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Do animals from geographically distant areas speak the same language?
The Washington Post: A friend recently asked me whether black bears in Appalachia have Southern accents and whether they have trouble understanding black bears raised in Canada or Alaska. Taken literally, those are notions more
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Is cursing really such a big deal any more?
The Globe and Mail: Recently, on the sitcom Modern Family, a subplot concerned little Lily letting loose the mother of swear words to the consternation of one of her dads, and the giggles of the
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Qual o sexo da voz de Deus?
Yahoo! Brasil: Essa pergunta tem sido feita por místicos através das eras, mas no santuário do cinema a voz sonora, de autoridade, que inspira medo e ao mesmo tempo uma presença familiar é, invariavelmente, masculina.
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Between Speech and Song
Take note! Psychological scientists are doing sound research in the quest for the elusive crossroads where words and music meet.
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Speaking and Understanding Speech Share the Same Parts of the Brain
The brain has two big tasks related to speech: making it and understanding it. Psychologists and others who study the brain have debated whether these are really two separate tasks or whether they both use
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Illuminating Speech Impairment in People With Autism
Morton Ann Gernsbacher’s research has for 20 years investigated the processes and mechanisms that underlie language processing. She empirically challenged the view that language processing involves language-specific mechanisms by proposing that, instead, it draws on
