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• Why do consumers dislike corporate brands that get too familiar?
  Although it is tempting to use the word we to make consumers feel like part of the family, people react negatively when brands overstep their boundaries, according to a new study.Wed, 16 May 2012, 12:25 PM // sciencedaily.com
• You are what you eat: Why do male consumers avoid vegetarian options?
  Why are men generally more reluctant to try vegetarian products? According to a new study consumers are influenced by a strong association of meat with masculinity.Wed, 16 May 2012, 12:25 PM // sciencedaily.com
• OMG! Texting ups truthfulness, new iPhone study suggests
  Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study.Wed, 16 May 2012, 09:02 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Playful games promote reading development
  Short but intense training sessions in the form of structured language games from the age of four can stimulate children’s early language development and may also make it easier for children to learn…Tue, 15 May 2012, 02:23 AM // sciencedaily.com
• No Child Left Behind Act improved test scores for language but not for reading, math in rural Alabama, US
  The No Child Left Behind Act has bolstered language test scores but done little to improve math and reading scores for students in rural Alabama schools, according to a new study.Thu, 10 May 2012, 11:19 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Evolution's gift may also be at the root of a form of autism
  A recently evolved pattern of gene activity in the language and decision-making centers of the human brain is missing in a disorder associated with autism and learning disabilities, a new study shows.Thu, 10 May 2012, 09:28 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Computer scientists show what makes movie lines memorable
  Researchers who applied computer analysis to a database of movie scripts think they may have found the secret to a memorable movie line - use familiar sentence structure but incorporate distinctive wo…Tue, 8 May 2012, 07:00 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Emotion can shut down high-level mental processes without our knowledge, in our native language
  Psychologists believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. They have…Tue, 8 May 2012, 02:35 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Scientists tuning in to how you tune out noise
  Although we have little awareness that we are doing it, we spend most of our lives filtering out many of the sounds that permeate our lives and acutely focusing on others – a phenomenon known as audit…Tue, 8 May 2012, 12:20 PM // sciencedaily.com
• 'Blindness’ may rapidly enhance other senses
  Not only is there a real connection between vision and other senses, but that connection is important to better understand the underlying mechanisms that can quickly trigger sensory changes, according…Tue, 8 May 2012, 12:20 PM // sciencedaily.com

