languagescience
If there's one thing Brits are good at, it's getting totally trolleyed - and expressing it in endlessly creative ways. Once the subject of a Michael McIntyre stand-up routine, in which the comedian argued that posh people can use any word to mean drunk in English, two German linguists took it upon themselves to research its truth. “We were curious to find out if the synonyms of “drunk” are used in similar contexts,” explained the study's co-author Professor Dr. Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer of Chemnitz University in a press release. The findings, published in the Yearbook of the German Cogniti...
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What happens when you train an artificial intelligence (AI) system at the same pace as a baby? A team of researchers from New York University (NYU) equipped a baby with a head-mounted camera and recorded videos from when the child was six months old through their second birthday. They managed to record around one per cent of the child’s waking hours, which they used to train an AI system or neural network - a computational model able to learn patterns from input data. They published their findings in the journal Science. Despite this relatively low amount of data compared to the usual massive ...
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What is the accent you’re most attracted to? A gorgeous Irish lilt? A rakish Spanish inflexion? The King’s English, perhaps? Well, according to language learning platform Babbel, it’s official: French is no longer the world's sexiest accent. That bold statement will come as a disappointment to many, especially since Babbel previously polled more than 15,000 people in 2017, a group who named French the “sexiest accent”. So, who has dethroned la belle langue française? Well, 6,000 people from the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Germany, as well as the US, were asked to rate which languages are perc...
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