"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."
Hemispheric Dominance Test - 1 views
Shakespeare in the original pronunciation - 1 views
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"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.
Trash Talk Studies in College Athletes - 18 views
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This is someone's PhD dissertation in the field of psychology
Erica Benson's Homepage - 1 views
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An excellent compilation of lots of websites in different areas of linguistics
Julia Weisenberg: Leet Speak - 1 views
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have to click on the presentation title
History of English Orthography - Part I - 0 views
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Terrific narrated slide show by a linguistics professor at Towson University
textually.org: SMS Studies & Research - 7 views
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337 summaries of research studies done on SMS (not organized except chronologically)
Enduring Voices Project -- National Geographic - 1 views
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"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."
"Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names" Infographic Poster - 1 views
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Rappers' names, organized. Full size: http://j.mp/cCj04J
FeralChildren.com | Language acquisition in feral children - 3 views
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Including information on the Forbidden Experiment, Critical Period hypothesis, Victor of Aveyron, Genie, and others.
FeralChildren.com | Contradictions And Unanswered Questions In The Genie Case: A Fresh ... - 5 views
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"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."
BBC News - Deaf people 'can rewire brains' - 1 views
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"People deaf from birth may be able to reassign the area of their brain used for hearing to boost their sight, suggests a study."
Verbing brand names: Why, perhaps, we google | The Economist - 1 views
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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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