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• Gestures fulfill a big role in language
  People of all ages and cultures gesture while speaking, some much more noticeably than others. But is gesturing uniquely tied to speech, or is it, rather, processed by the brain like any other manual…Tue, 8 May 2012, 12:20 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Cocktail party acoustics: How humans perceive sound in noisy and complex environments
  For the ears, a cocktail party presents a chaotic scene: glasses clink, voices buzz, light piano music may waft down from the stage. A group of researchers is trying to understand how the brain makes…Tue, 8 May 2012, 12:19 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Risk of Future Emotional Problems Can Be Identified During Well-Child Visits
  A new study suggests clinicians might be able to identify children at risk of later emotional or behavioral problems by paying attention to a few key signs during early well-child check-ups.Fri, 4 May 2012, 02:19 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Infants begin to learn about race in the first year
  A new study confirms that though born with equal abilities to tell other-race people apart, by age 9 months infants are better at recognizing faces and emotional expressions of same-race people and th…Wed, 2 May 2012, 10:29 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Pointing a finger work much better than using pointed arrows
  Images of pointing fingers are much better at diverting people's attention than directional arrows, new psychology research suggests. Researchers have shown that biological cues like an outstretched i…Wed, 2 May 2012, 06:18 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Bilingualism fine-tunes hearing, enhances attention
  A new study provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals' rich experience with language fine-tunes their auditory nervous system and helps them juggle linguistic input in ways that enhance a…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 12:20 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Neurodevelopmental disorders: How human cells 'hold hands'
  Biologists have advanced the knowledge of human neurodevelopmental disorders by finding that a lack of a particular group of cell adhesion molecules in the cerebral cortex -- the outermost layer of th…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 09:47 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Low-income moms under stress may overfeed infants
  Efforts to prevent obesity among low-income infants should focus not only on what babies are being fed but also the reasons behind unhealthy feeding practices, according to a new study.Sun, 29 Apr 2012, 05:11 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Study finds twist to the story of the number line: Number line is learned, not innate human intuition
  Tape measures. Rulers. Graphs. The gas gauge in your car, and the icon on your favorite digital device showing battery power. The number line and its cousins -- notations that map numbers onto space a…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 04:27 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Thinking in a foreign language helps economic decision-making
  In a study with implications for businesspeople in a global economy, researchers have found that people make more rational decisions when they think through a problem in a non-native tongue. People ar…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 06:39 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Evaluating the first drug to show improvement in subtype of autism
  In an important test of one of the first drugs to target core symptoms of autism, researchers are undertaking a pilot clinical trial to evaluate insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) in children who have…Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 12:43 PM // sciencedaily.com
• How selective hearing works in the brain: 'Cocktail party effect' explained
  The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works -- how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs -- has just been solved. Psychologists have known f…Wed, 18 Apr 2012, 10:50 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Cognitive abilities of rett syndrome patients have been underestimated for decades, researchers find
  Children with Rett Syndrome, who cannot speak or use their hands to communicate and therefore were thought to be unable to understand and process information, do in fact exhibit meaningful visual sear…Tue, 17 Apr 2012, 11:38 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Preschoolers' reading skills benefit from one modest change by teachers
  A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found.Tue, 17 Apr 2012, 05:01 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Baboons display 'reading' skills, study suggests; Monkeys identify specific combinations of letters in words
  Learning to read is not just to do with speech, but also with the ability to recognize and memorize regular patterns among the letters that make up words, according to a new study on baboons. New resu…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 09:52 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Consumerism and its antisocial effects can be turned on -- or off
  Money doesn't buy happiness. Neither does materialism: research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 02:59 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Tackling dyslexia before kids learn to read
  For children with dyslexia, the trouble begins even before they start reading and for reasons that don't necessarily reflect other language skills. This study for the first time reveals a causal conne…Thu, 5 Apr 2012, 10:14 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Bilingual children switch tasks faster than speakers of a single language
  Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a study funded in part by the National I…Tue, 3 Apr 2012, 08:20 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Being bilingual wards off symptoms of dementia
  New research explains how speaking more than one language may translate to better mental health. Scientists examine how being bilingual can offer protection from the symptoms of dementia, and also sug…Thu, 29 Mar 2012, 09:46 AM // sciencedaily.com
• In immersion foreign language learning, adults attain, retain native speaker brain pattern
  In a series of studies, researchers demonstrate that the kind of exposure you have to a foreign language can determine whether you achieve native-language brain processing, and that learning under imm…Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 02:22 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Getting in rhythm helps children grasp fractions, study finds
  Tapping out a beat may help children learn difficult fraction concepts, according to new findings. An innovative curriculum uses rhythm to teach fractions at a California school where students in a mu…Thu, 22 Mar 2012, 07:02 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Brain's involvement in processing depends on language's graphic symbols
  Readers whose mother tongue is Arabic have more challenges reading in Arabic than native Hebrew or English speakers have reading their native languages, because the two halves of the brain divide the…Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 07:53 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Believing the impossible: No evidence for existence of psychic ability found
  Research failing to find evidence for the existence of psychic ability has been published, following a year of industry debate.Thu, 15 Mar 2012, 06:47 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Emotional expression in music and speech share similar tonal properties
  Music is a very strong emotional communicator, and different cultures have different emotional associations for different musical modes. Now, a new cross-cultural study shows that tonal trends used to…Wed, 14 Mar 2012, 02:23 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Motivation to be active may lead to impulsive behavior
  Those motivated to actively change bad habits may be setting themselves up for failure, a new study suggests.Wed, 14 Mar 2012, 09:42 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Scientists tap the cognitive genius of tots to make computers smarter
  People often wonder if computers make children smarter. Scientists are now asking the reverse question: Can children make computers smarter? It appears so.Tue, 13 Mar 2012, 09:17 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Research aims for better diagnosis of language impairments
  Recent studies aim at finding better ways to diagnose young children with language impairments. The work could lead to better treatments for individual children with communication disorders.Tue, 13 Mar 2012, 06:00 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Biologists locate brain's processing point for acoustic signals essential to human communication
  In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. Knowing how the brain sorts…Thu, 8 Mar 2012, 10:28 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Deafening affects vocal nerve cells within hours
  Portions of a songbird's brain that control how it sings have been shown to decay within 24 hours of the animal losing its hearing.Wed, 7 Mar 2012, 10:22 AM // sciencedaily.com
• The right type of words: Words spelled on right side of keyboards lead to more positive emotions
  Words spelled with more letters on the right of the keyboard are associated with more positive emotions than words spelled with more letters on the left, according to new research by cognitive scienti…Wed, 7 Mar 2012, 08:27 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Scientists ID 2,000 genes in zebra finch brain linked to singing: May teach us about human speech disorders
  The song of a small bird is providing valuable insights into human speech and speech disorders. Scientists have now discovered that some 2,000 genes in a brain region of a male bird called the zebra f…Wed, 7 Mar 2012, 06:46 AM // sciencedaily.com
• New brain imaging and computer modeling predicts autistic brain activity and behavior
  New research provides an explanation for some of autism's mysteries and gives scientists clear targets for developing intervention and treatment therapies. Scientists used brain imaging and computer m…Tue, 6 Mar 2012, 10:16 AM // sciencedaily.com
• When our eyes serve our stomach
  Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world; they're affected by what's going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clea…Fri, 2 Mar 2012, 04:39 PM // sciencedaily.com
• New computers respond to students' emotions, boredom
  Emotion-sensing computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states -- including frustration and boredom -- has now been developed.Fri, 2 Mar 2012, 10:25 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Predicting children's language development
  We depend on a barrage of standardized tests to assess everything from aptitude to intelligence. But do they provide an accurate forecast when it comes to something as complex as language? A new Langu…Tue, 28 Feb 2012, 09:39 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Bird brains follow the beat
  By training birds to ‘get rhythm’, scientists uncover evidence that our capacity to move in time with music may be connected with our ability to learn speech.Fri, 24 Feb 2012, 12:27 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Girls' verbal skills make them better at arithmetic, study finds
  While boys generally do better than girls in science and math, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new study finds that the advantage comes from girls' superior verbal skills…Thu, 23 Feb 2012, 10:30 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Brain makes call on which ear is used for cell phone
  A new study finds a strong correlation between brain dominance and the ear used to listen to a cell phone, with more than 70 percent of participants holding their cell phone up to the ear on the same…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 09:47 AM // sciencedaily.com
• You can't do the math without the words: Amazonian tribe lacks words for numbers
  An anthropological linguist has shown that the language of the Piraha, an Amazonian tribe, lacks number words and as a result the people have a difficult time performing common quantitative tasks. The…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 07:40 AM // sciencedaily.com
• New study looks at medication use of kids with autism, ADHD
  Many children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can benefit from medication for disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Mon, 20 Feb 2012, 01:12 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Puzzle play improves math skills
  An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers. Psychologists recently conducted a study that found two-four year-old children, who play with puzzles,…Fri, 17 Feb 2012, 07:19 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Norwegian success in creating an artificial child's voice
  “Synthesized speech has grown more and more similar to human speech. Yet children communicating via a speech device are still forced to use a synthetic adult voice,” explains a researcher developing t…Fri, 17 Feb 2012, 07:13 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Texting affects ability to interpret words
  Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people's linguistic ability to interpret and accept words, according to a linguisti…Thu, 16 Feb 2012, 01:57 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Puzzle play helps boost learning math-related skills
  Children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial skills, researchers have found. Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition after controlling for…Thu, 16 Feb 2012, 06:46 AM // sciencedaily.com
• How fast you walk and your grip in middle age may predict dementia, stroke risk
  Simple tests such as walking speed and hand grip strength may help doctors determine how likely it is a middle-aged person will develop dementia or stroke.Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 03:58 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa
  Last year, a report claiming to support the idea that the origin of language can be traced to West Africa appeared in Science. The article caused quite a stir. Now a linguist has challenged its conclu…Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 11:30 AM // sciencedaily.com
• People forage for memories in the same way birds forage for berries
  Humans move between ‘patches’ in their memory using the same strategy as bees flitting between flowers for pollen or birds searching among bushes for berries.Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 10:48 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Email language tips off work hierarchy
  Members of the modern workforce might be surprised to learn that if they use the word “weekend” in a workplace email, chances are they’re sending the message up the org chart. The same is true for the…Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 09:17 AM // sciencedaily.com
• How Do Children Learn to Read Silently?
  Researchers uses eye-tracking technology to chart oral-to-silent reading transition.Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 09:17 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Six to nine-month-olds understand the meaning of many spoken words
  At an age when ba-ba and da-da may be their only utterances, infants nevertheless comprehend words for many common objects, according to a new study.Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 12:40 PM // sciencedaily.com

Scientific American

• Traveling Salesman: A Seemingly Unsolvable Problem Offers a Glimpse of the Limits of Computation
  Is it hopeless to try to compute the shortest route to visit a large number of cities? Not just a good route but the guaranteed shortest. The task is the long-standing challenge known as the traveling…Fri, 18 May 2012, 05:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Older Adults Prize Accuracy More Than Speed
  Older adults often take longer to make a decision than young adults do. But that does not mean they are any less sharp. According to research at Ohio State University, the slower response time of olde…Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• When Pro-Vaccine Messaging Backfires
  Americans get a stream of messages telling them to avoid vaccines, from Jenny McCarthy on Oprah to billboard animations shown in Times Square. The responsible solution--fight back with forceful pro-va…Sat, 12 May 2012, 10:00 PM // rss.sciam.com
• Imagining the Future Invokes Your Memory
  I remember my retirement like it was yesterday. As I recall, I am still working, though not as hard as I did when I was younger. My wife and I still live in the city, where we bicycle a fair amount an…Sat, 12 May 2012, 05:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• MIND Reviews: Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
  Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs [More] Fri, 11 May 2012, 10:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Why Science Is Better When It's Multinational
  Nations are rivals in soccer and international relations, but science is a unifying force. Many of our biggest achievements seem to come from international collaborations. A team from 11 laboratories…Wed, 9 May 2012, 05:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Psychiatry's "Bible" Gets an Overhaul (preview)
  Editor's Note: Read our blog series on psychiatry's new rulebook, the DSM-5. [More] Mon, 7 May 2012, 04:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Sleepy Brains Think More Freely
  Early birds, save your creative challenges for just before bed. Your least productive time of day may be the perfect opportunity for a moment of insight, according to a study from a recent issue of Th…Sun, 6 May 2012, 08:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Readers Respond to "The Google Effect"--and More
  BAD MEMORIES [More] Fri, 4 May 2012, 10:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Stonehenge Had Lecture Hall Acoustics
  The stone slabs of England's Stonehenge may have been more than just a spectacular sight to the ancient people who built the structure; they likely created an acoustic environment unlike anything they…Thu, 3 May 2012, 02:35 PM // rss.sciam.com

