'The First Professional': The Women Writers Suffrage League 1908-1919
How the diversity of human concepts of nature affects conservation of biodiversity
Protecting nature has become a global concern. However, the very idea of nature is problematic. We examined the etymological and semantic diversity of the word used to translate nature in a conservation context in 76 of the primary languages of the world to identify the different relationships between humankind and nature. Surprisingly, the number ...
Longitudinal Associations Between Parental SES and Adolescent Health-Related Quality of Life Using Growth Curve Modeling...
An exploration of amygdala-prefrontal mechanisms in the intergenerational transmission of learned fear.
Humans learn about their environments by observing others, including what to fear and what to trust. Observational fear learning may be especially important early in life when children turn to their parents to gather information about their world. Yet, the vast majority of empirical research on fear learning in youth has thus far focused on firstha...
When simple self-reference is too simple: Managing the categorical relevance of speaker self-presentation
Abstract Membership categories such as ‘doctor’, ‘customer’, and ‘girl’ can form a set of alternative ways of referring to the same person. Moreover, speakers can select from this array of correct alternatives that term best fitted to what is getting done in their talk. In contrast, self-references alone ordinarily do not convey category membership...
Speaking and Hearing With an Accent
Published in Frontiers for Young Minds
When we speak a second language, we tend to do so with an accent. An accent is a change of the sounds of the second language, often the result of the influence of the first language. For example, an English speaker might produce French with English “r” sounds. Accents result from more than just poor muscular coordination. Second-language speakers a...
Humor, creativity and lexical creation
International audience
Revisiting the Sustainable Happiness Model and Pie Chart: Can Happiness Be Successfully Pursued?
News translation as collaboration in multilingual community radio stations in South Africa
status: published
Human cortical encoding of pitch in tonal and non-tonal languages.
Languages can use a common repertoire of vocal sounds to signify distinct meanings. In tonal languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, pitch contours of syllables distinguish one word from another, whereas in non-tonal languages, such as English, pitch is used to convey intonation. The neural computations underlying language specialization in speech per...
