What impact does a person's proficiency in English as a second language have on their health and economic integration when they settle in the U.S.? That's the issue addressed in new research published in the International ...
Education
Oct 22, 2020
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The school year is over and holidays are upon us. But that doesn't mean your children's learning experiences can't continue.
Education
Dec 31, 2019
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Words for emotions like "anger" and "fear" vary in meaning across language families. Researchers have now compared colexifications of emotion words—cases where one word signifies multiple semantically related concepts. ...
Social Sciences
Dec 19, 2019
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It's the 1950s. There's a woman at home in the kitchen. She's busy running the domestic world of her family, whose health and happiness she's responsible for. Sixty years pass and advertising in women's consumer magazines ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2019
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The Sino-Tibetan language family includes early literary languages, such as Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese, and is represented by more than 400 modern languages spoken in China, India, Burma, and Nepal. It is one of the most ...
Social Sciences
May 6, 2019
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A small team of researchers affiliated with several institutions across China has conducted an in-depth study of the Sino-Tibetan language family and has concluded that it likely originated in present-day northern China. ...
The approximately 400 languages of Aboriginal Australia can be grouped into 27 different families. To put that diversity in context, Europe has just four language families, Indo-European, Basque, Finno-Ugric and Semitic, ...
Evolution
Mar 13, 2018
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Scientists have further evidence that an ancient family of languages spread across most of the Australian continent over the last 6000 years, rapidly replacing pre-existing languages.
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2018
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In Stefani Engelstein's new book, "Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity," the author argues that a genealogical way of thinking about global relations emerged in the nineteenth century. This way of thinking ...
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2017
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Cornell researchers are working with Head Start Centers and day schools in New York City on early-intervention work to promote development of spatial skills and language acquisition in preschoolers.
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2017
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