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• Are Believers Really Happier Than Atheists? (preview)
  Alain de Botton, a prominent writer and outspoken atheist, has a grand vision to nurture a truly secular society. He foresees awe-inspiring monuments dedicated to nature. Museum and hotel designs woul…Thu, 3 May 2012, 05:07 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Motherhood, Not Discrimination, May Account for the Gender Gap in Tenure-Track Science Jobs
  Nearly half of all college math majors are women, and females now score as well as males on standardized math tests. Yet only about 30 percent of Ph.D.s in mathematics--and fewer in computer science,…Tue, 1 May 2012, 05:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Concrete Plans Curb Creativity
  Do you have a plan to save money, exercise more or call your mother? Making those plans concrete might help you achieve those goals but at the cost of some flexibility, according to a study published…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 05:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• MIND Reviews: Imagine: How Creativity Works
  Imagine: How Creativity Works [More] Fri, 27 Apr 2012, 10:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• The Neuroscience of Habits: How They Form and How to Change Them [Excerpt]
  Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business ( Random House, 2012 ) by Charles Duhigg [More] Fri, 27 Apr 2012, 10:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Slight Genetic Variations Can Affect How Others See You
  When we meet new people, we assess their character by watching their gestures and facial expressions. Now a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA suggests that those nonverb…Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 07:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Brain Seeks the Voice among Many Speakers
  It’s tough to pick a familiar face out of a crowd--but focusing on a known voice in a noisy room is easy. And a new study scanned volunteers’ brains to look at how we solve the so-called cocktail part…Sun, 22 Apr 2012, 10:03 PM // rss.sciam.com
• Why Booze Makes Some People Belligerent
  Some people are friendly drunks, whereas others are hostile, potentially endangering themselves and others. The difference may lie in their ability to foresee the consequences of their actions, accord…Fri, 20 Apr 2012, 05:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• How Advertisements Manipulate Behavior (preview)
  The birth of subliminal advertising reads almost like a script from a television show. In this real-life story, the spotlight falls on James M. Vicary, an independent marketing researcher. [More] Fri, 20 Apr 2012, 05:05 AM // rss.sciam.com
• The Rue Age: Older Adults Disengage from Regrets, Young People Fixate on Them
  Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret, wrote 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in his political novel, Coningsby . Hyperbole aside, he may have mixed things up a…Thu, 19 Apr 2012, 12:00 PM // rss.sciam.com

New Scientist

• Virtual reality provides relief from soldiers' trauma
  Soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder show improvements in their symptoms through virtual simulations of combatThu, 17 May 2012, 07:44 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Phineas Gage brain pathways mapped for the first time
  A detailed model of the brain of the world's most famous neuroscience patient may provide insight into degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer'sThu, 17 May 2012, 03:08 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Trials highlight worrying flaws in psychiatry 'bible'
  Testing psychiatry's new diagnostic handbook has flagged problems in diagnosing several mental disordersThu, 17 May 2012, 12:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Explosions cause brain damage through head movement
  Brain trauma from explosions often experienced by soldiers are caused by sudden head movements rather than high-pressure shockwavesWed, 16 May 2012, 11:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Brain-controlled arm could beat paralysis
  A paralysed woman sipping a cup of coffee with a robotic arm becomes the first human to use their brain signals to manipulate a real-world objectWed, 16 May 2012, 10:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Sweat-sensing bracelet could detect fatal seizures
  A device that measures skin conductance could monitor and perhaps even predict when life-threatening seizures are about to strikeWed, 9 May 2012, 09:26 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Kinect cameras watch for autism
  An automated system that keeps watch over children could spot the telltale signs of autism and lead to earlier diagnosesTue, 8 May 2012, 02:43 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Bilingual brain boost: Two tongues, two minds
  Speaking a second language can change everything from problem-solving skills to personality – almost as if you are two peopleTue, 8 May 2012, 12:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Rebooted neurons halt brain degeneration in mice
  Tackling the root cause of brain cell death could open up common treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's – but some researchers are scepticalSun, 6 May 2012, 10:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Brain sees metaphor and simile differently
  Aristotle may have found little difference between simile and metaphor, but our brains apparently do not agreeFri, 4 May 2012, 03:35 AM // feeds.newscientist.com

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• The curse of Generation Me
  For decades it has been fashionable to boost our children's self-esteem. Could we be setting them up for a fall?Thu, 3 May 2012, 12:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Analytical thinking erodes belief in God
  Our intuitive thought processes, which underpin supernatural beliefs, can be overcome by thinking analyticallyThu, 26 Apr 2012, 11:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Brain may not be hard-wired to link numbers and space
  Our ability to map numbers onto a physical space – such as along a line – must be learnedWed, 25 Apr 2012, 02:00 PM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Human nature: Being gossipy
  Language has shaped our nature profoundly - and arguably, our way with words reaches its apogee in gossipMon, 23 Apr 2012, 04:44 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Human nature: Being clandestine
  Nothing is quite as puzzling as our predilection for clandestine copulation. Why do humans have sex in private?Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 04:24 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Human nature: Being epicurean
  Compared with other animals, the feeding behaviour of humans is exceedingly odd. Where they just eat, we make a meal of itMon, 23 Apr 2012, 04:08 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Human nature: Being legislative
  Chimps stick to simple behavioural norms, but we humans, with our language skills and greater brainpower, have developed much more elaborate systems of rules, taboos and etiquetteMon, 23 Apr 2012, 04:05 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Human nature: Being scientific
  Humans are constantly sorting the world into categories, predicting how things work, and testing those predictions - the essence of scienceMon, 23 Apr 2012, 03:31 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Human nature: Being playful
  All mammals play - but no other species pursues such a wide variety of entertainment or spends so much time enjoying themselvesMon, 23 Apr 2012, 03:27 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• We're closing in on consciousness in the brain
  Brain observatories may solve the puzzle of how material brains create an intangible world of love, colour, taste and fantasy, says Christof KochFri, 20 Apr 2012, 05:35 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• ‘Cocktail party effect' identified in the brain
  Now we can visualise the workings of the brain as it picks out one voice from many othersWed, 18 Apr 2012, 10:35 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Pocket decider: How your phone shapes your choices
  Clever algorithms inside smartphone apps and websites can subtly steer our everyday decisions, from the food we eat to the products we buyWed, 18 Apr 2012, 02:19 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Gold nanoparticles boost accuracy of brain surgery
  The particles could help surgeons locate and remove hard-to-see brain tumours by visualising the cancerous cells in three waysTue, 17 Apr 2012, 05:51 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Best evidence yet that a single gene can affect IQ
  A single-letter change in DNA makes a difference, though the effect is small, raising IQ by only 1.29 pointsMon, 16 Apr 2012, 04:07 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Aliens, but definitely not as we know them
  Are everyday objects, such as apple pies or microchips, aliens? It depends how you think about what it's like to be a thing, says author Ian BogostFri, 13 Apr 2012, 02:47 AM // feeds.newscientist.com

