Deaf Kids in Nicaragua Give Birth to New Language
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Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated
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The proportion of primary school pupils with English as a second language has risen by 73% in a decade.
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Aid starts arriving in Nicaragua, where Hurricane Felix killed at least 40 people and left thousands homeless.
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One of the keys to prospering in America used to be learning English. Some say it still is. No one wants to ban people from speaking their native language.
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Jobless people who cannot speak English will have to learn the language or face benefit cuts under new plans.
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A dozen blind students from across the United States are at a summer camp this week working on a project most don't associate with the visually impaired - launching a NASA rocket.    The students are designing and preparing the rocket's payload at the National Federation of the Blind's Jernigan Institute in Baltimore...
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A group of students working for IBM develops technology that automatically converts the spoken word in British Sign Language.
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A campaign to encourage more people to study languages at university is being launched in England.
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Deaf people who use sign language could soon be using video phones to make calls.
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Talking to youngsters in the language of text could prove an invaluable way of increasing their access to services.
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New findings on how people make sounds could lead to better speech recognition and synthesis.
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Children read better when taught with a new system of phonics that builds on their own diction, researchers say.
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According to the Telegraph, the Pirahã &quot;have little social structure, no art, and they barter instead of using currency. Their language is limited to just 10 consonants and vowels.&quot; The only words they have for numbers are &quot;one,&quot; &quot;two&quot; and &quot;many.&quot; ...
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PARENTS, teachers and other adults who feel they can no longer understand what children say should not get in a hookie or become hula-lula about it - youngsters really do speak a different language.
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A new language is being developed by cell phone-addicted teens based on predictive text.
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NEW YORK -- The goals were clear when Sheneen Jackson enrolled her son in one of the first public schools in the nation to focus on Arabic language and culture. First, her 11-year-old would master Arabic. Later, doors would open for him in government and diplomacy -- maybe a job at the United...
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&quot;This is a team that&#39;s not going to stray far from its roots. Hopefully, we would all be bilingual, but practices would be conducted in Spanish.