Technology and the nature-nurture debate</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Technology and the nature-nurture debate"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Technology,and,the,nature-nurture,debate"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">30-05-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Technology and the nature-nurture debate</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (Education Guardian): Linguistics has long been home to the greatest nature-nurture debate going. What proportion of language is innate and what proportion of it is learned from scratch by every child is a question that remains unresolved, despite 50 years of intense argument. <br>But the subject is far broader than this. New technology is allowing linguisticians to analyse language as never before. Developments in speech synthesis are holding out the prospect that people who have lost their larynx may soon be able to use a computer-generated voice that sounds like the one they had before, while new scanning and imaging techniques are revealing exactly what happens in the brain as we speak <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/postgraduate/story/0,12848,1494115,00.html " target="blank">education.guardian.co.uk/higher/postgraduate/story/0,12848,1494115,00.html </a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show