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Words needed to think about numbers? Study suggests so!
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Massachusetts [US], February 10 (ANI): While one does need numbers to function every day, do we need words to think about numbers? A new study from MIT and the University of California at Berkeley discovered a strange relationship between numbers and words.
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Study explores why understanding of texts worsens with age
Updated : 5 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], November 29 (ANI): Psycholinguists from the Centre for Language and Brain, HSE University, have found that to predict semantic relations between words when reading, older adults use their knowledge of the world instead of grammar more often than young adults.
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Study explores how children learn languages faster
Updated : 10 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania], July 2 (ANI): Children at a younger age learn languages at a much faster pace than teens or older people. The explanation for this learning advantage doesn't come from the differences between children and adults, but rather from the differences in the way that peop
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Virtual program might help kids get ready for kindergarten
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Washington [US], March 18 (ANI): With pandemic lockdowns still in place last summer, The Ohio State University couldn't host its in-person Summer Success Program to help preschoolers from low-income families prepare for kindergarten.
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Diet, dentition and linguistics linked together by researchers
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 17 (ANI): Speech patterns of Anthropologists used a novel data analysis of thousands of languages, in addition to studying a unique subset of celebrities, to reveal how a soft food diet contrasted with the diet of hunter-gatherers is restructuring dentition and chang
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Researchers link diet, dentition, and linguistics
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): A new study has scrutinized the speech patterns of Freddie Mercury, Michael Phelps, and other celebrities to offer insights on how diet ultimately reshapes language.
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