Linguistics

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• Is Multitasking Limited by a Mental Bottleneck?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 152
  Next to the many amazing feats our brain pulls off daily, its inferior ability to juggle a few simple tasks sticks out like a sore thumb. [More]
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• A REALLY Interesting read!!

  
  All About Me And A Bag Of Chips! — Authority: 127
  The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English "Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop tothink about where the words we use have come from? Have you everthought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic,French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just ...
  1 day ago

• A new study sheds light on the origins of language

  
  My Green Meadows — Authority: 440
  Harpo Marx via last.fm A new study sheds light on the origins of language   // According to new research funded by the national Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), your ability to make sense of Groucho ’s words and Harpo ’s pantomines in an old Marx Brothers ...
  2 days ago

• Source for construction industry lingo?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  Can anyone point me to a resource where I can learn construction industry-related lingo? Im a defense attorney and Ive recently been pulled onto a few cases involving accidents on construction sites. There is a lot of terminology tossed around in the documents Im reviewing, and I could use some help making sense of ...
  2 days ago

• The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw

  
  Pick of the Literate — Authority: 464
  The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw Move over Da Vinci Code, another new Vatican centric novel. Mix together a hidden secret, a rogue Cardinal, a world renowned linguist, a TV producer and a Russian cop and you get a mélange of excitement. A simple translation assignment thrusts a college professor into a ...
  2 days ago

• Knowing when to say no

  
  altering labyrinth — Authority: 414
  .. or nein or nee . Dearest daughter mentioned at lunch she would like to learn Dutch beside German and English. I said two languages might be more than enough for now, but she insisted I tell her the Dutch for table ( tafel ), fork ( vork ) and knife ( mes ), making the astute observation it all sounds a bit like ...
  3 days ago

• German word of the day:

  
  altering labyrinth — Authority: 414
  Katzenkindergartenerzieherin n., definition pending, as coined this morning by a Mutterkatze of my acquaintance. I guess you had to be there for this to make any sense. I’m merely curious if this will add any traffic from google searches.
  3 days ago

• Linguist Uses Klingon Knowledge to Mess With His Child

  
  Asylum India — Authority: 142
  Filed under: Weird As we all know, if theres one plus side to having kids, its that you get a tiny little human to completely mess with. 15 years ago, when dArmond Speers had a child, he decided he should grow up in a bilingual home -- his wife would speak ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email this  |  ...
  3 days ago

• Thats what they said

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English is a searchable collection of almost 2 million words of transcribed spoken English from the University of Michigan, including student study groups , office hours , dissertation defenses , and campus tours . Researchers use the Michigan corpus to investigate ...
  3 days ago

• How things have changed…

  
  Language Log — Authority: 652
  In todays Stone Soup, Val tries to catch up: The previous few strips sketch her motivation: But even among young people, texting became popular in the U.S. only a couple of years ago, more than five years after it became widespread in Europe and Japan. See " Whats the difference? " (3/10/2008), ...
  4 days ago

• Georgetown alum attempts to teach son Klingon, working on Klingon-English dictionary

  
  Vox Populi — Authority: 584
  Raising your children bilingual is pretty common, but one Georgetown grad took it to the next level. D’Armond Speers (GRD ’02), who earned a doctorate in computational linguistics at Georgetown and is a big Star Trek fan, decided to raise his newborn son speaking only Klingon, according to TrekToday.com . ...
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• Dell Hymes, 1927-2009

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Dell Hymes, a giant of sociolinguistic theory, has died. "He didnt have much patience for wasting your time in academic endeavors that wouldnt have a direct relevance for the world and for righting some of the inequalities in the world," [Dr. Nancy] Hornberger said. Or as Dr. Hymes himself put it, describing his ...
  4 days ago

• Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 115
  So I was looking on the internet for something else, and as it often happens, I came across something unrelated to what I was looking for but which nonetheless had value for another problem that I pondered on several moons ago, the origin of the intervening PIE sibilant in a sequence of adjacent dental plosives *-TT- ...
  4 days ago

• Readers Respond on "Do Parents Matter?"--And More...

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 152
  Parents and Peers As a psychologist very familiar with the research, I think in “ Do Parents Matter? ” Judith Harris is conflating personality and behavior, which are two different concepts. Personality has more to do with genetic traits related to mood and energy (which plenty of research indicates are strongly ...
  4 days ago

• The implications of excessive praise

  
  Language Log — Authority: 652
  Yesterdays Sally Forth: One of the standard cases of Gricean implicature is the interpretation of irrelevant praise. Thus in "Logic and Conversation", Grices first example of "flouting the first maxim of quantity" is this: A is writing a testimonial about a pupil who is a candidate for a philosophy job, ...
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• War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 152
  When I saw the statement repeated online that theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge would be dead by now if he lived in the U.K. and had to depend on the National Health Service (he, of course, is alive and working in the U.K., where he always has), I reflected on something I had written ...
  5 days ago

• the humanness of language

  
  ninetysix and ten — Authority: 113
  Vern Poythress has a new book out – In the Beginning was the Word: Language – a God-Centred Approach (thanks to Jeremy Walker for flagging it up). It’s available for sale here , accompanied by a publisher’s description which induced some raised eyebrows, I admit, from a linguistic point of view (what can ...
  5 days ago

• The morning coffee and the celebration of goals

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 131
  I do miss hockey. I miss the hits. I miss the goals. And I miss the celebration of the goals. Ever since I first heard of water birth, I thought to myself: “Funny. That doesn’t sound natural.” After all, can you think of an animal that doesn’t live in water, but gives birth in water? I can’t. ...
  5 days ago

• Dell Hymes, 82; linguistics, anthropology scholar

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 968
  Dell Hymes, an influential scholar of linguistics and anthropology who helped pioneer the study of how people use language in their everyday lives, died of kidney failure Nov. 13 at a nursing home in Charlottesville. The retired University of Virginia professor was 82 and had Alzheimers disease.
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• The complete guide to ELT Jargon Part 26

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 124
  Chat bots- Teachers who are reduced to automatic expressions of “interest” by a student who keeps on going on and on Cognitive strategies- Ways of avoiding having to think in class Connectionism- Knowing enough people to get a university job Constructed response- A student answer that has obviously been ...
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