The Linguist List

• 23.2397, Review: Historical Ling; History of Ling; Socioling: Langer, Davies & Vandenbussche (2012)
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• 23.2396, Books: Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Foolen, Lüdtke, Racine, Zlatev (Eds)
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• 23.2395, Books: Doing English Language: Goddard
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• 23.2394, Books: The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry: Kaplan
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• 23.2393, Books: Evaluation in Translation: Munday
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• 23.2392, Calls: Uralic, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling, General Ling/Hungary
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• 23.2391, Books: The Languages of Japan and Korea: Tranter (Ed)
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• 23.2390, Review: Language Documentation; Ling Theories: Haig et al. (2011)
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• 23.2389, Review: Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics: Brenes Peña (2011)
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• 23.2388, Review: Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics: Mackey & Gass (2011)
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• 23.2387, Review: Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax: Runner (2011)
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• 23.2386, Books: Modified: Navlipi, Volume 1: Chandrasekhar
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• 23.2385, FYI: Free Articles: Int'l Journal of Lexicography
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• 23.2384, FYI: Linguistic Research Project on Petridish.org
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• 23.2382, Review: Anthropological Ling.; Language Documentation: Senft (2011)
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• 23.2381, Confs: Computational Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation, General Ling/India
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• 23.2380, Calls: Typology/France
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• 23.2379, Review: Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics: Huber (2011)
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• 23.2378, Review: Phonetics; Phonology: Goldsmith, Hume & Wetzels (2011)
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• 23.2377, Confs: Language Acquisition/UK
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• 23.2376, TOC: International Review of Pragmatics 4/1 (2012)
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• 23.2375, TOC: Journal of Language Contact 5/1 (2012)
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• 23.2374, Books: Word Order: Song
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• 23.2373, Jobs: Russian; Semantics; Syntax: Consultant/Researcher, Appen Butler Hill
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• 23.2372, Jobs: Standard Arabic; Semantics; Syntax: Consultant/Researcher, Appen Butler Hill
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• 23.2368, Review: Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics: Crystal (2011)
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• 23.2367, Books: Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics: Gray, Block, Holborow
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• Norwegian Crime Novel Headed For Hollywood
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• Big Ben leaning just slightly
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• German 'forest boy' mystery deepens
  GERMAN police are no closer to discovering the real story behind the mysterious forest boy after concluding that the teen - who identifies himself ...Mon, 10 Oct 2011, 08:05 AM // inform.com
• Big Ben Is Bending
  The British Parliament's world famous clock tower is leaning just slightly, with the top of its gilded spire about one-and-a-half feet off the...Mon, 10 Oct 2011, 07:52 AM // inform.com
• How Babies Sort Out Language
  Once, experts feared that young children exposed to more than one language would suffer language confusion, which might delay their speech...Mon, 10 Oct 2011, 07:09 AM // inform.com
• Free school gets go-ahead in Wapping
  A free school backed by actress Helen Mirren was today given the go-ahead to open next year.. . Almost half the pupils at the Wapping High School...Mon, 10 Oct 2011, 06:45 AM // inform.com
• Understanding just some of the complicated baseball terminology
  Like most sports, baseball has developed a language of its own over the nearly century and a half the game has been played in America. To even the...Mon, 10 Oct 2011, 06:37 AM // inform.com
• The Weekend's TV: City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri, Fry's Planet Word
  Obviously, everyone on the planet was watching The X Factor last night. That or Antiques Roadshow. They are, incidentally, virtually the same...Mon, 10 Oct 2011, 05:52 AM // inform.com
• Arsenal and Man City clearly lost in translation
  The universal language of football has been tested to the limit in recent weeks, as the camps of Man City and Arsenal alongside others try to piece...Mon, 10 Oct 2011, 05:29 AM // inform.com
• iPads in, dictionaries out
  Ipads are now considered a core part of Kiwi spending habits, with prices ultimately helping dictate how much we pay for a mortgage. Dictionaries ...Mon, 10 Oct 2011, 05:18 AM // inform.com

