Questions tagged [linguistics]
For questions regarding the study of language, its representation in the mind, its role in psychological development, and its processing by the brain in applied tasks like reading.
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Does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis apply to artificial (specifically programming) languages?
As a computer programmer, I have an intuition that the idea "language influences thought" is very relevant to programmers and programming languages.
Is there any research that examines whether ...
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How long does it take to read a sentence with X number of characters?
How does the time needed to read a sentence scale with the number of characters? Or does this time scaling depend on something more than just character count?
For example, let $X$ be the number of ...
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Technical term for the loss of words in your mother-tongue when speaking a different language
I am basically looking for two words which are, though, related to some degree. It might even be that ultimately the same word is the answer to both parts of this question.
I split them up into two ...
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Technical term for the temporary loss of understanding a word
I am basically looking for two words which are related to some degree. Ultimately the same word might even be the answer to both parts of this question.
I split them up into two questions (see also ...
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Neuronal differences of linguistic statements [closed]
Assuming that the brain (structure) is only constructed using neurons and synapses, then what is the difference between the following linguistic statements from a 'mechanical point of view'?
Bob is a ...
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