Entries from Group 4 Language Blog tagged with 'Michele Tanous'
Signing in the Mind
In chapter 14, Fox mentions the question of how signed language is represented in the mind. This brings up a past question of mine that we have yet to discuss, and is of much interest to me. But first, it...
Superior Language Capabilities in Humans
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified a feature in the brain that is unique to human language. I found this article interesting because we all know that language is exclusive to humans, and we...
Language Instincts
Chapter 4 discusses interesting views of modern linguistics and I found myself asking quite a few questions. To begin, on page 55 Fox discusses Chomskyâ??s argument for how speaking children are capable of testing, rejecting and revising their use of...
The Bilingual Brain
I came across an interesting review article titled Dissociating Language and Word Meaning in the Bilingual Brain by Michael W.L. Chee. The study was conducted by Crinion and colleagues, and gives a neuroscience perspective of dissociating brain regions sensitive only...
Linguistic Signs
Michael Agar highlights the way in which Ferdinand de Saussure believed in language as a systematic structure serving as a link between thought and sound. He thought of language sounds as a series of linguistic signs that are purely arbitrary....
Gender Differences in Language?
A recent and interesting article that I came across in Science Daily titled: Boysâ?? and Girlsâ?? Brains are Different: Gender Differences in Language Appear Biological provided evidence for biological differences in language abilities between boysâ?? and girlsâ??. Researchers from Northwestern...
Social Impacts and Bilingualism
A major theme that I noticed in this reading is that other languages are thought to pose a threat to English language. Many opponents of bilingualism seem to interpret it as the major use of a language other than English,...
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