Even though we attempted to minimize biological jargon on the card stimulus set, there were comments by a subset of non biology majors that some language on a few of the cards was challenging (e.g., bilateral symmetry; stratified epithelium [unpublished data]).
When we baby-talk, we are making ourselves ridiculous; they won't understand the subtlety of language for a few weeks, but I firmly believe that we should talk to them as if they did understand.
It may be that, in the language of politics, a few words are ready to be cycled out.
Developing a higher aptitude for learning, fostering an ability to concentrate, practicing basic speech skills and mastery of language are just a few of the benefits of reading.
As John L. Austin, a philosopher of language, wrote a few decades ago in "How to Do Things With Words", "speech-acts" have "perlocutionary" effects, consequences flowing from utterances that speakers may not have intended.
Robin Dunbar's "Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language," from a few years back, for instance, had a thesis and a sharp one: that primates groom each other not to pick out nits, which do not really trouble them, but as a form of gossip, a way of exchanging social information who grooms who for how long tells who's up and who's down.
Robin Dunbar's "Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language," from a few years back, for instance, had a thesis and a sharp one: that primates groom each other not to pick out nits, which do not really trouble them, but as a form of gossip, a way of exchanging social information — who grooms who for how long tells who's up and who's down.
In 5,000 years of recorded language history, a few dozen languages have achieved the status of lingua franca, a language of wider communication among people whose mother tongues may be quite different.
The title may have been condescending, but the article itself was terrific, perhaps the best yet about Asperger's in a mainstream publication: a 4,500-word 4,500-wordn, in rexplorationinid and sympathetic language, of a woremarkablyew readers had vivided.
The odd thing was, he couldn't speak a word of the language beyond a few where's-the-men's-room survival phrases.
