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·February 24, 2020·3 min read

Why Edgar Allan Poe probably did not kill himself

Computerized language analysis reveals linguistic markers of depression were found in Poe's personal letters and professional writing, but none are consistent with suicidal ideations.

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·February 20, 2020·4 min read

Language disorders as indicators of the diagnosis and progression of Huntington’s disease

Study reports it may be possible to detect the onset and progression of Huntington's disease through linguistic changes in patients. Linguistic impairments often begin before the onset of other Huntington's symptoms.

This shows the word welcome in different languages

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·February 8, 2020·4 min read

Linguistics: The pronunciation paradox

Second language learners can hear pronunciation errors fellow learners make but tend to overestimate the quality of their own pronunciation.

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·February 3, 2020·5 min read

Parentese helps parents, babies make ‘conversation’ and boosts language development

Parents who speak to their infant in parentese, or baby-talk, help increase their child's language acquisition skills.

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·November 4, 2019·5 min read

Anger, anxiety, insomnia: Tweets from Twitter users could predict loneliness

Linguistic analytic models found users who tweet about loneliness post significantly more frequently about mental health concerns, relationship problems, and insomnia.

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·October 10, 2019·2 min read

Linguists track impact of cognitive decline across three decades of one writer’s diaries

Reviewing over thirty years of diaries from a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, linguists discover how writing style changes as dementia progresses.

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·September 13, 2019·3 min read

What multilingual nuns can tell us about dementia

While being multilingual did not delay the onset of dementia for those at risk, nuns who spoke four or more languages were significantly less likely to develop dementia than those who spoke just one language.

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·August 30, 2019·3 min read

Diverse linguistic environment boosts brain sensitivity to new learning

Living in a linguistically diverse environment helps promote more effective learning of new languages for monolingual people.

This shows the lists of positive and negative words for males and females

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·August 27, 2019·3 min read

Women are beautiful, men rational

According to a new machine learning algorithm, men are typically described in terms that refer to their behavior, while women are referred to in terms associated with physical appearance in fiction and non-fiction.

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·July 26, 2019·5 min read

The ‘blowfish effect’: Children learn new words like adults do

Both adults and young children assign a narrower interpretation to a word if it is exemplified by an atypical category member. The study sheds new light on how children learn to see, talk and understand the world around them.

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·July 13, 2019·4 min read

The voice is key to making sense of the words in our brain

The speed of spoken word recognition is affected by how the speaker talks. Study finds sound waves from the voice effectively transmit information beyond the lexical meaning of words.