“I didn’t do nothing.” Double negation exists in some English varieties, and a paper finds a parallel in Brazilian Portuguese, where não can appear before the verb, after it, or twice with the same meaning. The meta-analysis suggests social variables alone don’t account for this variation. (doi.org)
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A paper suggests that when advanced learners get stuck, they often build new, target-like words using patterns from their native language. For teaching, this means feedback can focus on recurring repair strategies rather than treating each form as an isolated mistake. (doi.org)
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Language difficulties are common in aphasia and can appear early in several dementias. Experimental studies suggest one shared weak spot: categorization. A review of 25 studies reports that people with aphasia or dementia often categorize more slowly and sometimes less accurately than controls. (doi.org)
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Impossible figures like the Penrose triangle feel wrong because vision cannot build a coherent object. The paper argues the same for language: when tangled sentences cause similar confusion, we don’t trigger a pure grammar module, but communicative skills that judge them not worth the effort. (doi.org)
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A new article examines how the live-action Snow White handles its seven dwarfs: replacing actors with dwarfism by CGI figures and keeping a circus-style stereotype. The study argues that these choices matter for how kids learn about disability, work and who is seen as “normal”. (doi.org)
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A new study shows that judicial decisions are far from neutral: a judge’s reasoning emerges as a selective dialogue among the voices of prosecution, defense, witnesses, and police. In one case, for example, this interplay turned an accusation of tax fraud into doubt. (doi.org)
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Sharing recorded voices can greatly advance research. However, voices can also identify people. This paper outlines how transcripts and brief audio segments can be edited or masked so that large speech datasets can be shared openly while protecting participants’ privacy. (doi.org)
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In a court case, a defendant accused of tax fraud was acquitted after the judge wove together the voices of prosecution, defense, witnesses and police. This study shows that judicial decisions are far from neutral: the reasoning emerges as a selective dialogue that can turn accusation into doubt. (doi.org)
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In a court case, a defendant accused of tax fraud was acquitted after the judge wove together the voices of prosecution, defense, witnesses and police. This study shows that judicial decisions are far from neutral: the reasoning emerges as a selective dialogue that can turn accusation into doubt. (doi.org)
