PROPERTIUS 2.31: WHAT THE POET SAYS HE SAW

Say what Simon says

We are developing a new device which is aimed at supporting non-speaking individuals in literacy learning. The PhonicStick provides direct access to spoken phonics a set of phonemes used in the literacy learning program Jolly Phonics which can then be blended into words. In an initial study, children were able to generate novel words using the first level subset of six phonics. However, the ful...

What the Council says about THE CHURCH

What is corpus linguistics ? What the data says

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He Says Potato, She Says Potahto: Young Infants Track Talker-Specific Accents

One of the most fundamental aspects of learning a language is determining the mappings between words and referents. An often-overlooked complication is that infants interact with multiple individuals who may not produce words in the same way. In the present study, we explored whether 10to 12-month-olds can use talker-specific knowledge to infer the intended referents of novel labels. During exp...

What Guidelines? Never Saw Them!

Richard Hockey Because of the nature of the analysis used in this study [1], no conclusion is possible. There are plenty of examples in the literature demonstrating the “ecological fallacy”. Studies such as this have very little utility other than to generate hypotheses. I tend to think that this association is a marker for greater recognition and treatment for depression. However, it’s a brave...