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sarahtoma23

Few speak Ojibwe as a first language. This 'nest' is teaching kids to in Cloquet - 0 views

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language revitalization

shared by sarahtoma23 on 01 Mar 23 - No Cached
  • sarahtoma23 on 01 Mar 23
     
    This article reminded me of the Ted Talk we watched in class. It's interesting how a "language nest" works and how parents get paid to learn and speak Ojibwe with their children. I'm curious how language revitalization will evolve in the future.
Lisa Stewart

Why We Should Remember Aaron Swartz - Businessweek - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Stewart on 13 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • When he was barely a teenager, Aaron Swartz began playing with XML, an Internet language like Sanskrit or classical Greek–flexible, elegant and capable of great complexity. XML is most often used to move large amounts of information, entire databases, among computers. You open XML by introducing new terms and defining what they’ll do, nesting new definitions inside of the ones you’ve already created. Of this, Swartz created a kind of pidgin, a simple set of definitions called RSS.
  • When he was barely a teenager, Aaron Swartz began playing with XML, an Internet language like Sanskrit or classical Greek–flexible, elegant and capable of great complexity. XML is most often used to move large amounts of information, entire databases, among computers. You open XML by introducing new terms and defining what they’ll do, nesting new definitions inside of the ones you’ve already created. Of this, Swartz created a kind of pidgin, a simple set of definitions called RSS.
  • This is the tension at the heart of the Internet: whether to own or to make. You can own a site or a program–iTunes, Microsoft (MSFT) Word, Facebook (FB), Twitter–but you cannot own a language. Yet the languages, written for beauty and utility, make sites and programs useful and possible. You make the Internet work by making languages universal and free; you make money from the Internet by closing off bits of it and charging to get in. There’s certainly nothing wrong with making money, but without the innovations of complicated, brilliant people like Swartz, no one would be making any money at all.
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  • It is hard to find fault with his logic, and there is much to admire in a man who, rather than become a small god of the valley, was willing to court punishment to prove a point.
Lara Cowell

Can it be? Parrots Name Their Children - 1 views

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names parrots animal_communication parent child horses dolphins

shared by Lara Cowell on 17 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Lara Cowell on 17 Apr 14
     
    Science writer Virginia Morell, in her wonderful new book Animal Wise, describes an experiment involving horses and whinnies - whinnies being very like names. She also cites the research of ornithologist Karl Berg, who states that while most people might think, 'Well, all those [bird] calls are just noise, but I think they're having conversations." Berg has listened to so many parrots in so many nests for so long, he has been able to identify that weeks after birth, these little birds begin to use very specific peeps to identify themselves to others. Not only that, they learn the peeping "names" of their parents, brothers, sisters, and use them in conversation, as in, "Peep-duh-dee-Peep, is that you?" Apparently, dolphins also use particular clicks and whistles to designate particular individuals.
yaelvandelden20

Typically human: Babies recognize nested structures similar to our grammar: At a mere 5... - 1 views

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language

shared by yaelvandelden20 on 29 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • yaelvandelden20 on 29 Nov 18
     
    This article is about how grammar is only possible for humans. I thought this was really interesting because I am interested about how even though we are animals our brains are way more complex than other animals. This article highlighted how as five months old babies were able to recognize embedding in innovative tone sequences created for the study that was conducted to see if they could recognize and process complex grammar structures. These results mark the earliest evidence to date of this basic ability in humans.
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