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Howmanywordsisthis

Howmanywordsisthis

Nancy Huynh March 18, 2012 0

How children learn word boundaries

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The Secret Life of Pronouns

The Secret Life of Pronouns

Bridget Kiely March 18, 2012 1

Psychologist James W. Pennebaker's research reveals that our use of pronouns and other simple, everyday words can reveal not only our genders, but also our emotional states and even aspects of our personalities

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Sitting Down with Noam Chomsky

Mark Schneider March 14, 2012 1

Institute Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a towering figure in the field of linguistics, whose 1957 monograph, Syntactic Structures, has been ranked among the most influential publications in

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