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Maya:Language
Science & Tech  (tags: Maya World, Language, interesting, society, culture, education, history )

Monica
- 304 days ago - crystalinks.com
Mayan language had many dialects - Qhuche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, and Mam - is still spoken by about 300,000 persons, of whom two-thirds are pure Maya....
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The Intriguing Science of Word Analysis: Counting & Categorization
Science & Tech  (tags: words, language, analysis, meaning, emotions, psychology, writing, research )

RC
- 432 days ago - nytimes.com
Professor James W. Pennebaker, a psychology professor at the University of Texas, says the message is not only in the what ut also the how. Read about how he parses language to identify meaning and emotion.
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Left Hemisphere Specialization for Oro-Facial Movements of Learned Vocal Signals By Captive Chimpanzees
Science & Tech  (tags: chimpanzee, brain, lateralization, speech, language, origin, culture, pan )

Francois
- 541 days ago - plosone.org
The left hemisphere of the human brain is dominant in the production of speech and signed language. Whether similar lateralization of function for communicative signal production is present in other primates remains a topic of considerable debate.
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Surprising Language Abilities In Children With Autism
Science & Tech  (tags: autism, language, study, linguist )

Jan
- 603 days ago - sciencedaily.com
What began as an informal presentation by a clinical linguist to a group of philosophers, has led to some surprising discoveries about the communicative language abilities of people with autism.
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Scientists Identify Language Feature Unique to Human Brain
Science & Tech  (tags: science, technology, research, humans, chimpanzees, brain, language, evolution, Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) )

J.
- 637 days ago - whsc.emory.edu
The study marks the first use of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a non-invasive imaging technique,to compare human brain structures to those of chimpanzees, our closest living relative.
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Human Language Gene Gets Mice Moving
Science & Tech  (tags: mice, language, research, scientists )

Ingrid
- 651 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Scurrying mice would seem to have little to do with human language, but new research has found that a slightly different version of a gene associated with human speech also governs movement in rodents.
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Monkey Vocab Richer Than Thought
Science & Tech  (tags: monkeys, language, discovery )

Ingrid
- 651 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
"Hack hack hack pyow hack hack" might not mean much to human ears, but to a putty-nosed monkey it means, "I'm adult male X; I have just seen an eagle; I will now move away,"
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Sun's Atmosphere Sings
Science & Tech  (tags: Sun, Music, Universal, language, Space, study, science, scientists, research, interesting )

Mari
- 768 days ago - livescience.com
Astronomers have recorded heavenly music bellowed out by the Sun's atmosphere. While humans can make out sounds between 20 and 20,000 hertz, the solar sound waves are on the order of milli-hertz--a thousandth of a hertz.
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Music and Language Are Processed By the Same Brain Systems: Study
Science & Tech  (tags: brain, music, language, humans, science )

Eduardo
- 814 days ago - news.webindia123.com
Two aspects of music, that is rules and memorized melodies, depend on two different brain systems - brain systems that also underlie rules and memorized information in language.
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