Degrading words, deplored by most white abolitionists, like "Sambo" and "Cuffee," found their way into Lincoln's descriptions of blacks; he even used "nigger" several times in speeches.
These findings confirm that the ATL atrophy in SD disrupts phonological processing for semantically degraded words but leaves the phonological architecture intact.
As researchers in the Harvard study put it, "it is imperative that parents and sex educators proactively address healthy relationships with young people and that parents and other adults intervene when they witness degrading words or behavior.
Pruning of connections initially improved detection rates of phonetically degraded words.
It is about taking the power from a disgusting and degrading word and turning it back around on the accuser.
There is also evidence that patients with Broca's aphasia are impaired in recognition of auditory words that are degraded, although their performance is at ceiling in recognition of non-degraded words (Moineau, Dronkers, & Bates, 2005).
Assuming the government succeeds in its stated intention of "deterring and degrading" — Kerry's words — Bashar al-Assad's ability to use chemical weapons, which presumably means blowing to smithereens much of his Air Force, missile systems, and command-and-control facilities, what happens next?
I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit.
Probably forever (let's not forget Socrates' concerns that written words would degrade our ability to remember and intelligently interrogate knowledge).
> Since this task addresses the classification of sentences which are usually much shorter than paragraphs or the whole articles, the bag-of-words features from a local sentence tend to have high risk of data sparseness (18), which could result in a biased representation for low-frequency words and degrade the classification performance.
