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Google Ngram Viewer - 4 views

ngrams.googlelabs.com

text_analysis

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Graphically compare the popularity of phrases over time.

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Lisa Stewart on 04 Jan 11

This would be great for someone's field research--thanks, Ryan!

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Lisa Stewart on 05 Mar 11

Google's own book corpus tool

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YouTube - The Seven Words - 6 views

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george_carlin profanity wordsrus

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This is the video of the Dirty words transcript below. It's funnier to watch than to read.

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Words - 7 views

homepage.psy.utexas.edu/...Words.html

psycholinguistics text_analysis

shared by Lisa Stewart on 25 Feb 11 - No Cached

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Lisa Stewart on 25 Feb 11

Good summary of general trends in language use by people with different states of mind, gender, class

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Marie Rewick on 03 Mar 11

This is very useful for the suicide note we tried to figure out in medium

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YouTube - CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS THE 60'S VOL 1 - 28 views

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rhetoric advertisements

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Etymologic: the toughest etymology (word origin) game on the Web - 12 views

www.etymologic.com/index.cgi

etymology word_game wordsrus

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gy game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected etymology (word origin) or word definition puzzles to solve; in each case
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YouTube - Dad and Daughter Baby Talk - 23 views

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ids wordsrus

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Foreign Languages & Literatures - Western Illinois University - 2 views

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Generalized benefits of learning a foreign language.

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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.
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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. 
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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. 
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Learning a second language can be affected by the patterns of the first language.  This is referred to as linguistic interference.
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Kai Aknin on 03 Mar 11

Description of words, syntax, etc.

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Final Report: Intimacy | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH - 31 views

digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/book-intimacy

teens relationships texting

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research-based on digital technologies and teen "courtship" practices

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Taylor Nishimoto on 03 Mar 11

This is really interesting because it fairly accurately depicts teenagers use of technology in relationships. Also it's something a lot of people in Words R Us can relate too...

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YouTube - The Canterbury Tales Prologue in Middle English - 9 views

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middle_english canterbury_tales chaucer

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How to pronounce the prologue

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figures of speech - 15 views

rhetoric.byu.edu/...Figures-Overview.htm

rhetoric

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the best resource

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Memory for Musical Attributes - 33 views

cognet.mit.edu/...chap13.pdf

brain memory pattern music song_lyrics

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includes a section about song lyrics and a good introduction to the cognitive aspects of memory Excerpt: "The experimental data corroborate our intuition that the memory representation for lyrics seems to be tied into the memory representation for melody (Serafine, Crowder, and Repp 1984). Further evidence of this comes from a case report of a musician who suffered a stroke caused by blockage of the right cerebral artery. After the stroke, he was able to recognize songs played on the piano if they were associated with words (even though the words weren't being presented to him), but he was unable to recognize songs that were purely instrumentals (Steinke, Cuddy, and Jacobson 1995)."

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Language Log » Mele Kalikimaka! - 3 views

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll

hawaiian

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Ryan Catalani on 29 Dec 10

""Wait, what?" you may be asking yourself. "Mele" for "merry", OK - obviously /l/ is the closest thing to /r/ in Hawaiian, we're used to that from stereotypes (and even facts) about Japanese and other varieties of "Engrish". But where did that kalikimaka come from?"

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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/booklist.html - 2 views

www-personal.umich.edu/...booklist.html

language general_linguistics

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listserve response to request for linguistics resources

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YouTube - "When Languages Die" author/linguist K. David Harrison - 3 views

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language endangered_languages

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Futurity.org - In other words: Metaphors matter - 8 views

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metaphor

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"We can't talk about any complex situation-like crime-without using metaphors," says Lera Boroditsky, assistant professor of psychology.... In one study, 71 percent of the participants called for more enforcement when they read: "Crime is a beast ravaging the city of Addison." That number dropped to 54 percent among participants who read an alternative framing: "Crime is a virus ravaging the city of Addison."

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