Lexical Complexity: Theoretical Assessment and Translational Perspectives
- At April 16, 2007
- By gloria
- In Linguistics
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Book announcement!
At last, Plus has published the proceedings of the conference on Lexical complexity and translation held in Pisa in March 2006.
Read More»Cambiano le procedure di valutazione per i ricercatori
- At April 15, 2007
- By gloria
- In Linguistics, Personal
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Come forse รจ noto a molti, il Ministro Mussi ha presentato una proposta di riforma del reclutamento per i ricercatori universitari. Questo crea un gran fermento tra i precari della ricerca. Pubblico qui sotto la lettera di Modica alla rete nazionale ricercatori precari.
Read More»Article on Steven Pinker
- At January 27, 2007
- By gloria
- In Linguistics
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The Toronto Star has just published a very introductory article about Steven Pinker and his ideas about the psychology of language. Pinker delivered a lecture in Toronto on January 24, as part of 15th anniversary celebrations for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
The article is very uncritical and introductory, but it is interesting.
Of thought and metaphor, by Peter Calamai for Toronto Star.
Here are the first few lines.
“Asking Steven Pinker, Harvard researcher and best-selling author, to pass the salt turns out to be very educational. Not about sodium and high blood pressure, but about how we use language and what that reveals about human nature.”
Read More»More on Sketch Engine and corpora
- At January 11, 2007
- By gloria
- In Linguistics
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At last Sketch Engine has included the possibility to create Word Sketches from the Italian webcorpus too!!! This is a great addition for people who work on Italian, given the well-known lack of corpora available out there and how useful word sketches are.
Sketch Engine updates
- At October 09, 2006
- By gloria
- In Linguistics
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Great news from Sketchengine. The Sketch Engine service has been extended and improved , and moved to a new and higher-powered server.
Here are the major changes.
Read More»Media Lab project explores language acquisition
- At May 18, 2006
- By gloria
- In Linguistics
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From the MIT website.
Sarah H. Wright, News Office May 15, 2006
Many people preserve their babies’ priceless first smiles, words or steps on video, but Associate Professor Deb Roy, head of the MIT Media Lab’s Cognitive Machines research group, is taking parental attentiveness to a whole new level.
Roy is recording nearly all of his new son’s waking hours in an ambitious attempt to use these data to unravel the mystery of how humans naturally acquire language within the context of their primary social setting. He will pay particular attention to the role of physical and social context in how his son, 9 months old, learns early words and early grammatical constructions.
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