From perceptual designs to linguistic typology and automatic language identification : overview and perspectives

Language Review/A New Approach to the Systematic Typology of Languages: Introduction and Review of Fundamentals of Linguistic Typology, Rafe’eh Khoshkhoo

It Still Isn't Over: Event Boundaries in Language and Perception

The interaction between language and perception networks in the brain can hold the key to the biological bases of language evolution. In language, every sentence is built around a verb, which describes an event. During perception, humans constantly and automatically segment reality into individualized event (verb) units. The cognitive connection between the perceptual segmentation of events and...

Constitutive Features of the Russian Political Discourse in Ecolinguistic Aspect

The article offers a comparative description of typological mechanisms used in political communicative practice and methods of verbal explication of its axiological and symbolic constituents determining universal mental features of individual/collective consciousness. The research position based on a systemic multilevel analysis of the component structure of discourse facilitates the identifica...

Language, Music, and Brain

Introduction: Over the last centuries, scientists have been trying to figure out how the brain is learning the language. By 1980, the study of brain-language relationships was based on the study of human brain damage. But since 1980, neuroscience methods have greatly improved. There is controversy about where music, composition, or the perception of language and music are in the brain, or wheth...

Speech Workshop: New Perspectives on Developmental Models

In this model, speech perception by adults is characterized as an active, information-seeking process whereby native listeners detect the most reliable acoustic parameters that specify phonetic segments and sequences, using highly over-learned, automatic selective perception routines. In laboratory perceptual tasks, differentiation of native L1 phonetic contrasts is rapid and robust in suboptim...