Language Driven By Culture, Not Biology, Study Shows Language in humans has evolved culturally rather than genetically, according to a study by UCL (University College London) and US researchers. By modelling the ways in which genes for language might have evolved alongside language itself, the study showed that genetic adaptation to language would be highly unlikely, as cultural conventions change much more rapidly than genes. Thus, the biological machinery upon which human language is built appears to predate the emergence of language. According to a phenomenon known as the Baldwin effect, characteristics that are learned or developed over a lifespan may become gradually encoded in the genome over many generations, because organisms with a stronger predisposition to acquire a trait have a selective advantage. Over generations, the amount of environmental exposure required to develop the trait decreases, and eventually no environmental exposure may be needed - the trait is genetically encoded.
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LSD: The Dream Emulator - [autofish.net] LSD: The Dream Emulator is a 1998 Japan-only Sony Playstation game, based on someone's ten-year dream journal. In LSD, you wander though a series of odd and occasionally unsettling places. Running into anything changes the scene. A few actions, such as jumping off a cliff, end your session early. As you play through more "nights," things gradually become more strange and visually chaotic. I discovered LSD almost ten years after its release, but it's the sort of thing I'd always wished existed. Some links: Following are some of my screenshots from the game. Inspired by the LSD game, someone made a freeware PC game called SOUP. The following images are from SOUP.
ADVANCED STYLE The Speed of Language Ever wondered why some languages sound like they're spoken much faster than others? Japanese sounds faster than German, Spanish certainly sounds faster than English. Yet, if you watch a dubbed foreign movie, the translated dialogue matches with the original exactly - even seemingly to the actors' mouth movement. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? That's pretty much what three researchers at UNIVERSITE DE LYON were wondering, WHEN THEY SET OUT TO COMPLETE A STUDY ON THE SPEED OF LANGUAGE. So, They gathered up 59 volunteers of 40 MEN 29 WOMEN Each of whom spoke one of 7 languages ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ITALIAN JAPANESE MANDARIN SPANISH And made 585 recordings with an overall duration of: 150 minutes Every volunteer recorded the following phrase in his or her language: "Last night I opened the front door to let the cat out. So WHAT DID THEY FIND? You can compare the speed of the languages: SPANISH 7.82 SYLLABLES/SEC is indeed faster than ENGLISH 6.9 SYLLABLES/SEC
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