar and Scary Movies
Voice of America English News
In today's Everyday Grammar, we explore some famous words from Scream, a scary movie. You will learn about questions, auxiliary verbs,...
36 months ago
News Words: Function
Voice of America English News
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8 months ago
Reduction and Assimilation
Voice of America English News
This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question about reduced syllables and assimilation.
9 months ago
How pronoun use changes alongside mental and marital heath.
Psychology Today
Research suggests that pronoun use offers a window into emotional and relational states. A study showed a correlation between depression and...
37 months ago
Finding words
Boston University
Imagine one day losing your ability to find the words to describe how you feel or what you just saw or something you read. Or imagine knowing the words you...
63 months ago
Use Possessive Pronouns to Talk about Friends, Family
Voice of America English News
In today's report, we will explore a point of connection between grammar and relationships: possessive pronouns.
24 months ago
What is a word in computing architecture? | Definition from TechTarget
TechTarget
Learn about a word in computing architecture, a unit of data of defined bit length that's addressed and moved between storage and a computer processor.
30 months ago
More than words
The Guardian
The language we use, and even the sound of our own voice reveals much more about us than we may think. Catherine Jones explains.
187 months ago
Breakdown of category-specific word representations in a brain-constrained neurocomputational model of semantic dementia | Scientific Reports
Nature
The neurobiological nature of semantic knowledge, i.e., the encoding and storage of conceptual information in the human brain, remains a...
11 months ago
SF's Thing Quarterly melds function, words, access
SFGATE
It was not just any shower curtain. This was Issue 16 of the Thing Quarterly, a periodical that mails subscribers an everyday object imbued with...
153 months ago
AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
Nature
A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human...
12 months ago
The Mystery of Babies’ First Words
The Atlantic
It's nearly impossible to discern when an infant's babbling turns into a fully formed word.
66 months ago
The neural correlates of agrammatism: Evidence from aphasic and healthy speakers performing an overt picture description task
Frontiers
Functional brain imaging studies have improved our knowledge of the neural localization of language functions and the functional reorganization after a...
8 months ago
Improving Word Clouds as Tool for Text Analytics Data Visualization
predictiveanalyticsworld.com
Rich Lanza will present Using Letter Analytic Techniques to Pinpoint Textual Deviations at the Text Analytics World Conference, taking place...
103 months ago
'Invisible Words' Shape The Hidden Blueprint of All Storytelling, Study Finds
ScienceAlert
For almost as long as stories have been told, stories have been deconstructed. For centuries, theorists, philosophers, and scholars have...
50 months ago
How the Wernicke's Area of the Brain Functions
Verywell Mind
Wernicke's area is a region of the brain important in language comprehension. Damage to this area can lead to Wernicke's aphasia which...
18 months ago
Can Our Brains Really Read Jumbled Words as Long as The First And Last Letters Are Correct?
ScienceAlert
You've probably seen the classic piece of "internet trivia" in the image above before - it's been circulating since at least 2003.
79 months ago
Google Ads: ‘Exact Match’ Keeps Getting Less Exact
Practical Ecommerce
Google recently announced another change in “exact match” keywords to include close variations with the same meaning as the keyword.
70 months ago
How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking
Quick and Dirty Tips
Aphasia is a tragic condition and a type of brain damage that impairs language. This condition can teach us a lot about how language works.
18 months ago
Telling Stories: Analyzing Text to Understand Personality, Social behavior, and Narratives
Microsoft
Pronouns, prepositions, articles, and other short function words have traditionally been relegated to STOP word status in the AI world.
74 months ago
Queering the “I”: On First-Person LGBTQ Narratives
Literary Hub
The “I” is contentious in our very understanding of it. This oddly phallic letter helps us express our desires, wants, requests, emotions.
89 months ago
Google’s exact match close variants expand again: Now include same meaning variations
Search Engine Land
Exclusive: The latest machine learning-powered update to close variants means exact match will match to the intent of the query.
73 months ago
How to Search for Text in Word
How-To Geek
Searching for text in your Microsoft Word document is extremely easy to do, especially with the built-in advanced search options.
56 months ago
How to do a Control-F search on your iPhone to find specific words or phrases
Business Insider
Control-F is a handy computer shortcut for quickly locating specific words or phrases in a text-filled word document or a webpage.
25 months ago
(PDF) Investigating syllabic structures and their variation in spontaneous French
ResearchGate
PDF | The paper presents a study of syllabic structures and their variation in a large corpus of French radio interview speech. A further aim is to show.
106 months ago
Gonzaga senior award research grant to study gender and stories
The Gonzaga Bulletin
Senior Sophia Maggio spent the summer at Gonzaga researching gender and its relationship to everyday words and storytelling.
60 months ago
How can you tell if your partner wants to break up? Listen out for these words in conversations
StudyFinds
Psychologists say that evidence of a relationship nearing its end may exist in the small words used in everyday conversations.
35 months ago
These little words may signal a future breakup
Futurity
Pronouns in Reddit posts before and after breakups suggest these words signal heartbreak before either partner realizes.
45 months ago
When Google Exact Match Isn’t Exact Match… and What It Means in Practice
Search Engine Journal
Google are expanding their machine learning abilities and further diluting the exact match part of exact match keywords in Google AdWords.
91 months ago
The subtle changes in language that could reveal your relationship is about to break up
Yahoo Life UK
Small changes in a person's use of language can reveal their relationship is doomed months before either party even realise.
45 months ago
Seriously, Google, can you just make exact match exact?
Search Engine Land
In case you haven't heard, Google has decided to ignore function words and word order for exact match keywords. If you just want to know how...
91 months ago
Fig. 6: Attribution of Shakespeare plays. We attribute the 28 plays in...
ResearchGate
Download scientific diagram | Attribution of Shakespeare plays. We attribute the 28 plays in Table I and the additional 10 plays in Table VI.
79 months ago
Hillary Clinton talks more “like a man” the more powerful she becomes
LSE Blogs
Many in the media focus less on what Hillary Clinton Says, and more on how she says it. In new research, Jennifer J. Jones looks at how...
98 months ago
Generating Word Embeddings from Text Data using Skip-Gram Algorithm and Deep Learning in Python
Towards Data Science
The biggest challenge in NLP is devising a way to represent a word's meaning. This is a critical component since different individuals...
23 months ago
Why the Gettysburg Address Is Still a Great Case Study in Persuasion
Harvard Business Review
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, a war that began on April 12, 1861. It was just a month after the...
114 months ago
Is this the most powerful word in the English language?
The Business & Financial Times
The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch. 'The'. It's omnipresent; we can't imagine...
52 months ago
Only 10 Words Make Up 25% Of The English Language
Business Insider India
FlickrPhotosynthesised One of every four words you say or write is probably one of these the, be, to, of, and, a, in, that, have,...
132 months ago
Linguistics identifies anonymous users
iTnews
Up to 80 percent of certain anonymous underground forum users can be identified using linguistics, researchers say.
141 months ago
A Simple Sign Your Relationship Will End Soon
PsyBlog
Signs that a couple are going to break up are evident in their use of language months before the event happens, research finds.
22 months ago