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Shakespeare in the original pronunciation - 1 views

kottke.org/...-in-the-original-pronunciation shakespeare
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  • Ryan Catalani on 26 Oct 10
     
    "American audiences will hear an accent and style surprisingly like their own in its informality and strong r-colored vowels... Meier said audiences will hear word play and rhymes that "haven't worked for several hundred years (love/prove, eyes/qualities, etc.)" Plus a sample video.
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Trash Talk Studies in College Athletes - 18 views

www.jcu.edu/psychology/people/rainey/Ath%20Trash%20Talk.doc ► trash-talk athletics
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  • Lisa Stewart on 22 Oct 10
     
    This is someone's PhD dissertation in the field of psychology
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Erica Benson's Homepage - 1 views

people.uwec.edu/...lingresources.htm linguistics web_resources
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  • Lisa Stewart on 22 Oct 10
     
    An excellent compilation of lots of websites in different areas of linguistics
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Julia Weisenberg: Leet Speak - 1 views

www.julieweisenberg.com/presentations.htm leet_speak
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  • Lisa Stewart on 22 Oct 10
     
    have to click on the presentation title
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History of English Orthography - Part I - 0 views

pages.towson.edu/...orthography1.htm spelling orthography orthographic history_English
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  • Lisa Stewart on 22 Oct 10
     
    Terrific narrated slide show by a linguistics professor at Towson University
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Texting habits change as students age, study shows - Tufts Daily - 11 views

www.tuftsdaily.com/ents-age-study-shows-1.2241582 texting college
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  • "Even though I live in closer proximity to my college friends than I did to my high school friends when I was in high school, in college everyone has different schedules, so it's just harder to coordinate," she said. "I would call instead of text, but it's just easier and more convenient to shoot off a quick text than to have a phone conversation because I'm always doing 20 things at once here, and my life is much more hectic in college than it was in high school."  
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textually.org: SMS Studies & Research - 7 views

www.textually.org/...cat_sms_studies_research.htm texting
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  • Lisa Stewart on 22 Oct 10
     
    337 summaries of research studies done on SMS (not organized except chronologically)
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Enduring Voices Project -- National Geographic - 1 views

travel.nationalgeographic.com/...enduring-voices extinction
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  • Ryan Catalani on 21 Oct 10
     
    "Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth ... may disappear." National Geographic wants to help by "identifying language hotspots ... and documenting the languages and cultures within them."
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"Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names" Infographic Poster - 1 views

www.good.is/...f-rap-names-infographic-poster
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  • Ryan Catalani on 21 Oct 10
     
    Rappers' names, organized. Full size: http://j.mp/cCj04J
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FeralChildren.com | Language acquisition in feral children - 3 views

www.feralchildren.com/...language.php
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  • Ryan Catalani on 20 Oct 10
     
    Including information on the Forbidden Experiment, Critical Period hypothesis, Victor of Aveyron, Genie, and others.
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FeralChildren.com | Contradictions And Unanswered Questions In The Genie Case: A Fresh ... - 5 views

www.feralchildren.com/...pager.php
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  • Ryan Catalani on 20 Oct 10
     
    "The discrepancies between the two accounts which have been identified here are genuine, farreaching, and not merely apparent discrepancies. [...] it is clear that a definitive judgement on the character and extent of Genie's linguistic development still cannot be given."
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BBC News - Deaf people 'can rewire brains' - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...health-11501120 deaf
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  • Ryan Catalani on 20 Oct 10
     
    "People deaf from birth may be able to reassign the area of their brain used for hearing to boost their sight, suggests a study."
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Verbing brand names: Why, perhaps, we google | The Economist - 1 views

www.economist.com/...verbing_brand_names
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  • Ryan Catalani on 19 Oct 10
     
    His theory: brand names become verbs if: 1. There's no good, pre-existing verb 2. There's not already a verbed brand name (like how we say Googled, and not yahooed or binged)
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