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Google Ngram Viewer - 4 views

ngrams.googlelabs.com text_analysis
shared by Lisa Stewart on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
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  • Ryan Catalani on 20 Dec 10
     
    Graphically compare the popularity of phrases over time.
  • Lisa Stewart on 04 Jan 11
     
    This would be great for someone's field research--thanks, Ryan!
  • Lisa Stewart on 05 Mar 11
     
    Google's own book corpus tool
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YouTube - The Seven Words - 6 views

www.youtube.com/watch george_carlin profanity wordsrus
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  • Lisa Stewart on 04 Mar 11
     
    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
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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
  • 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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Etymologic: the toughest etymology (word origin) game on the Web - 12 views

www.etymologic.com/index.cgi etymology word_game wordsrus
shared by Lisa Stewart on 15 Nov 09 - Cached
  • 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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Foreign Languages & Literatures - Western Illinois University - 2 views

wiu.edu/...learn_a_language_drop.sphp
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  • Kai Aknin on 03 Mar 11
     
    Generalized benefits of learning a foreign language.
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Language and Culture:  Learning Language - 2 views

anthro.palomar.edu/...language_4.htm
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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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Final Report: Intimacy | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH - 31 views

digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/book-intimacy teens relationships texting
shared by Lisa Stewart on 13 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Lisa Stewart on 13 Sep 10
     
    research-based on digital technologies and teen "courtship" practices
  • 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

www.youtube.com/watch middle_english canterbury_tales chaucer
shared by Lisa Stewart on 07 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Lisa Stewart on 07 Oct 10
     
    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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  • Lisa Stewart on 16 Apr 10
     
    the best resource
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Memory for Musical Attributes - 33 views

cognet.mit.edu/...chap13.pdf brain memory pattern music song_lyrics
shared by Lisa Stewart on 27 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Lisa Stewart on 27 Sep 10
     
    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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  • Lisa Stewart on 15 Nov 09
     
    listserve response to request for linguistics resources
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Futurity.org - In other words: Metaphors matter - 8 views

www.futurity.org/...n-other-words-metaphors-matter metaphor
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  • Ryan Catalani on 02 Mar 11
     
    "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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