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Hot Topic: Origin of Language
The CSA database provides summary info. about the origin of language, entitled Language Origins:
Did Language Evolve Like the Vertebrate Eye, or Was It More Like Bird Feathers?. Includes a several page summary, citations, web sites, and a glossary.
In related news, Hampshire just subscribed to LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts), which offers citations to linguistics articles from 1973 to present. CSA provides detailed info. about LLBA as well.
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Lis Problems With Recursion
An odd bit of indexing news regarding the New Yorker article on linguistics. As you can tell from my post, and certainly from the article itself, it's primarily about linguistics and language. It's also tangentially about Christianity, as Everett...
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It Was Romany I Chose
Heard a great story from the BBC (via the World's Technology Podcast, which is a great review of tech issues around the world) about efforts to revitalize the Romani language with the help of a British linguist and the Internet. The World Techology...
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Hot Topic: Cryptography
The CSA database provides summary info. about cryptography, entitled Quantum Cryptography: Privacy Through Uncertainty. Includes a several page summary, citations, web sites, and a glossary....
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New Web Sites In Linguistcs
Added a few new sites to the "Doing Research in Linguistics" page: - History of the English Language Annotated links are arranged chronologically and range from Pre History to American & Present Day English. Page hasn't been updated since August 2002....
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New "ling 449e Biology Of Language" Course!
LING 449E Biology of Language Course Fall 2015 TTH 2:00 pm-3:15 pm Instructor: Chris Heffner What defines human language? Are other animals capable of using language in the same ways that humans can? These questions and more will be discussed in...
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