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• Languages on Papua vanish without a whisper
  Who will speak Iniai in 2050? Or Faiwol? Moskona? Wahgi? Probably no-one, as the languages of New Guinea -- the world's greatest linguistic reservoir -- are disappearing in a tide of indifference.YoseThu, 21 Jul 2011, 04:25 AM // inform.com
• Google translates more India languages
  Google on Tuesday expanded its free Internet translation service to include five languages spoken by more than a half million people in India and Bangladesh.Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and TelugTue, 21 Jun 2011, 05:25 PM // inform.com
• Book Talk: Weaving a novel from a threat of history
  NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Little is known of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, a member of the Wampanoag tribe on Martha's Vineyard believed to be the first Native American to graduate from Harvard in 1665.OnlThu, 9 Jun 2011, 06:33 AM // inform.com
• Japanese language traced to Korean Peninsula: study
  Japan's many dialects originate in a migration of farmers from the Korean Peninsula some 2,200 years ago, a groundbreaking study borrowing the tools of evolutionary genetics reported Wednesday.The finWed, 4 May 2011, 03:25 PM // inform.com
• Bin Laden burial followed Islamic custom: official
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was buried at sea from the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the north Arabian Sea after being washed according to Islamic custom and receivingMon, 2 May 2011, 09:13 AM // inform.com
• Arabic second-most common Australian tongue
  Arabic is the most commonly spoken language after English by young people in Australia, a study has revealed, with about one in eight multilingual children using it in the home.The Australia Early DevFri, 15 Apr 2011, 01:25 PM // inform.com
• Zulu newspapers thrive in South Africa
  Five newspapers line a vendor's makeshift table built from cardboard and sticks but most customers go straight for Isolezwe, one of South Africa's growing Zulu-language dailies.I guess people feel coMon, 4 Apr 2011, 02:25 AM // inform.com
• Being bilingual a good brain work-out, experts say
  Speaking more than one language protects the brain against cognitive decline and makes a person better at multi-tasking, researchers said Friday at a major US science conference.Being bilingual, or evFri, 18 Feb 2011, 04:25 PM // inform.com
• Deaf dog gets sign language training
  KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A dog who couldn't hear has learned some sign language thanks to inmates at a U.S. prison and children at a school for the deaf.Inmates at a Missouri prison trained tWed, 9 Feb 2011, 07:45 AM // inform.com
• Deaf dog in U.S. gets sign language training
  KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters Life!) - A dog who couldn't hear has learned some sign language thanks to inmates at a U.S. prison and children at a school for the deaf.Inmates at a Missouri prison traWed, 9 Feb 2011, 06:25 AM // inform.com
• Deaf dog adopted by deaf kids after learning sign language
  KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Most people may be reluctant to adopt a deaf dog, but what if they were deaf themselves?The idea made sense to inmates at a Missouri prison who trained a deaf dachshuTue, 8 Feb 2011, 01:53 PM // inform.com
• Multi-lingual Federer's extra workload
  Multi-lingual Roger Federer says his language skills have made for a more varied life although it means he has to give extra interviews.The Swiss all-time great eased into his eighth consecutive AustrTue, 25 Jan 2011, 01:25 PM // inform.com
• Jamaicans using patois version of Bible's Luke
  Jamaicans celebrate Christmas week with patois translation of Gospel bookDuring Sunday church services and private celebrations in Jamaica, Christmas week prayers are being flavored with the first patSun, 19 Dec 2010, 03:12 PM // inform.com
• Sri Lanka scraps minority language anthem
  Sri Lanka scraps minority Tamil language version of its national anthemSri Lanka has scrapped its national anthem's minority Tamil language version, a move that may add to the country's ethnic tensionMon, 13 Dec 2010, 02:46 AM // inform.com
• Surge in US students of Arabic: study
  Arabic was the fastest-growing foreign language for US university study last year, with enrollments growing by more than 46 percent compared to 2006, a study released Wednesday showed.Besides English,Wed, 8 Dec 2010, 01:25 PM // inform.com
• Foreign language courses growing on campuses
  Foreign language courses growing on college campuses despite threats of budget cutsA growing number of college students are studying foreign languages, a trend propelled by greater interest in Arabic,Wed, 8 Dec 2010, 06:42 AM // inform.com
• Tintin in Hindi travels to India
  The globe-trotting adventures of intrepid boy reporter Tintin have been opened up to hundreds of millions of Hindi speakers in India after translations by a local enthusiast.The first eight of the oriTue, 30 Nov 2010, 10:25 AM // inform.com
• Activities for Deaf Students
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• Rising British University Tuition Fees May Mean More Study Abroad
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• Geography
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• Language Training Tools
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• Focus on Literacy - Initial Consonant Blends and Digraphs
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• Functionalism
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• Focus on Literacy - Initial and Final Consonant Word Study
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• Find TEFL Materials for Teaching Core Skills to EFL Students
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• Automatic translation will kill off shared languages
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• The Lak Dargin languages
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• How to Test Reading Skills
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• Language Learning -- Improve Your Foreign Language Skills
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• How To Do A Split Hospital Birth - Passing The Father's Test
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• How to Improve Spoken English Register and Style
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• Chinese regions fight back against surge of Mandarin
  GUANGZHOU, China/SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) - From the remote mountains of Tibet to the soaring skyscrapers of Shanghai and Guangzhou, an unlikely issue has emerged to both anger and unite China's dispSun, 21 Nov 2010, 10:50 PM // inform.com
• How to Teach Onset & Rime
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• How to Learn Russian the Easy Way
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• How do I Use a Bank TEFL?
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• How to Teach Long & Short Vowel Sounds
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• Linguistic characteristics
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• General: More troops need African language skills
  Top general says US must move more quickly to train troops in African languages and culturesA top general says the Pentagon needs more troops trained in African cultures and languages to better confroThu, 18 Nov 2010, 12:32 PM // inform.com
• New foreign elements
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• Basic Phonics for K-3 Teachers and Improved Reading Instruction
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• The Amazing Variety and Number of Native American Languages
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• Best Sign Language Apps for Android
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• China Digital TV CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
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• Alphabet soup that fails to communicate anything
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• The influences of context and general knowledge
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• Where to Translate French into English for Free
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• How Learning to Read Changes the Cortical Networks for Vision and Language
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• A Click of the Tongue
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• The Time is Now
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• Talking Robot Mouth Video
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• How to Change Languages in "Sacred 2"
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• An Island in a Principality on an Island
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• Socio-Economic issues for Design & Semiotics
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• KESS(Korean Educational Statistics Software)
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Language Log

• Lacking semantic support from unexpected quarters
  Reader PN wrote to comment on the first sentence of  a story by Andres Oppenheimer in the Miami Herald, US unlikely to condemn Argentina’s ‘outlaw behavior’ — yet, Miami Herald 5/16/2012: A U.S. congr…Sun, 20 May 2012, 05:11 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
  
• Rating American English Accents
  If you're a native speaker of American English, a Dutch linguist needs your responses to an accent questionnaire: In this questionnaire we will ask you as a native U.S. English speaker to rate the pro…Sat, 19 May 2012, 07:55 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Is this a great photo or what!
  That was the start of my heading-comment on a photo of my son Dave. Ensuing back-and-forth on Facebook between me and Andy Rogers (with a relevant interpolation from my son Morriss): Andy Rogers: Shou…Fri, 18 May 2012, 09:52 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Help Wanted: Sharing Data for Research on Reading and Writing
  On Friday, July 20, at the 2012 meeting of the Council of Writing Program Administrators in Albuquerque NM, there will be a session called Help Wanted: Sharing Data for Research on Reading and Writing…Fri, 18 May 2012, 06:11 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• For reals
  The most recent SMBC: Though I'm a long-time fan of SMBC, and especially grateful for the math jokes, I feel that this one is slightly spoiled by the questionable use of the term Discrete Mathematics.…Thu, 17 May 2012, 10:40 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Translinguistic taboo avoidance: Arabicizing "Ayrault"
  Bloomberg reports (rather delicately) that the name of France's new prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, is causing a bit of problem when it is transliterated into Arabic: When spoken, his family name i…Thu, 17 May 2012, 09:06 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Interdental substitutions
  A funny ad: There are several serious questions behind the joke. One has to do with L1 effects: Why do speakers of some languages (Thai, Russian, Hungarian) characteristically substitute [t] for [θ],…Thu, 17 May 2012, 07:38 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Blizzard Challenge 2012
  Every year since 2005, speech synthesis researchers have organized a yearly Blizzard Challenge, [i]n order to better understand and compare research techniques in building corpus-based speech synthesi…Wed, 16 May 2012, 06:33 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• A sentence more ambiguous than most
  On Facebook, Fahrettin Şirin shared this special card for linguists and other lovers of ambiguity: I love ambiguity more than most people is of course ambiguous, since it could mean I love ambiguity m…Tue, 15 May 2012, 02:30 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• It depends on what "the" means …
  Semantics in the John Edwards trial (James Hill and Beth Lloyd, John Edwards Defense Relies on Definition of 'The', Good Morning America 5/13/2012): Not since Bill Clinton challenged the definition of…Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:11 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

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• Bible Science stories, revisited
  William Deresiewicz, Capitalists and Other Psychopaths, NYT 5/12/2012: THERE is an ongoing debate in this country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, whether they are good or…Sun, 13 May 2012, 03:58 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Thurber on "Who and Whom"
  In her review of Henry Hitchings' The Language Wars: A History of Proper English, Joan Acocella expressed some annoyance that Hitchings could dare to suggest that the “who”/“whom” distinction may be o…Sun, 13 May 2012, 09:00 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• "The world's oldest in-use writing system"?
  [This is a guest post by Gene Buckley.] I was catching up on my stack of New York Times magazines, and I came across a mini-article in their One-Page Magazine feature from January 15. I couldn't find…Sat, 12 May 2012, 01:34 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• A half century of usage denialism
  Yesterday, I discussed Joan Acocella's strange misreading of two essays introducing the fifth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary (Rules and 'rules', 5/11/2012). John Rickford wrote that the p…Sat, 12 May 2012, 07:41 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Rules and "rules"
  Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer writes: Is there going to be a language log comment on the article The English Wars  in the current issue of the New Yorker?  I find it completely shocking to see that an…Fri, 11 May 2012, 05:31 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

