• 南非某大学将祖鲁语设为必修课

    13-05-17 A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year. 南非一所主流大学称,祖鲁语明年将成为所有大一新生的必修课。 Some 80% of people in KwaZulu-Natal speak Zulu The decision...

  • 心得安能提高自闭症患者的语言交际能力

    13-04-16 People with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have trouble communicating and interacting with others because they process language, facial expressions and social cues differently. Previously, researchers found that propranolol(心得安) , a dr...

  • 人类语言进化与鸟鸣声

    13-02-24 The sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy(类似) to language, Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man (1871), while contemplating how humans learned to speak. Language, he speculated, might have had its origins in...

  • 古埃及语专用词典编纂完成

    12-09-19 A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling(记录) the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt -- including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for the government -- has been completed by sch...

  • Facebook中的照片透露着文化差异

    12-06-06 For millions of Facebook users, choosing which photo to use for an online profile is an important decision. Should it be lighthearted or professional, personal or more abstract? According to a study by researchers at the UT Dallas Center for Vital L...

  • Lavender language 同性恋语言

    12-04-24 Lavender language functions as a kind of homosexual code, characterised by acronyms, plays on words and double meanings only intended to be understood by the gay community. Lavender language相当于一种同性恋密码,以使用缩略字、文字游戏以及双关语为特...

  • 语言并非起源于非洲

    12-02-16 In the beginning was the word -- yes, but where exactly? Last year, Quentin Atkinson, a cultural anthropologist at Auckland University in New Zealand, proposed that the cradle of language could be localized in the southwest of Africa. The report, wh...

  • 婴儿出生之时即开始学习语言

    11-12-12 From the moment they're born, babies are highly attuned to communicate and motivated to interact. And they're great listeners. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that during the first year of life, when babies spend so much time li...

  • 2/3英国人不会说任何外语

    11-11-26 Two-thirds of Britons cannot say anything in a foreign language with one fifth even unsure of what bonjour means, a study claims. 一项研究称,三分之二的英国人不会说任何外语,五分之一的英国人甚至连bonjour是什么意思都不清楚。 The findings appear to co...

  • 怀孕早期服用叶酸能降低婴儿语言迟缓风险

    11-10-12 Use of folic acid(叶酸) supplements by women in Norway in the period 4 weeks before to 8 weeks after conception was associated with a reduced risk of the child having severe language delay at age 3 years, according to a study in the October 12 iss...