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World Wide Web Consortium Publishes First Public Working Draft of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2
W3C Produces Open Web Services Vocabulary with Improved XML Interoperability The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2 and WSDL 1.2 Bindings as W3C Public Working Drafts. WSDL 1.2 is an XML-based language that describes a Web Service - the data exchanged, the protocol to use, and its location on... view more... (2002-07-09)
Tickling Children's Funny Bones - UU Study
Children say the funniest things, but what makes them laugh? Do German and Israeli kids share the same sense of humour - or is the Simpsons the universal language of laughter? view more (2005-04-18)
Preschool children display innate skill with numbers, addition
Psychologists at Harvard University have found that five-year-olds are able to grasp numeric abstractions and arithmetic concepts even without the formal education or language to express this knowledge in words. view more (2005-09-20)
Invitation to the Press - Cockney Cadence And The Rhythm Of Everyday Speech Inspires Audio Artist
FINE art student Jane Goetzee's audio artwork is inspired by the natural lilt of everyday speech - including the dialogue of the characters in the TV soap EastEnders. Former radiographer Jane, a final year student with Staffordshire University, is interested in the role of art and language, in particular the cadence of language such as the Cockney... view more... (2002-06-11)
Not every stutterer is a problem case
If a child often stops in the middle of a sentence and repeats individual sounds or syllables, this does not inevitably mean that the child is a stutterer. view more (2006-02-16)
Possible to detect causes of autism in over a third of cases
It may be possible to find the causes for autism in over a third of cases, suggests research in the Journal of Medical Genetics. And these are likely to include a range of factors. view more (2002-03-11)
Recently Resettled Refugees Show Hormonal Reactions Accompanying Life Events Related To Integration
Two Swedish investigators have explored which events or living conditions in daily life were of importance for the well-being of refugees during the first nine months after resettlement, in order to improve the understanding of which factors are of importance for the development of health and for successful integration of refugees. Life events... view more... (2003-01-13)
Eavesdropping comes naturally to young song sparrows
Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their neighbors. view more (2007-05-31)
Our Metallic Reflection: Considering Future Human-Android Interactions
Everyday human interaction is not what you would call perfect, so what if there was a third party added to the mix - like a metallic version of us? view more (2009-07-17)
Pioneering Video Link Signals Way For Future Communications Between Deaf Community And Health Providers
The Leicester Centre for Deaf People, supported by funding from Leicestershire Health Authority, has launched a groundbreaking video communications initiative to provide a round-the-clock remote sign language interpretation service which will drastically improve communication between healthcare providers and the deaf community. Part of the... view more... (2002-01-16)
Looking at language
The study of the neural basis of language has largely focused on regions in the cortex - the outer brain layers thought by many researchers to have expanded during human evolution. view more (2009-08-05)
Classifying 'clicks'
A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years--how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African languages. view more (2009-07-16)
Shared ancestor to humans, present-day non-human primates may be linchpin in evolution of language
When contemplating the coos and screams of a fellow member of its species, the rhesus monkey, or macaque, makes use of brain regions that correspond to the two principal language centers in the human brain. view more (2006-07-24)
Different styles of mother-infant interaction affect different aspects of infant cognition
Although the quality of mother-child interaction and its effect on general IQ and later schooling is a widely researched topic, it has never been studied using the same infants over a period of time across several cognitive domains. However, this is the focus of new psychological research, which will be presented at the British Psychological... view more... (2005-03-21)
Un-total Recall: Amnesics Remember Grammar, but Not Meaning of New Sentences
Syntactic persistence is the tendency for speakers to produce sentences using similar grammatical patterns and rules of language as those they have used before. view more (2008-09-24)
Learning a second language -- Is it all in your head?
Think you haven't got the aptitude to learn a foreign language? New research led by Northwestern University neuroscientists suggests that the problem, quite literally, could be in your head. view more (2007-07-26)
Indigenous children don't need number words to 'count', says new study
The study, by researchers from the University of Melbourne and University College London, is set to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. view more (2008-08-19)
The roots of grammar: New study shows children innately prepared to learn language
To learn a language, a child must learn a set of all-purpose rules, such as "a sentence can be formed by combining a subject, a verb and an object" that can be used in an infinite number of ways. view more (2007-06-06)
Bird brains suggest how vocal learning evolved
Though they perch far apart on the avian family tree, birds with the ability to learn songs use similar brain structures to sing their tunes. Neurobiologists at Duke University Medical Center now have an explanation for this puzzling likeness. view more (2008-03-12)
The pen may be mightier than the keyboard
When it comes to writing the pen apparently is mightier than the computer keyboard. Second, fourth and sixth grade children with and without handwriting disabilities were able to write more and faster when using a pen than a keyboard to compose essays, according to new research. view more (2009-09-17)
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