Language Hat

• SAX AND DAGGER.
  The Dictionary of Old English offers a word of the week, and last week it was hand-saex, with which Warren Clements has some fun in his Globe and Mail column; surprisingly (to me—I wasn't familiar wit…Sun, 20 May 2012, 06:25 PM // languagehat.com
  
• DIGITAL DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
  A report of a nice project:In September 2011, Google and the Israel Museum launched the ambitious Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, with the aim of eventually making English translations and high-reso…Sat, 19 May 2012, 04:13 PM // languagehat.com
• SABELLIAN.
  When I was studying Indo-European, back in the Jurassic Era, Sabellian was considered to mean... well, I'll quote Webster's Third International: one or all of a number of poorly known languages or dia…Fri, 18 May 2012, 08:06 AM // languagehat.com
• BUSINESS IS IN THE HAT!
  An LJ post by glo_ku (in a sort of English after the first paragraph) reveals a wonderfully Joycean sense of wordplay, and would make an excellent test of a student's mastery of Russian idioms, colloq…Thu, 17 May 2012, 08:03 AM // languagehat.com
• TOLSTOY OR DOSTOEVSKY?
  As Paul, who sent me the link, wrote, To me this is asking : which is better eating, poulet de Bresse roasted with herbs or prime New York strip perfectly char-grilled ? And of course he's right, and…Wed, 16 May 2012, 05:24 PM // languagehat.com
• ON NOT LICKING YOUR FILL.
  I ran across a Russian proverb I couldn't interpret, «Не наелся — не налижешься» (literally [if/since] you didn't eat your fill, you won't lick your fill), so I asked Sashura, who can explain everythi…Tue, 15 May 2012, 07:34 AM // languagehat.com
• EMERY.
  Nigel McGilchrist's LRB review of David Abulafia's magisterial The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (I confess I'm a sucker for words like magisterial) got me so fired up I went to the…Mon, 14 May 2012, 03:55 PM // languagehat.com
• MORE ON MACHINE TRANSLATION.
  Even though I'm deeply skeptical of the idea that automatic translation will ever be more than barely adequate (which is often good enough, as I insisted here), I continue to be interested in discussi…Sun, 13 May 2012, 05:45 PM // languagehat.com
• DOWN WITH PALATALIZATION!
  A recent post at Anatoly's blog (now called просто здесь красный, где у всех голубой, a quote from Aquarium's song 8200) shows an absolutely hilarious sign held up by a protester: Мы за пересмотр итог…Sat, 12 May 2012, 04:23 PM // languagehat.com
• IGNORANT BLATHERING AT THE NEW YORKER.
  Joan Acocella is the longtime dance critic of the New Yorker. I imagine she's a fine dance critic; I don't know or care anything about dance, so I wouldn't know one way or the other, but when I've dip…Fri, 11 May 2012, 07:52 PM // languagehat.com

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• NEW OLD LANGUAGE.
  The Independent has a story by David Keys, Ancient language discovered on clay tablets found amid ruins of 2800 year old Middle Eastern palace, that will make the heart of any aficionado of the ancien…Thu, 10 May 2012, 03:00 PM // languagehat.com
• SYM AND EM.
  I've always been a little confused by the words sympathy and empathy, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone. I'm even more confused after reading this passage in Jenny Turner's LRB review of Together: The…Wed, 9 May 2012, 05:41 PM // languagehat.com
• THE TRANSLATOR IN THE TEXT.
  I've finally gotten to Rachel May's The Translator in the Text: On Reading Russian Literature in English, which Noetica gave me for Christmas, and it's just as good as I expected. I've read the first…Tue, 8 May 2012, 06:46 PM // languagehat.com
• ADHERENT.
  The latest xkcd is a jolly and cleverly done parody of the Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance; the only thing that bothers me is that in the fourth panel from the end, the line By dubbi…Mon, 7 May 2012, 05:59 PM // languagehat.com
• FASHIONS IN GIVEN NAMES.
  Mark Liberman at the Log has a post on the changes over time in fashions for given names. It's obvious that things change — but it's less obvious whether these changes are cyclic. It makes sense that…Sun, 6 May 2012, 05:30 PM // languagehat.com

Games With Words

• Since one can't be snarky in a response to a review...
  I'll do it here. I am currently revising a paper for resubmission. On the whole, the reviews are fairly reasonable, with the exception of one cranky comment from a reviewer who complains that our lit…Mon, 7 May 2012, 08:47 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The Psychologist on Replication
  The Psychologist solicited opinions on the importance of replication from a number of researchers, including yours truly. See a preview here. Thu, 19 Apr 2012, 08:47 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Eadweard J. Muybridge & Google Doodle
  Today's Google Doodle is a fantastic tribute to Muybridge. I haven't found a permalink, but people looking after today can find it archived in a fashion on youtube. Sun, 8 Apr 2012, 09:57 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Point-light walkers
  By far the best point-light walker demonstration I've seen is at biomotiolab.ca. I'm classifying this as an illusion (see post label) because, of course, point-light walkers aren't really walking peop…Fri, 23 Mar 2012, 09:37 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fair Use & FedEx
  And now for something completely different:One private citizen's trials and travails trying to convince FedEx to print posters. I have wanted a map of Hong Kong on my wall for some time. The Survey &…Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 03:36 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Are you a Red Sox or Yankees fan?
  If so, a colleague has a short survey for you. It seems she is trying to get together as much data as possible for a talk next week. Apparently there is also an opportunity to win a $50 gift card, tho…Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 03:00 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Zeno
  Many people are familiar with Zeno's paradox, though probably not in the form presented by XKCD: (If you aren't familiar with it or need a refresher, just follow the link above.) Perhaps this is widel…Thu, 15 Mar 2012, 09:59 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Color illusion -- too cool to believe
  By far the most striking visual illusion I've ever seen. A little bit of color after-effect turns a black-and-white photograph into a vivid color photograph. You may have to do it a few times to convi…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 06:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Results: Replication in Psychology
  My paper with Adena Schachner on replication in psychology is now published. The paper contains 3 main sections: a reasonably thorough literature review on replication rates in psychology, a proposal…Wed, 7 Mar 2012, 10:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Pilot data
  I am back from a long semi-silence.I have been trying to finish up a number of projects, which gives me less time to write. Speaking of… One of the focuses of my work is figuring out how children lear…Sun, 4 Mar 2012, 07:33 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

