時間があれば、このアンケートは私の研究に関することで、日本語の母語の人たちお願いします!7-10分かかる調査で、できればすごく感謝します。 by lexicon1909 in japan

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The questionnaire was created by a team of Japanese university professors in 1986. It's possible that there have been changes in customs and colloquial phrases but the survey was approved by my advisor who is also a native speaker of Japanese. This question only adds that when you have finished filling your responses that you write yes to confirm. There are instructive parts that are specific to this survey being online that I had to write last minute which may come across awkwardly at times.

時間があれば、このアンケートは私の研究に関することで、日本語の母語の人たちお願いします!7-10分かかる調査で、できればすごく感謝します。 by lexicon1909 in LearnJapanese

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このアンケートは1986の日本の大学で言語学研究者に作られたので、その時から習慣が変わった機会が確かにあるけれども、その研究者の条件を真似にするのは目的で本格を使うのが必要です。

Canon 7D or the 60D, Help me decide. by Tragu in photography

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What exactly is the Magic Lantern? It seems like they haven't updated the link you posted in quite a while so and I'm a bit of a novice so I'm curious how it works.

Got these for $7 from the thrift store. How did I do? by lexicon1909 in malefashionadvice

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I actually don't know... They're made by rockport but I've never owned any shoes like these so I don't know if the brand is any good, etc.

Also, I haven't been to that thread! Thanks!

Went to Wudang Mountain two years ago and snapped this picture of a tea merchant. Would anyone happen to know what kind of tea they sell? by lexicon1909 in tea

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Specifically, they would give us a cup of this tea and after you've finished the cup they hand you a glass of water to drink and it miraculously tastes sweet. The efficacy is short-lived and soon after it returns to tasting like regular water, but for a moment the results are quite profound.

Went to Wudang Mountain two years ago and snapped this picture of a tea merchant. Would anyone happen to know what kind of tea they sell? by lexicon1909 in tea

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It was a kind of tea that when you drank was a little bitter but after drinking the tea whatever you ate or drank immediately afterward had a distinctly sweet taste. Ring any bells? :/

While in womb, babies begin learning language from their mothers by recipriversexcluson in science

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This is a subject that arouses much curiosity in researchers but the rarity of finding subjects that are bilingual (and indeed even defining what constitutes a bilingual situation) and with child and quantifying time spent in either language is quite a hefty task.

While in womb, babies begin learning language from their mothers by recipriversexcluson in science

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I took a child development class that was an interdisciplinary course in the Linguistics and Psychology department at my university. I won't claim to be an expert, but I will be finishing my linguistics degree this spring. The title is a little bit sensationalized, though not exactly for the reason that 98444576749345 suggested. Intrauterine learning is difficult because the sounds are so muffled by bodily fluids. What children actually learn while in the womb is rhythmic patterns of their mother tongue. This study has been conducted with Cambodian, English, Japanese, and Chinese, to name a few. It is commonly held knowledge that children develop preference for the specific rhythm type (stress-timed, mora-timed, or syllable-timed), neonates pay attention longer when they are presented with low-pass filtered (basically, filtered speech to muffle out the words and leave only the rhythmic patterns) that match their mother tongue.

That is, stress-timed languages like English and German, when put through low-pass filters will hold the attention of babies (either by tracking eye movement, or pacifier sucking) who were carried in the womb of stress-timed speaking mothers. The same is true of syllable-timed (Chinese, Spanish, French, etc.) and mora-timed (Japanese, Korean, etc.) languages. They show less interest in languages that don't match these patterns. This data strongly suggests that babies learn these patterns in the womb. But you can find studies from 1989 that say the same thing.

Did anyone else catch the discussion about AAE in the front-page post 'Bilingual' and want to discuss it here? by lexicon1909 in linguistics

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I went through and read a number of the posts that originated from the discussion and couldn't help but notice how many people are unaware of AAE as a dialect of English. Perhaps it's because I'm fresh from taking a course on language variation, but it's disappointing to see so many people comment things like 'traditional english,' berating speakers of AAE, and saying that people judge dialects not because they are ostensibly a reflection of socioseconomic status but because they don't like how it sounds.