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• IPA Transcription Practice

  
  Uz-Translations - language portal — Authority: 140
  IPA Transcription Practice Format / Quality: PDF Size: 1 MB
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• Naming and Reference - The Link of Word to Object

  
  Uz-Translations - language portal — Authority: 140
  Naming and Reference - The Link of Word to Object Author: R. J. Nelson Publisher: Routledge Publication date: 1992-12-12 ISBN: 0415009391 Number of pages: 312 Format / Quality: PDF Size: 1 MB
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• Rock the mic … or the mike?

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  Q: Is there a technical name for when a word is not pronounced as written because it’s a shortening of another word? For example, “mic” would normally be pronounced MICK but, it’s actually pronounced MIKE since it’s short for “microphone.” A: If there’s a word for this, we don’t know what it is. ...
  4 days ago

• Handbook of Semiotics

  
  Uz-Translations - language portal — Authority: 140
  Handbook of Semiotics Author: Winfried Noth Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication date: 1995-09-28 ISBN: 0253209595 Number of pages: 576 Format / Quality: PDF Size: 5 MB
  5 days ago

• Digital Messing Around

  
  Law & Humanities Blog — Authority: 106
  In his column in the January 23rd New York Times, Stanley Fish suggests that parsing humanities texts using computers may be fun, but it can also lead us to find more than we were looking for.
  1 week ago

• What do you call a monthly anniversary?

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  Q: Is there a word like “anniversary” for a monthly event? Say, the second monthly whatever of the day I was hired. A: There’s no monthly equivalent for the word “anniversary,” at least not one recognized by standard dictionaries. But for at least 200 years, people have been suggesting “mensiversary” to ...
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• Diachronic considerations in biblical lexicography

  
  Undeception — Authority: 89
  While studying NT Greek in undergrad, I became interested in linguistics. I gradually became alarmed as I discovered that key insights into human language made by linguists were hardly ever taken into account among scholars intending to interpret the Bible from the original languages. Greek and Hebrew are treated by ...
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• Women and Language: Is English biased against us?

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 146
  This is an informative post. Being a linguistics students and a wordsmith, I tend to give most of my attention to lexicon; how people talk, the words they choose, their tone, their auxiliary verbs, their Read More......( read more )
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• Random Linguistics Definitions Beginning with the Letter "P"

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 103
  pandialectal A term used primarily in dialectology and sociolinguistics to characterize any linguistic feature, rule, etc., which is applicable to all the dialects of a language. paronymy A term sometimes used in semantic analysis to refer to the relationship between words derived from the same root. It is ...
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• tweet of the day

  
  clusterflock — Authority: 523
  I’d be less likely to think “isn’t it ironic?” than “why the fuck did I buy 10,000 spoons?” — Matthew Baldwin (@matthewbaldwin) January 18, 2012
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• Hana Owen - BAKHTINIAN THOUGHT AND THE DEFENCE OF NARRATIVE: OVERCOMING UNIVERSALISM AND RELATIVISM

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 421
  Very interesting article from Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy , vol. 7, no. 2, 2011. Bakhtins narrative theory is one of the foundational ideas beneath Dialogic Self Theory as developed by Hermans, so it has been of particular interest to me. For some reason, I never really paid ...
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• Linguistics Links Worth a Look

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 103
  Why Study Linguistics? - An informative slideshow produced by the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. 50 Years of Linguistics at MIT - A link to 11 MIT linguistics lectures. Dyslexie, A Typeface Designed To Help Dyslexics Read - A video explanation about how dyslexics read and how this ...
  2 weeks ago

• #CompuPolitics

  
  Language Log — Authority: 615
  A couple of months ago, I pointed out that entertainment industry folks are tracking Justin Biebers popularity using automated sentiment analysis, and I used that as a leaping-off point for some comments about language technology and social media. Here I am again, but suddenly its not just Justins bank account were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Snowmanteaux

  
  Language Log — Authority: 615
  Yesterdays Partially Clips : Anticipatory plagiarism by Rob Cottingham at Noise to Signal, covered in " The half-life of the hashtag ", 3/1/2010: Robert Merton: "Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born". [These may not ...
  2 weeks ago

• Elle Muliarchyk x Motilo: Lips of Babel

  
  rush blog — Authority: 85
  Nothing sells like words, and few things are more appealing than gorgeous women. When New Yorker Elle Muliarchyk decided to put the two together in collaboration with online shopping community, Motilo, the cheekily creative Lips of Babel emerged. Elle who was born to both a diplomat and journalist, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Forgetting Actually Strengthens Memory--A Special Report (preview)

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 135
  Most people picture human memory as something resembling a secure metal vault into which we cram our valuable--and not so valuable--thoughts for safekeeping. The people with the biggest vaults, then, can keep the most stuff. They know the most and make the fewest mistakes. [More]
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• A fish story

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  Q: I always thought that “fishes” was not a word. But a couple of weeks ago I read that either “fish” or “fishes” can be used in the plural form. Is this correct and which do you prefer? A: That’s true. Both “fish” and “fishes” are legitimate plurals, according to The American Heritage ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hear Pat live today on WNYC

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  She’ll be on the Leonard Lopate Show around 1:20 PM Eastern time to discuss the English language and take questions from callers. If you miss the program, you can listen to it on Pat’s WNYC page. Check out our books about the English language
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• Spanish Spelling in Red

  
  http://epiac1216.wordpress.com — Authority: 110
  The Spanish language is a very phonetic language.  The pronunciation of the vowels is always the same.  You no longer have to worry about long a’s or short e’s and a whole bunch of other vowel’s pronunciation.  In addition, the pronunciation of Spanish words is further aided through the use of ...
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• Studies in Germanic, Indo-European and Indo-Uralic.

  
  Uz-Translations - language portal — Authority: 140
  Studies in Germanic, Indo-European and Indo-Uralic. Author: Frederik Kortlandt Hardcover: 548 pages Publisher: Rodopi Date: December 17, 2010 Language: English ISBN-10: 9042031352 ISBN-13: 978-9042031357 File: 20mb pdf scanned
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