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Are we naturally drawn to music, as well as language? Chomsky’s theories that humans seem to be innately attracted to language sounds are well known. Research has concluded that when babies listen to speech, they track word patterns and gather information, but besides being attracted to language sounds, humans...
Is this generation going to be helped or hurt by being constantly online? A new survey released today, Millennials will Benefit and Suffer due to their Hyperconnected Lives, investigates the detriment and benefits of the amount of time millennials – young people – spend online. This survey was conducted by Janna Quitney...
Can you learn to speak ‘Hip Hop’ by listening to popular music? Results from recent research, published in December, 2011 by Paula Chelsey of the University of Alberta, support the hypothesis that non-African-American young adults learn African-American English (AAE) vocabulary through listening to hip-hop. How surprising are these results?...
Do babies understand what we’re saying? Research says yes! Noam Chomsky’s thoughts on the growth and maturity of a child’s grammatical capacities have inspired many psycholinguists to study children’s language development. New research published in December 2011 by Jill Lany from The University of Notre Dame adds another level...
Gallaudet University, in Washington, D.C., is one brain-study closer to answering the much researched question: How do we acquire language? Gallaudet University has opened a new ‘Brain and Language Laboratory’ (BL2) designed to investigate how we acquire and convey language, through researching the biological and environmental factors involved in...
Janelle Vaesa received her Master of Science degree in Public Health, with a concentration in Health Behavior, from the University of Louisville in 2008, and her Bachelor of Science in Health and Human Performance, also from the University of Louisville, in 2006. Janelle has eight years of experience in a variety of public health settings, but her expertise [...]
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