Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain - YouTube - 2 views
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Copied from Youtube description: "How did humans acquire language? In this lecture, best-selling author Steven Pinker introduces you to linguistics, the evolution of spoken language, and the debate over the existence of an innate universal grammar. He also explores why language is such a fundamental part of social relationships, human biology, and human evolution. Finally, Pinker touches on the wide variety of applications for linguistics, from improving how we teach reading and writing to how we interpret law, politics, and literature."
How Young Children Learn Language | Scholastic.com - 1 views
Motivation in Sports Psychology - 1 views
The History of American Sign Language - 1 views
American Sign Language - 0 views
Kimmies Harpin' Boontling: A Dying American Dialect? | TIME.com - 0 views
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Thanks to Scott Herzer for this story, about Anderson Valley, an isolated corner of Mendocino County about two hours north of San Francisco, where people speak in a hinterland dialect called Boontling. The dialect is endangered and hopefully won't "pike to the dusties" (go to the graveyard) anytime soon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/auto-correct-this.html?pagewanted=2&_r... - 2 views
How Auto Correct works and how our society may be relying on it too much.
The history of SMS text messaging - 2 views
Speaking in Absolutes - 0 views
FOCROFLOL: Is Texting Damaging Our Language Skills? | Psychology Today - 2 views
Funny Video - 3 views
Dangers of speaking in Absolutes - 2 views
Origin of "the bird" (flipping people off/middle finger/etc) lol - 2 views
cool, weird, interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_%28gesture%29
A Study of the Effects of Texting and Social Networking on Teens - 2 views
Texting may rewire young brains - 3 views
Language and Linguistics Report - 1 views
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/sign.jsp This talks about why Sign Language is important to our society.
Texting ruining our language? - 4 views
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2241980/How-texting-history-ruined-language--plenty-marriages.html And interesting take on why texting may not be such a great idea.