Archaeologists discovered a 3,500 year-old Bronze Age language lost to time
The Boğazköy-Hattusha archeological site, known for its vast cache of cuneiform tablets, serves as an intricate tapestry of rich history.
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JJ Shavit
- Feb 3
The real bias in news coverage is not what you might think, study finds
Networks showed increases in words associated with communion and sharing; but language associated with positive emotion dropped dramatically
JJ Shavit
- Jan 4
Can natural language processing understand Klingon?
Instead of direct references, “Star Trek’s” Tamarians speak in metaphorical references grounded in stories that have learned associations.
JJ Shavit
- Dec 28, 2022
Cambridge student solves grammar’s greatest puzzle after 2,500 years
A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student.
Joshua Shavit
- May 1, 2022
What are the most common children’s first words, according to largest ever global study
Children learn demonstratives that call others’ attention to objects – such as ‘this/that’ and ‘here/there’ – at extremely young ages.
JJ Shavit
- Mar 13, 2022
AI innovation fills in the missing gaps in ancient texts
A team of AI researchers has developed an AI application to help historians fill in the gaps of text missing from stone and metal artifacts
JJ Shavit
- Jan 8, 2022
Dogs can distinguish between languages
Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain imaging study finds
JJ Shavit
- Dec 29, 2021
The relationship between music processing and language skills in the brain
Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation.
JJ Shavit
- Dec 18, 2021
1,500 endangered languages at high risk of being lost this century
A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.
JJ Shavit
- Oct 15, 2021
You Can Now Take Free Online Classes in 12 Rare Jewish Languages
You can now take free online classes in 12 rare Jewish languages like Judeo-Greek and Karaim. They aim to keep Jewish heritages alive.
Joshua Shavit
- Oct 4, 2021
How do you map the infinitude of colors to a discrete number of words?
No language has words for all the blues of a wind-churned sea or the greens and golds of a wildflower meadow in late summer.
Joshua Shavit
- Sep 29, 2021
When it comes to communication skills — maybe we’re born with it?
Are a child’s long-term language skills shaped by how their brain develops during infancy, and how much is influenced by their environment
JJ Shavit
- Aug 22, 2021
Remarkable new findings on how the human brain processes sounds and words
The findings suggest that auditory and speech processing occur in parallel , contradicting a long-held theory that the brain processed...
Joshua Shavit
- Aug 6, 2021
Learning music can boost language and speech skills
Research has shown that a music-related hobby boosts language skills and affects the processing of speech in the brain.
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