Video Game Speeds Language Training



Each alien emits sounds from a specific auditory category. Credit: Lori Holt, Carnegie Mellon University

Computer scientists developed a way to decipher ancient scripts that does not depend on parallel texts (such as the Rosetta Stone’s Greek inscriptions and Egyptian hieroglyphs). Here is a tablet in the ancient Semitic language of Ugaritic, w/a translation to Hebrew. Learn more at NSF’s website devoted to science outcomes: See Innovation

Image credit: Benjamin Snyder, University of Wisconsin