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On its face, talk of grounding human morality in animal behavior is the kind of "lower language" of reductive explanation that might make Charles Taylor shudder.
In Taylor's terms, the question is whether an "upper language," in which we describe altruism as noble and admirable, can be fully captured by a "lower language," of instrumental and biological explanation, a language that scrupulously avoids the vocabulary of purpose, intentionality, design, teleology.
Workers with lower language abilities can proxy workers with poor individual abilities.
Compared to age- and cognitively matched controls, children with CIs had significantly lower language levels with delays disproportionate to their cognitive potential.
The finding that for children with lower language ability, cognitive load did not decrease as they saw more animations provided additional support for this expertise reversal effect.
Suzuki (2009) also found out that L2 learners with higher language proficiency have the tendency to assess themselves lower comparing to L2 learners with lower language proficiency.
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Sweary politicians are hardly a new phenomenon, and the demands of high office may demand heightened, or lowered, language in response.
The degree of genetic overlap was also negative, indicating that genetic influences on autistic traits lowered language scores in the full sample (mean genetic correlation = −0.13).
In another study, which supported the findings by Staples et al. (2013), Serrano et al. (2015) investigated whether intensive exposure is more beneficial for lower proficient language learners, or whether a certain command of the target language is necessary before language learners can benefit from intensive exposure to the language.
In children with below median IQ-score, a larger number of ADHD symptoms were more likely to be accompanied by reports of lower expressive language skills, while the level of ADHD symptoms exerted a smaller effect on reported language skills in children with above median IQ-score.
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