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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Lynn Takeshita

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Technology Helps Languages Endure - 2 views

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    Positive effect of technology on language
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The Pleasures of the Text - New York Times - 6 views

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    An old article (2006), but explains how texting spread and which languages are more suited to texting than others
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Teens text for study and don't hold back the profanity, sex, drugs - 17 views

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    Marion Underwood is drowning in teenage texting data. For the last four years, the University of Texas at Dallas professor has been collecting texts sent by and to 175 adolescent students at a large suburban Texas high school as part of a study dubbed the BlackBerry Project.
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Confessions of a serial exclamation pointer - 0 views

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    A lady contemplates the exponential usage of exclamation points in writing and the effects of such over usage (happy a lot, but over nothing)
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Texting Affects ability to Interpret Words - 2 views

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    Study that found those who texted more were less accepting of new words
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Deaf sign language users pick up faster on body language - 2 views

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    This study of sign language shows that communication can be modified and is not only limited to verbal communication
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The Bilingual Advantage - 13 views

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    An interview with Ellen Bialystok, a cognitive neuroscientist, about the advantages of being bilingual.
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Is Language a Technology? - 5 views

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    How language may actually be a form of technology
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What Doctors Are Telling Us Even When They're Not Talking - 5 views

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    This article discusses the importance of body language, especially between patients and doctors.
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Learn a Language, Get a Raise - ABC News - 6 views

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    An interesting article about whether or not there is a correlation between learning a second language and the income made after college.
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A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks - NYTimes.com - 5 views

  • creation of a mouse with a human gene for languag
  • genetically engineered a strain of mice whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for the human version
  • humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences
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  • gene does seem to have a great effect on pathways of neural development in mice
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    The importance of FOXP2, and how it affects language.
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