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Words Define Us - Your Words Define You More Than Your Actions - 8 views

www.ideamarketers.com/?Words_Define_Us&articleid=1068180

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  • We think that our actions define us more than our words. But the reality is exactly the opposite
  • "Do what I say and not what I do."
  • child will hold the words against you
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  • what about lying?
  • willingness to lie about an action is something that will be held against you
  • people will judge you more on the words you used, either to cover up an action, to change people's perception of an action, to flat out lie about an action, or to be honest about the action.
  • The very fact that you try to deceive with your mouth tells volumes about you.
  • if your words are true, you ought to let your actions verify them.
  • Our actions serve to verify our words and our words serve to define our actions, and thus ourselves.
Kathryn Murata

YouTube - Monty Python - Argument Clinic - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

youtube argument logical_fallacy

shared by Kathryn Murata on 07 May 10 - Cached
  • Kathryn Murata on 07 May 10
     
    Funny Monty Python video on argument not necessarily pertaining to logical fallacies. However, I challenge others to find at least one logical fallacy in this chaotic argument.
Kathryn Murata

YouTube - Fallacious Commercial? - 4 views

www.youtube.com/watch

commercial youtube fallacy

shared by Kathryn Murata on 06 May 10 - Cached
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  • Kathryn Murata on 06 May 10
     
    From the get-go, this hulu commercial contains interesting logical fallacies that keeps the viewer appealed and interested in what is being advertised.
Kathryn Murata

The International Journal of Language, Society and Culture - 10 views

www.educ.utas.edu.au/...16-4.html

shared by Kathryn Murata on 15 Nov 09 - Cached
  • second language
    • Kathryn Murata
      Kathryn Murata on 18 Mar 10
       
      What second languages are most popular among the Japanese? Does learning certain languages pose more benefits than learning others?
  • apply the principles of first language acquisition to their second language learning experience
  • bilingual upbringing
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  • area of the brain
  • second language development in Japan.
    • Kathryn Murata
      Kathryn Murata on 18 Mar 10
       
      What about learning second languages in other countries?
  • Broca’s area
  • native like quality exposure
  • six year period
  • how much exposure to a second language should a kindergarten-aged child receive in order to develop native like competency or at least reduce such barriers?
    • Kathryn Murata
      Kathryn Murata on 18 Mar 10
       
      Does that mean that we were capable of learning a second language like a native language in kindergarten?
  • English as a second language in Japan
  • motivation to continue studying English throughout the secondary school years will be much higher
    • Kathryn Murata
      Kathryn Murata on 18 Mar 10
       
      Maybe this is true for music, sports, etc. too
  • decline in learning abilities from puberty
  • critical period for second language learners
  • it is possible for adult learners to achieve native like performance
  • alternative to the critical-period hypothesis is that second-language learning becomes compromised with age
  • children growing up without normal linguistic and social interaction
    • Kathryn Murata
      Kathryn Murata on 18 Mar 10
       
      Reminds me of the Forbidden experiment
  • 20 months until age 13
  • inconceivable mental and physical disabilities
  • syntactic skills were extremely deficient
  • Genie used her right hemisphere for both language and non-language functions
  • particularly good at tasks involving the right hemisphere
  • 46 Chinese and Korean natives living in America
  • three and seven years of age on arrival did equally as well as the control group of native English speakers. Those between eight and fifteen did less well
    • Kathryn Murata
      Kathryn Murata on 18 Mar 10
       
      It would be interesting to replicate this experiment here where we have mixed ethnicities.
  • regardless of what language is used elevated activity occurs within the same part of Broca’s area
  • early bilingual subject
  • For monolingual parents living within their own monolingual society it is possible to raise a child bilingually
  • 95% of people the left hemisphere of our brain is the dominant location of language
  • two specific areas that divide language by semantics (word meaning)
  • People with damage to Broca’s area are impaired in the use of grammar with a notable lack of verbs however are still able to understand language
  • actual development of our language centers begins well before birth
  • supports the notion of speaking to your child before birth
  • Japanese babies can detect the difference between the /l/ and /r/ sounds which proves most difficult for their parents
    • Kathryn Murata
      Kathryn Murata on 18 Mar 10
       
      Can Japanese people still pronounce sounds like "L" at any age?
  • survival of the fittest
  • critical period of development is when there is an excess of synapses and the brain plasticity remains at a maximum
    • Kathryn Murata
      Kathryn Murata on 18 Mar 10
       
      Connections between science and language, Darwin's theory of evolution (survival of the fittest)
  • importance of experience during sensitive period of language development
  • age related factors may impair our ability in acquiring a second language
  • child’s parent’s own 2nd language ability
Kathryn Murata

Born With The Perfect Pitch? - 8 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...010222074848.htm

language perfect_pitch

shared by Kathryn Murata on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • If that's all we knew, we couldn't generalize any of the sounds we hear
  • tonotopic maps
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Linguist Tunes In To Pitch Processing In Brain - 4 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...080216114856.htm

pitch language brain

shared by Kathryn Murata on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Kathryn Murata on 08 Feb 10
     
    Provides information on pitch in general and its relation to learning language, particularly pinpointing areas of the brain that process and interprets pitch in language.
Kathryn Murata

Tone language is key to perfect pitch - 2 views

www.eurekalert.org/...uoc--tli051909.php

language perfect_pitch

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  • Kathryn Murata on 08 Feb 10
     
    Examines the languages of Mandarin and Vietnamese and how people who speak these languages are more likely to have perfect pitch. Includes various studies performed and poses an interesting question to think about.
Kathryn Murata

UC Genetics of Absolute Pitch Study - Study - 3 views

perfectpitch.ucsf.edu/study

shared by Kathryn Murata on 03 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Kathryn Murata on 03 Feb 10
     
    A very detailed account of perfect pitch and its relation to learning language. An informative and interesting site!
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