ScienceDaily  — An international research group, including of the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid’s Facultad de Informatica, has concluded that collaboration and interaction are essential elements in the evolution of language. They also have shown that the most effective forms of communication can propagate in a community in a similar… Read More

É absolutamente normal alunos traduzirem diretamente do seu idioma para o inglês. Isso acontece não somente no Brasil, mas em todos os países onde se aprende inglês. No caso de alunos brasileiros, é possível identificar alguns desses “portuguesismos”: Nós estávamos sem carro. O que os estudantes brasileiros costumam dizer: They were without a car. O correto é: They didn´t have a car. Eu estava com frio. O que os estudantes brasileiros costumam dizer: I was with cold. O correto é: I was cold. Eu fiquei esperando por ela durante uma… Read More

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have found that successful long-term learning happens after classroom teaching, after the learners have slept on the new material. Academics from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway taught a group of people new words from a fictional language, which unknown to them, was characterised by a rule… Read More

Cognitive scientists develop a new take on an old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings. Why did language evolve? While the answer might seem obvious — as a way for individuals to exchange information — linguists and other students of communication have debated this question for years. Many prominent linguists,… Read More