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• Thats what they said

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 753
  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 ...
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• How things have changed…

  
  Language Log — Authority: 650
  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), ...
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• Georgetown alum attempts to teach son Klingon, working on Klingon-English dictionary

  
  Vox Populi — Authority: 585
  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: 753
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• The implications of excessive praise

  
  Language Log — Authority: 650
  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 ...
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• The morning coffee and the celebration of goals

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 130
  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. ...
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• Dell Hymes, 82; linguistics, anthropology scholar

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 970
  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: 125
  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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• Twitters New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In

  
  Gawker: valleywag — Authority: 657
  Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "Whats happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. In short, Twitters new slogan reflects the microblogging services evolution from ...
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• Twitters New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In [Valleyspeak]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 867
  Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "Whats happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does:...
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• Quote out of context

  
  clusterflock — Authority: 618
  I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language.
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  The Valve — Authority: 543
  
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• Just one word after another…

  
  Language Log — Authority: 650
  Yesterdays Get Fuzzy: And todays: Personally, I find that I get better results with a contingency table. A nice solid oak one, for example.
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• The irony of saying there is no God

  
  trangre — Authority: 410
  I was watching a Horizon programme which Im told will be interesting on linguistics, which I find fascinating. But Ive just stalled on the opening premise, which is the complete mystery of how humans uniquely have the innate ability to speak! "How did this ability evolve? Why is it uniquely human?" "When you start ...
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• Letter: Stanley Ellis obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Brian MacDonald writes: I had the privilege of using Stanley Ellis (obituary, 14 November) a number of times as an expert witness when I was an investigator for HM Customs. I first met him in 1989, when I gave him a short lift to Isleworth crown court. We spoke only briefly during the car journey, and as he got out ...
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• U.S. and Beijing Disagree on Obama’s Chinese Name: Global Geographic Times, China

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 736
  According to this blog entry from the Web site of China’s Global Geographic Times , a U.S. Embassy request that China use a new spelling of Obama’s Chinese name has been met with suspicion among that nation’s ‘Netizens.’ So what’s in a name, one might ask? For the Global Geographic Times , Scholar ...
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• Foreign Afflictions: Mental Disorders Across Country Borders

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 152
  Let us start with a little quiz. How many of these conditions have you heard of? Taijin kyofusho , hikikomori , hwa-byung , or qi-gong psychotic reaction. [More]
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• Linear A treatment of consonant clusters

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 116
  I just discovered Minoan language blog by Andras Zeke, and in particular an intelligent post called Treatment of consonantal clusters in Linear A and B. Here, Zeke goes into excellent detail about his observations of Linear Bs handling of consonant clusters and what impact that may have on rules implicit in Linear A. ...
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