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When Family Roles Reverse and Words Fall Short: Taking Care of My Aging Parents Through a Widening Language Gap
nwlc.orgWhen Family Roles Reverse and Words Fall Short: Taking Care of My Aging Parents Through a Widening Language Gap – National Women’s Law CenterThis blog is part of our series for AANHPI Heritage Month. You can check out the next blog in the series here. My husband and I were happily settling into our second year as empty nesters when we joined an altogether different cohort: the sandwich generation. Late last year, after my mom broke her arm […] -
For Centuries, the People of Central Asia Spoke One Language but Wrote in Another: Greek, Aramaic, or Prakrit
www.labrujulaverde.comFor Centuries, the People of Central Asia Spoke One Language but Wrote in Another: Greek, Aramaic, or PrakritImagine if suddenly all documents written in Spanish, English, or French disappeared, and the only things left from our era were a few administrative texts in Latin and Ancient Greek. Something like that happened for centuries in the heart of Central Asia, according to a new study published by the U -
How you map numbers in your mind isn’t universal, even among people who read the same language
theconversation.comHow you map numbers in your mind isn’t universal, even among people who read the same languageOn your mental number line, are the numbers smaller on the left or on the right? Two comparative cognition researchers explain how culture may influence the orientation – but also may not. -
By age 4, one side of the brain is already calling the shots on language
medicalxpress.comBy age 4, one side of the brain is already calling the shots on languageThe brain’s capacity to use and understand language expands rapidly in the first years of life, as babies start to make sense of the words they hear and eventually begin to piece together sentences of their own. The language-processing parts of the brain that make this possible continue to evolve in older children, as they expand their vocabularies and learn to use language more flexibly.
