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Speech and Music Perception - 6 views

psy2.ucsd.edu/138.5.pdf language_evolution speech music
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  • Lisa Stewart on 11 Mar 11
     
    This is a powerpoint by a UCSD professor clearly comparing music and speech both in terms of syntax and tones. Most of it is pretty technical, but it's interesting.
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phonoloblog - Whistled languages: phonology and Unesco - 2 views

quote.ucsd.edu/...languages-phonology-and-unesco whistled_language phonetics Silbo_Gomero
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  • In some sense, whistled languages use the phonology of a spoken language, such as Spanish in the case of the most well-known instance of this type of language, Silbo Gomero from one of the Canary Islands, La Gomera. Yet they implement this phonology in a radically different way — by whistling rather than moving organs in the vocal tract.
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Effective Communications - 0 views

www.mysdcc.sdccd.edu/...ctive_Communications_Page2.htm Inflection
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  • Jade Hinsdale on 10 Mar 11
     
    Voice inflections in different language - how people interpret them. Videos with only sound.
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The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Volume II: Philadelphia, 1726 - 1757 -- Pennsylvania... - 1 views

www.historycarper.com/...pg36-37.htm slang early_American
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  • Lisa Stewart on 09 Mar 11
     
    Published by Benjamin Franklin in his newspaper, this list of more than 200 slang terms for drunkenness was probably not compiled by Ben Franklin, as is widely reported on the internet.
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North Korea's Digital Underground - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...8414 word_acts citizen_journalism social_media
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  • these new media organizations are helping to create something remarkable: a corps of North Korean citizen-journalists practicing real journalism inside the country.
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YouTube - Baby Babbling - 4 views

www.youtube.com/watch babble baby_talk ids
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  • Lisa Stewart on 08 Mar 11
     
    variations on the theme of "ba" (Mother suggests "binky?")
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Photographic Psychology: Image and Psyche - 0 views

users.rider.edu/...microexpression.htm
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  • Kai Aknin on 08 Mar 11
     
    Difficulty of capturing micro-expressions

Wordorigins.org - 0 views

www.wordorigins.org etymology
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Speech Buddies - 1 views

www.diigo.com/...h4vq language_acquisition phonetics speech_pathology
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  • Lisa Stewart on 06 Mar 11
     
    Those of you who saw speech therapists when you were little might be interested in this funny ad.
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Study: Math Skills Rely on Language, Not Just Logic | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

www.wired.com/...homesigning-numbers homesigners deafness sign_language math numbers
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  • Homesigners in Nicaragua are famous among linguists for spontaneously creating a fully formed language when they were first brought together at a school for the deaf in the 1970s. But many homesigners stay at home, where they share a language with no one. Their “home signs” are completely made up, and lack consistent grammar and specific number words.
  • Over the course of three month-long trips to Nicaragua in 2006, 2007 and 2009, Spaepen gave four adult Nicaraguan homesigners a series of tests to see how they handled large numbers. They later gave the same tasks to control groups of hearing Nicaraguans who had never been to school and deaf users of American Sign Language (which does use grammar and number words) to make sure the results were not just due to illiteracy or deafness.
  • When asked to recount the vignettes to a friend who knew their hand signals, the homesigners used their fingers to indicate the number of frogs. But when the numbers got higher than three or four, the signers’ accuracy suffered.
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  • Oddly, the homesigners did use their fingers to keep track of objects, the way children use their fingers to count. Spaepen thinks the signers use each individual finger to represent a unique object — the index finger is the red fish, the middle finger is the blue fish — and not the abstract concept of the number of fish. “They can’t represent something like exactly seven,” Spaepen said. “What they have is a representation of one-one-one-one-one-one-one.”
  • Ryan Catalani on 09 Feb 11
     
    "Psychologists had already suspected that language was important for understanding numbers. Earlier studies of two tribes in the Amazon - one that had no words for numbers greater than five and another whose counting system seemed to go "one, two, many" - showed that people in those tribes had trouble reporting exactly how many objects were placed in front of them. But in those cultures, which don't have monetary systems, there might be no need to represent large numbers exactly. The question posed was whether language kept those Amazonian people from counting, or a lack of cultural pressure. To address that question, Spaepen and colleagues turned to Nicaraguan homesigners, deaf people who communicate with their hearing friends and relatives entirely through made-up hand gestures."
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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.
    • Lisa Stewart
      Lisa Stewart on 06 Mar 11
       
      This reminds me of the Vikings' effect on Anglo-Saxon.
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Foul Play: Sports Metaphors as Public Doublespeak - 10 views

www.stolaf.edu/...metaphors.pdf metaphor sports politics
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  • Jesse Crabtree on 07 Jan 11
     
    Article touching upon the usage of sports metaphors in our culture
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Google N-gram Viewer - Culturomics - 0 views

www.culturomics.org/...A-users-guide-to-culturomics text_analysis
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  • The Google Labs N-gram Viewer is the first tool of its kind, capable of precisely and rapidly quantifying cultural trends based on massive quantities of data. It is a gateway to culturomics! The browser is designed to enable you to examine the frequency of words (banana) or phrases ('United States of America') in books over time. You'll be searching through over 5.2 million books: ~4% of all books ever published! 
  • Basically, if you’re going to use this corpus for scientific purposes, you’ll need to do careful controls to make sure it can support your application. Like with any other piece of evidence about the human past, the challenge with culturomic trajectories lie in their interpretation. In this paper, and in its supplementary online materials, we give many examples of controls, and of methods for interpreting trajectories. 
  • Lisa Stewart on 05 Mar 11
     
    more detail from Harvard about how to use N-gram
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Google Ngram Viewer - 2 views

ngrams.googlelabs.com/info text_analysis
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  • Lisa Stewart on 05 Mar 11
     
    explains how to interpret the results
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