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Music a motivator to learn Gaelic
by Tom Ayers
September 6, 2017

Researchers at Cape Breton University have published a new study using artificial intelligence that shows music is a motivator for people to learn the Gaelic language, and the authors say the results may help preserve Gaelic and other minority languages.

…The study involved interviews with 10 Cape Breton musicians who also speak Gaelic. The answers were transcribed for input into a computer program called Leximancer, which takes in huge amounts of data — in the form of words, or transcripts of discussions — and compares them with an internal thesaurus to look for connections between words and ideas.

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