More

• Someday we will hopefully have good dictation software. For now, there is Dragon Dictate
  Mary Grover at Salon has distilled the essence of using Dragon Dictate into a brief post. I couldn't possibly do better -- or even as well -- so I refer you to it. I was assured by several people that…Fri, 17 Feb 2012, 07:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• More on DragonDictate
  DragonDictate continues to do a decent job of writing my email, so long as I don't talk about work. For writing papers, etc., it continues to be of limited use. I was just dictating notes on how child…Sun, 30 Oct 2011, 10:33 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• DragonDictate
   I have been doing a great deal of writing lately, though obviously not here. I thought that perhaps at some point in graduate school, I should try getting some of the projects I have done published,…Wed, 5 Oct 2011, 05:32 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ethics
  I'm doing my periodic re-certification on research ethics. One of the questions on one of the quizzes is as follows: TRUE/FALSE: A good alternative to the current peer review process would be web logs…Mon, 19 Sep 2011, 08:14 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Nature, Nurture, and Bayes
  I generally have very little good to say about the grant application process, but it does force me to catch up on my reading. I just finished several papers by Amy Perfors, who I think does some of th…Sat, 30 Jul 2011, 12:59 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Statistics for Idiots
  Republicans in the House are proposing to cut funding for food safety programs, despite a rise in food-born illness. Congressman Jack Kingston explains, that the nation's food supply is 99.99 percent…Wed, 22 Jun 2011, 06:31 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NSF fellows can teach again
  I reported last month that NSF was no longer allowing its graduate fellows to teach. According to an email I received earlier today, they are reconsidering the issue: Each Fellow is expected to devote…Fri, 20 May 2011, 03:11 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New editor at Cognition (eventually)
  There are no doubt many psychologists who don't count Cognition as their favorite journal. I just don't happen to know very many of them. Whenever the topic of favorite journal comes up, Cognition it…Sun, 15 May 2011, 06:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Above average!
  It's often repeated that the median study is cited less 0 times. I haven't been able to find a citation for that, but if it is true, all my papers are now above median. My birth order paper has now be…Mon, 9 May 2011, 03:40 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Survey on Replication
  Are you a researcher working in psychology or related domains (neuroscience, linguistics, etc.)? A colleague and I are conducting a survey on replication in these fields, for inclusion in an upcoming…Sat, 23 Apr 2011, 09:52 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The pace of review
  One of my manuscripts will shortly enter its 7th month of being under review. Apparently one of the three reviewers keeps promising to send in a review but never does. Now the 4+ months a different ma…Sat, 23 Apr 2011, 09:45 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What the Best College Teachers Do: A Review of a Vexing Book
  What the Best College Teachers Do is not a bad book. It is engaging and reasonably well-written. The topic is both evergreen and timely, and certainly of interest to college teachers at the very least…Tue, 19 Apr 2011, 08:31 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The missing linking hypothesis
  Science just published a paper on language evolution to much fanfare. The paper, by Quentin Atkinson, presents analysis suggesting that language was invented just one time in Africa. That language fir…Fri, 15 Apr 2011, 08:51 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Arcadia
  The super-lame New Yorker review of the recent Broadway revival of Stoppard's Arcadia moved me to do a rare thing: write a letter to the editor. They didn't publish it, despite the fact -- and I think…Thu, 14 Apr 2011, 06:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Graduate School Rankings
  There have been a number of interesting posts in the last few days about getting tenure (1, 2, 3). One thing that popped out at me was the use of the National Research Council graduate school rankings…Wed, 6 Apr 2011, 06:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

Johnson

• Another cock-up
  DIPLOMATS and international pressmen are treading lightly around Jean-Marc Ayrault, France’s new Prime Minister. When transliterated phonetically into Arabic, Ayrault (eye-ro) is a word for the male o…Fri, 18 May 2012, 10:19 PM // economist.com
• Posting slowdown
  THIS blogger has just begun an 18-year study of infant language acquisition and child bilingualism, so posting will be light until I return from paternity leave the week after next.Thu, 17 May 2012, 04:19 PM // economist.com
• Oi gioi oi!
  A FOREIGNER rapping about the annoyances and joys of living in Hanoi might not sound like the hit of the year. But add one common Vietnamese expression, and strangely enough you have something that ri…Mon, 14 May 2012, 07:01 PM // economist.com
• Oprima dos for better cognition
  MANY people report feeling like different people when they speak a foreign language. I've been sceptical of these claims, since many of them seem to line up too neatly with national stereotypes: I fee…Tue, 8 May 2012, 11:36 AM // economist.com
• What colour is your language, contd.
  A FEW days ago we pointed to a clever way of colour-coding the words in an English sentence to show their various origins. This particular method was automated, but a manual version of the approach is…Mon, 7 May 2012, 07:41 AM // economist.com
• Don't assume you can see what is right in front of you
  CONFUSING, ambiguous headlines sometimes make it into newspapers. How can this be so, when the writers are trained professionals whose job is making a story clear in a few words? The answer is that, h…Fri, 4 May 2012, 12:55 PM // economist.com
• Anticipating
  AT Language Log, Mark Liberman describes as prescriptivist poppycock the notion that anticipate can't be used to mean simply to expect. The poppycock in question comes from the Telegraph which, in tur…Thu, 3 May 2012, 10:39 AM // economist.com
• What colour is your language?
  TODAY's fun item comes from Ideas Illustrated, where a few different texts have been color-coded by word-origin. Take, for example, this passage from Great Expectations:  Enlarge The pink items are th…Wed, 2 May 2012, 12:43 PM // economist.com
• The F-word in court
  I'M NOT going to follow my usual practice of mocking the New York Times for bending over backwards to avoid a swear-word. True, this piece so conspicuously avoids the most versatile of the classic Ang…Tue, 1 May 2012, 01:06 PM // economist.com
• Bereavement to orientation tomes!
  PETER MARK ROGET was, by all accounts, a bit of a nerd. Some kids collect stamps; others meticulously record baseball scores. Mr Roget made lists. Though many grow out of their childish obsessions, th…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 08:44 AM // economist.com

