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Ziad Fazah (1954–), Liberian-born Lebanese language teacher, now living in Brazil. He is famous for claiming to speak more than fifty languages, and for a time was listed in The Guinness Book of Records. It is unclear how many languages he can in fact speak. [218] Andrew Divoff (1955–), Venezuelan actor and producer.
Jean Berko Gleason (born 1931) is an American psycholinguist and professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University [1] who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of language acquisition in children, aphasia, gender differences in language development, and parent–child interactions.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. Main article: Child prodigy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. John von Neumann as a child In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a ...
People who stutter include British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, orator Demosthenes, King George VI, actor James Earl Jones, US President Joe Biden, and country singer Mel Tillis. Churchill, whose stutter was particularly apparent to 1920s writers, [ 5 ] was one of the 30% of people who stutter who have an associated speech disorder—a ...
Roberto Ierusalimschy (born 1960), computer scientist, known for creating the Lua programming language; Madeleine M. Joullié (born March 29, 1927) organic chemist, first woman to join the University of Pennsylvania chemistry faculty as well as the first female organic chemist to be appointed to a tenure track position in a major American ...
Language development and processing begins before birth. Evidence has shown that there is language development occurring antepartum. DeCasper and Spence [44] performed a study in 1986 by having mothers read aloud during the last few weeks of pregnancy. When the infants were born, they were then tested.
Ermal Mandija (born 1987) – Businessman, American attorney, intelligence and information analytics expert. Mary Ball Washington (c. 1707–1709 – August 25, 1789) – Born Marie Balaj, Mary Ball Washington had Kosovar parents who were born in Peja, Kosovo. They immigrated from Junik, Kosovo to the United Kingdom before settling in Virginia.
Eric Adams (born 1960), American politician and New York City mayor. [1] Maggie Aderin-Pocock (born 1968), British space scientist and science educator. [2] Muhammad Ali (1942–2016; age 74), American professional boxer and heavyweight champion of the world. [3] Sam Allardyce (born 1954), English footballer and football manager [4]