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History of the English Language in 10 Acts - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...index_embed.shtml English language evolution history
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  • Ryan Catalani on 20 Oct 10
     
    Interactive timeline of the history of English (spread across 10 different "acts") - includes sound clips (including Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales prologue), English language history, etc.
  • Lara Cowell on 08 Mar 12
     
    Adding on to Ryan's commentary: For each era, you can click on the different icons and do the following: 1. Read and hear a famous document 2. Get a brief historical overview 3. Linguistic developments 4. New words entering the language 5. A fast fact 6. A pun or riddle
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James Pennebaker's research papers - 7 views

homepage.psy.utexas.edu/...index.htm
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  • Ryan Catalani on 29 Sep 10
     
    Pennebaker (psychologist, linguist at University of Texas) seems to focus on connections between language and social interactions.
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Linguist Tunes In To Pitch Processing In Brain - 4 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...080216114856.htm pitch language brain
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  • Kathryn Murata on 08 Feb 10
     
    Provides information on pitch in general and its relation to learning language, particularly pinpointing areas of the brain that process and interprets pitch in language.
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the psycholinguistics of metaphor - 5 views

www.colorado.edu/...PSYCHOLING_METAPHOR.pdf metaphor psycholinguistics
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  • Lisa Stewart on 13 Jan 11
     
    scholarly but short
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How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand - 11 views

www.wired.com/...st_essay google_translator globish language_evolution english_language chinglish
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  • An estimated 300 million Chinese — roughly equivalent to the total US population — read and write English but don't get enough quality spoken practice. The likely consequence of all this? In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese.
  • in various parts of the region they tend not to turn vowels in unstressed syllables into neutral vowels. Instead of "har-muh-nee," it's "har-moh-nee." And the sounds that begin words like this and thing are often enunciated as the letters f, v, t, or d. In Singaporean English (known as Singlish), think is pronounced "tink," and theories is "tee-oh-rees."
  • English will become more like Chinese in other ways, too. Some grammatical appendages unique to English (such as adding do or did to questions) will drop away, and our practice of not turning certain nouns into plurals will be ignored. Expect to be asked: "How many informations can your flash drive hold?" In Mandarin, Cantonese, and other tongues, sentences don't require subjects, which leads to phrases like this: "Our goalie not here yet, so give chance, can or not?"
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  • According to linguists, such words may introduce tone into other Asian-English hybrids.
  • Chinglish will be more efficient than our version, doing away with word endings and the articles a, an, and the.
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      Lisa Stewart on 06 Mar 11
       
      This reminds me of the Vikings' effect on Anglo-Saxon.
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Language and Culture:  Learning Language - 2 views

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  • It is impossible to understand the subtle nuances and deep meanings of another culture without knowing its language well.
  • Young children are inherently capable of learning the necessary phonemes, morphemes, and syntax as they mature.  In other words, they have a genetic propensity to learn language. 
  • Studies of average American children show that there is rapid learning of language in the early years of life.
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  • Learning a second or third language is easier in early childhood than later.  It is particularly important to learn correct pronunciation as young as possible. 
  • Learning a second language can be affected by the patterns of the first language.  This is referred to as linguistic interference.
  • Kai Aknin on 03 Mar 11
     
    Description of words, syntax, etc.
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Scientific American: How Language Shapes Thought [PDF] - 5 views

psychology.stanford.edu/...sci-am-2011.pdf linguistics research metaphor language boroditsky
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  • Ryan Catalani on 28 May 11
     
    By Lera Boroditsky (Stanford researcher) "Scholars have long wondered whether different languages might impart different cognitive abilities. In recent years empirical evidence for this causal relation has emerged, indicating that one's mother tongue does indeed mold the way one thinks about many aspects of the world, including space and time. The latest findings also hint that language is part and parcel of many more aspects of thought than scientists had previously realized."
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Conceptual Metaphor Home Page - 2 views

www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/...MetaphorHome.html metaphor conceptual lakoff linguistics research
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  • Ryan Catalani on 28 May 11
     
    By George Lakoff. Includes indexes of conceptual metaphors, e.g., - A force is a moving object- A problem is a body of water- Psychological forces are physical forces- Time is a landscape we move through- Words are weapons Includes examples for each. E.g., for "A problem is a body of water": - He dived right into the problem.- The murky waters of the investigation frustrated him.- He'd been fishing for the answer for weeks.- Finally the answer surfaced.- The answer's just floating around out there.
  • Lisa Stewart on 27 Jun 11
     
    AHH! We needed this. Thanks, Ryan!
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PLoS ONE: Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning - 3 views

www.plosone.org/...10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0016782 metaphor research linguistics boroditsky
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  • Ryan Catalani on 28 May 11
     
    By Paul H. Thibodeau and Lera Boroditsky "In five experiments, we have explored how these metaphors influence the way that we reason about complex issues and forage for further information about them. We find that metaphors can have a powerful influence over how people attempt to solve complex problems and how they gather more information to make "well-informed" decisions.... [D]ifferent metaphorical frames created differences in opinion as big or bigger than those between Democrats and Republicans."
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Louisiana's Tunica Tribe Revives Its Lost Language - 1 views

lancasteronline.com/...revives-its-lost-language.html linguistics language revival
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  • Lara Cowell on 12 Aug 11
     
    Guess language extinction isn't necessarily final? Check out this project to resurrect Tunican...
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Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) - 1 views

corpus.byu.edu/coca corpus
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  • Ryan Catalani on 01 Aug 11
     
    "The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English. It was created at Brigham Young University in 2008, and it is now used by tens of thousands of users every month (linguists, teachers, translators, and other researchers). ... The corpus contains more than 425 million words of text and is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts."
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The Mechanic Muse - The Jargon of the Novel, Computed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...gon-of-the-novel-computed.html research corpus linguistics
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  • Ryan Catalani on 01 Aug 11
     
    "Now in the 21st century, with sophisticated text-crunching tools at our disposal, it is possible to put Bridgman's theory to the test. Has a vernacular style become the standard for the typical fiction writer? Or is literary language still a distinct and peculiar beast?"
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