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Size matters in language research
How do you measure your knowledge of a language? Understanding grammar was seen in the past as the vital factor. Now, whether it is your mother tongue or a second language, the words you use are seen as the most important aspect in making a language come alive. But how easy is it to measure the vocabulary an aspiring linguist knows? To answer... view more... (2004-01-27)
Media invitation: Launch of UCL's Centre for Human Communication
A new centre opening on the 4th June will bring together language, communication, psychology and neuroscience experts to foster new areas of research on human communication. Researchers at University College London's new centre will be studying a host of areas including grammar, perception, hearing and the genetics and patterns of language... view more... (2004-05-12)
StudyTakes Serious Look At How Jokes Work
An academic at the University of Edinburgh is attempting to solve the riddle of how jokes work - and to set up a way of analyzing the language used in jokes - as part of wider research into humour. Dr Graeme Ritchie is not investigating how funny particular jokes are, as opinions about that vary widely. Instead, he is looking at whether something... view more... (2002-05-16)
Great Ape Trust graduate student's paper sheds light on bonobo language
What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? view more (2008-08-29)
British women swear back
Women, it is said, shy away from conflict - also in their use of language: unlike men, they try to de-escalate a heated verbal dispute. Rubbish, says Ruth-Maria Roth, a student of English language and literature at the University of Bonn. In a recent study she debunked the popular image of female behaviour, which is also shared by linguists,... view more... (2003-10-23)
Speech melody controls alternation of speakers
Dr Johanneke Caspers, an NWO-funded linguistics researcher, has observed how speakers of Dutch use speech melody to indicate that they wish to continue speaking during a conversation. Melodic cues prove especially important when the sentence structure suggests that they have in fact finished speaking. In a normal conversation between two people,... view more... (2001-10-08)
I'm listening -- conversations with computers
A computer system that can carry on a discussion with a human being by reacting to signals such as tone of voice and facial expression, is being developed by an international team including Queen's University Belfast. view more (2008-04-17)
Academics Seek Bilingual Volunteers For Language Study
Psychologists and linguists at the University of Edinburgh are recruiting Spanish; Japanese and native English-speaking adults for a research project, which will help understand how non-native languages, are learned and stored in the memory. The research aims to identify certain pitfalls in spelling, both in native and non-native speakers, and... view more... (2002-09-03)
A new tribe at the BA festival
A new tribe is emerging from Mexico's scorched earth. A team of geoarchaeologists working on a programme investigating human evolution have found skeletal remains in the desert of the Baja California Peninsula that give rise to new theories on the colonisation of the Americas. view more (2004-09-03)
Philosophers Look To Bentham's Individualism To Promote Philosophy In The UK
The new British Philosophical Association (BPA), set to support learning, teaching and research in Philosophy, is embracing Jeremy Bentham's Individualism to ensure the subject is represented in the UK. Unlike the National Committee for Philosophy that it replaces, membership is open to individual philosophers, as well as Higher Education... view more... (2003-10-22)
Swedish Philosopher Martin-Löf to receive honorary doctorate
On Monday, 9 February 2004, the Swedish philosopher Per Martin-Löf will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Per Martin-Löf is Professor of Logic at the University of Stockholm, and is considered one of the most viable scholars continuing the fundamental work of the Dutch mathematician L.E.J.... view more... (2004-02-06)
Tunes and Talk: Researchers Find Music and Language are Processed by the Same Brain Systems
Researchers have long debated whether or not language and music depend on common processes in the mind. Now, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found evidence that the processing of music and language do indeed depend on some of the same brain systems. view more (2007-09-28)
Training primary teachers to give Spanish lessons
Primary school children in around ten Bristol schools will get a 'flying start' in learning Spanish thanks to an initiative by the University of the West of England. This novel idea recognises that Spanish is actually one of the most widely spoken European languages, with up to one-quarter of the world's population speaking it as their mother... view more... (2002-10-25)
EU-funded project to grow first artificial society
A EUR1.55 million project funded by the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme to grow the first society based on artificial, computer-based beings, much like characters in popular computer games such as SIMS, was officially launched on Wednesday during the AISB2005 convention at the University of Hertfordshire. view more (2005-04-14)
Media Invitation - Mastering the Complexity of Biological Data
Workshop "Ontology for Biology" at Villa Bosch, Heidelberg (November 7-8, 2002) Advances in biotechnology and bioinformatics are generating a huge amount of information that can be used to better understand the secrets of life and the cause of diseases like cancer, AIDS, diabetes, etc. Scientists analyzing this information will have to face... view more... (2002-10-18)
The cradle of golf not in Scotland
Until the beginning of the British Open, everything had been just fine for the unsuspecting Scots who had always considered themselves the inventors of golf. But now Dr Heiner Gillmeister, English language lecturer and sports historian at the University of Bonn, in an article published in the prestigious London The International Journal of the... view more... (2002-07-19)
Age-old magic tricks can provide clues for modern science
Revealing the science behind age-old magic tricks will help us better understand how humans see, think, and act, according to researchers at the University of British Columbia and Durham University in the U.K. view more (2008-07-23)
Language skills develop at 6, say researchers
Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have discovered that children as young as six are as adept at recognising possible verbs and their past tenses as adults. view more (2008-04-29)
Turning information into knowledge: researchers unite to develop new technologies
Some of the UK's leading scientists will be joining forces with major industrial companies in a multi-million pound project to develop computer methods and software for the management and manipulation of knowledge in the information age. view more (2000-03-22)
Running Words Together: The science behind cross-linguistic psychology
While communication may be recognized as a universal phenomenon, differences between languages -- ranging from word-order to semantics -- undoubtedly remain as they help to define culture and develop language. Yet, little is understood about similarities and differences in languages around the world and how they affect communication. view more (2008-03-26)
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