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Newborns cry in different languages
Berlin :: PA :: USA | about 16 hours ago
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In a study of French and German newborns, researchers with the Max Planck Society in Germany found clear differences in the tone and pitch of the babies' cries. The French babies started low in pitch and then went higher, while the German ones did the...
Tags: Berlin, Infancy, Childhood, Benjamin Spock, Phonetics, Child rearing, Crying, Tone, Phonology, Infant, T. Berry Brazelton, Parenting, Intonation, Bringing Up Baby, Linguistics, Babycare
This week's internet previews
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Here, the emphasis is on collections of black and white and early colour photographs, which are accompanied by essays that sidestep the usual Wikipedia cribbed information in favour of personal thoughts. The range of topics stretches from snaps of Bob...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Verse, Poetic form, Spoken word, Linguistics, Entertainment Culture
‘Twitter’ the most-searched term of 2009
Twitter, the top social network, now tops all other in the year searches. Although the year 2009 has not yet ended but Microsoft says ‘Twitter’ was among the top searches of 2009 on its new search engine Bing and a company which monitors...
Tags: bing, GLM, Microsoft, search engine, serach item, social networks, swine flu, top searches, Twitter, allnews, Washingtonville, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, Linguistics, Real-time web, Global Language Monitor, Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, Human communication, Entertainment Culture, Language, tops words, Paul Payack
'Global warming' chosen as word of decade
Toronto :: Canada | 4 days ago
Credibility Global warming" is the word of the decade, according to the Global Language Monitor, as the term weighed heavily over both international political discourse and helped popularize the green movement. The list of the Top 25 words contains a number that...
Tags: global warming, Paul Keen, Canada, Toronto, Bailout, Global Language Monitor, Climate change, Human communication, Language, Linguistics, Slumdog Millionaire
"Twitter" Is The Most Used Word Of 2009!
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Texas-based algorithms company the Global Language Monitor has announced that the social networking site took the top spot for most used word with " Barack Obama " and "H1N1" in second and third respectively. "Stimulus" took number four with "vampire"...
Tags: twitter, social media, used words, San Francisco, Real-time web, Barack Obama, Animal virology, Global Language Monitor, Human communication, Swine influenza, Technology Internet, flu pandemic, Death of Michael Jackson, Influenza pandemics, Influenza, Blog hosting services, Pandemics, Language, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Online social networking, Linguistics, Entertainment Culture
Celeb Couple's Uni-Nicknames
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility It's called a portmanteau , which is the blending of two (or more) words and their meanings into one new word. And for some reason, the media is fascinated with creating these uni-nicknames for celebrity couples. Just for fun, I've come up with some...
Tags: Los Angeles, Heidi Montag, Brangelina, Luggage, Relationship of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Linguistics, Brad Pitt, Spencer Pratt, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Portmanteau
The Dieing of the art of poetry
When was the last time you read the fine mastery of poetry? The complex thoughts of constructive minds portraying endless passion to the page. Pain, joy, enlightenment, there was no better way than to finely etch those heartening words into paper, into...
Tags: Los Angeles, Literature, Poetry, Spoken word, Linguistics, Aesthetics, Genres, Human Interest, allnews, world affairs, love, UK, USA, Europe
Mayor’s forum to be fully interpreted
Madrid :: Spain | 11 days ago
Credibility Updated 11 minutes ago The mayor�s forum scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Albertville Primary School�s cafeteria will be interpreted in its entirety for the Spanish-speaking population. Albertville Mayor Lindsey Lyons said he has arranged for two...
Tags: Lindsey Lyons, Spain, Madrid, Lyons Illinois, Translation, Communication, Hermeneutics, Language interpretation, Interpreters, Internet forum, Linguistics
Lock-step surrender of individual rights
Napa :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility Dear editor, The ongoing organized attempt by the Democratic party of Napa to flood the opinion page of the Register with praise of Rep. Thompson and approval of government-run health care is sad. The wording committee could have demonstrated a little...
Tags: Napa, Logic, Human rights, Syntax, Politics, Outline of self, Redundancy, Self-determination, Linguistics, Semantics
Fallen leaves swirled by wind of imagination | GOOD MORNING COLUMN
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility The products of the two now-leafless ash trees were bagged and deposited at the curb three weeks ago. But the red maple in back still has, oh, 5 percent of its foliage still clinging to the branches. The exact percentage is hard to calculate because two...
Tags: Evansville, Schnauzer, I Will, Linguistics, Onomatopoeia, Style
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