Neuroscience
The linguists among you might enjoy this Language Log blog. Covers such interesting and lexically significant topics as the semantics of "tightie whities", possible cognitive benefits of television, and brain structure in Williams Syndrome. Created by Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thanks to Emily for the link.
- 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...
- 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...
- More About Al Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
The New York Times reported on Feb. 1, 2005 about a new sign language developing in the Negev desert of Israel. More recently, New Scientist covered the story as well, in their Oct. 22, 2005 issue. In A language is born, Michael Erard reports several...
- 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...
- 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...
Neuroscience
Language Log Blog
The linguists among you might enjoy this Language Log blog. Covers such interesting and lexically significant topics as the semantics of "tightie whities", possible cognitive benefits of television, and brain structure in Williams Syndrome. Created by Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thanks to Emily for the link.
- 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...
- 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...
- More About Al Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
The New York Times reported on Feb. 1, 2005 about a new sign language developing in the Negev desert of Israel. More recently, New Scientist covered the story as well, in their Oct. 22, 2005 issue. In A language is born, Michael Erard reports several...
- 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...
- 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...