More

• Useful, yes. But mandatory?
  TSEDAL NEELEY, an assistant professor at Harvard, wants all employees of multinational companies to speak English, no matter where in the world they are or what they do. Ms Neeley makes the case for a…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 04:02 AM // economist.com
• You can't say that
  STAN CAREY has a sensible post today on his dislike of the idea of banning words.  Many a writer has earned the Curmudgeon Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster by penning a list of detested clichés or fashiona…Thu, 26 Apr 2012, 09:36 AM // economist.com
• Space: the final frontier
  FREEDOM of information laws are excellent for promoting transparency in government. They are also, it seems, a good way for language geeks to get their kicks. In 2010, the signals-intelligence (SIGINT…Fri, 20 Apr 2012, 11:50 AM // economist.com
• Oh no
  REGULAR readers know Johnson doesn't shy away from earthy, common language. But we also take seriously standards in language, including in journalism. So my eyes did an involuntary double take when I…Wed, 18 Apr 2012, 10:49 AM // economist.com
• Hooray for Hollywood?
  MEMORABILITY is something we all strive for, whether it’s making a big impression at a party or leaving a legacy to the world. Some are philanthropic; others are heroic. But for many—especially those…Tue, 17 Apr 2012, 11:32 AM // economist.com
• Swedish hens and singular "they"
  SLATE's Nathalie Rothschild wrote last week about gender in Sweden. Among Swedish efforts to minimise gender stereotyping is a small movement to replace the pronouns han and hon, he and she, with a si…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 09:25 AM // economist.com
• Obscure by design
  JOHN WELLS, a phonetician, writes about Expedia's print ads attempting various dialects and accents of the British Isles. The travel-booking site wants you to imagine a cheap holiday with the slogan I…Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 06:47 AM // economist.com
• Google this
  YESTERDAY I wrote, regarding Rosetta Stone's suit against Google, It's hard to imagine a buyer being snookered into thinking he was buying Rosetta Stone when he was actually buying a (say) Living Lang…Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 11:06 AM // economist.com
• Breaking out the big puns
  THERE was a time when I thought of a banana skin upended on the sidewalk as a pretty good joke, but then one day it happened that I stepped on a slimy bit of orange, and the whole concept immediately…Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 05:01 AM // economist.com
• Google v Rosetta Stone
  HERE'S a story that plays into language in two different ways. Rosetta Stone has sued Google. Rosetta Stone makes whiz-bang, heavily marketed language-learning software.  I reviewed it in 2006, and fo…Tue, 10 Apr 2012, 10:50 AM // economist.com
• The entertainer
  David-Antoine Williams has Rush Limbaugh dead to rights. The American right-wing radio commentator is fond of saying things likeNow, look, folks, as I’ve told you countless times, I live in Literalvil…Fri, 6 Apr 2012, 07:46 AM // economist.com
• Whom do you trust?
  DO YOU love whom?  Stan Carey's exhaustive post on the case-marked pronoun says almost everything to be said on the subject, quoting everyone from those who put their foot down for whom to those who i…Thu, 5 Apr 2012, 12:31 PM // economist.com
• "Elegant variation", the good and the bad
  BEN YAGODA is marking the beginning of baseball season with a discussion of elegant variation. What is it about sportswriters that makes them avoid repetition to the point of substituting ridiculous s…Wed, 4 Apr 2012, 10:24 AM // economist.com
• A strange English dialect
  TRAINS are a great place to meet people. Close proximity to a complete stranger for a finite period of time expands the horizons. Thus your correspondent found himself on the 17.02 train from Newcastl…Tue, 3 Apr 2012, 08:14 AM // economist.com
• Gotta split
  YESTERDAY I sat writing a piece for the newspaper, and Tweeted, during a moment of frustrationSitting here looking at an infinitive that I absolutely must split.But Econ style book, even though we kno…Fri, 30 Mar 2012, 09:36 AM // economist.com

The Linguist

• Where university education is headed.
  Are Harvard and MIT spearheading change in university education or is it Stanford? Could it be LingQ one day? Read this article for an interesting dicussion about the changes that are already taking…Wed, 9 May 2012, 10:07 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Global TV's Word Play. Are polyglots just different?
  Global TV's program on polyglots was a bit of a disappointment in that it did not point out that anyone can learn another language, and another and another. Here is my video on the subject. Permalink…Sun, 6 May 2012, 04:43 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Word Play, a program about polyglots on Canada's Global Television
  Tune in at 7 pm tomorrow, Saturday night, if you are interested. Global Television did a program about polyglots. I was a small part of that program.   Permalink | Leave a comment  » Fri, 4 May 2012, 10:27 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• My language learning credo.
  Language learning is a personal activity. I do it for myself. I learn the language for my own reasons and in my own ways. I focus my efforts on those aspects of the language that interest me the most…Thu, 3 May 2012, 03:35 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Why floundering is good.
  We tend to learn better if we struggle a bit on our own, according to this article.  Trying to figure something out on your own before getting help actually produces better results than having guidan…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 04:34 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How to speak like a native.
  Thanks to Susanna Zaraysky who sent me this.  Time reviews a book, in an article called How to speak like a native, about achieving native fluency, which basically seems to concur that this is a futi…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 09:53 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Sounding like a native.
  Check out this video of an American speaking excellent Spanish, and I mean excellent. His name is Richard Vaughan, of the Vaughan language schools in Spain. (He should plug LingQ for me since I am pl…Sun, 22 Apr 2012, 08:39 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fluency in Five Days, sort of.
  In October I will in Prague for five days. I hope to have a high degree of mostly passive vocabulary and familiarity with Czech and convert this to active fluency in five days. This is in line with i…Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 04:48 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Polyglot meet up in Toronto
  Well I flew down to Toronto, just under five hours in the air. Slept poorly in a stuffy hotel room. Went through a fire drill in the middle of the night, just to keep me on my toes. But then, as is a…Tue, 10 Apr 2012, 06:27 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Toronto, lots of concrete.
  I just arrived in Toronto, courtesy of Global Television. I had to give up my Easter Weekend, and I had to miss two games in an old-timers' hockey tournament. I am going to take part in a televions p…Fri, 6 Apr 2012, 08:43 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

More

• Heritage languages
  Promoting Heritage Languages is a popular issue with certain educators. Something they can feel good about. I suspect part of the reason is ideological. To me, it seems part of the multicultural impu…Tue, 3 Apr 2012, 05:05 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Talent in language learning and vocabulary. Richard Simcott.
  I finally got the sound right and the first of our discussions is now up. Permalink | Leave a comment  » Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 06:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Discussion with Richard Simcott
  Tomorrow I am having the first of my discussions with Richard Simcott, the excellent British polyglot, on youtube. I hope to discuss, in a few languages and over the next little while,  some of the f…Sat, 31 Mar 2012, 06:39 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Bilingualism helps stave off Alzheimer's
  This recent report is an old story, but I never tire of reading about it.  I am assuming that multilingual people are even more protected from Alzheimer's. No why is it that I seem to forgetting thin…Fri, 30 Mar 2012, 03:27 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Calling all Canadian hyperglots.
  Global Television is looking for Canadians who speak at least 6 languages for a TV program. Please let me know if you qualify or contact Michael Elard . He is the author of the book Babel No More, wh…Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 08:23 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Why I am unlikely to learn Esperanto.
  After my recent post about Esperanto, I received a number of comments, many from irate Esperanto enthusiasts, berating me for not considering Esperanto an important language to learn. This has caused…Tue, 27 Mar 2012, 08:39 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What is fluency?
  A former Mayor of Vancouver has launched a program called greeting fluency in which he wants to encourage people in Vancouver to learn to greet one another in different languages. Being able to say h…Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 10:15 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Esperanto, the most important language to learn.
  The Economist is running a poll on the most important language to learn. Esperanto is on top. More than anything this shows how skewed this kind of internet polling can be. If you asked 100 random pe…Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 10:06 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The world is full of linguists!
  I finally returned from my trip to the Cook Islands, New Zealand and Australia. I loved the layed back tropical paradise atmosphere of Roratonga, the green and clean nature of New Zealand, and the en…Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 06:07 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Raratonga, paradise
  My wife and I are loving our first visit to the Southern Hemisphere. Our first stop was Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Rarotonga is only 10 hours from Los Angeles. A delightful little island, 32 km i…Tue, 13 Mar 2012, 01:54 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Lousy Linguist

• frish snow peace
  Native American English speakers, wanna hear all about frish snow peace, a plastik snak, and shtella's brudder boob? Please take a few moments to judge the foreignness of some audio clips of people sp…Sat, 19 May 2012, 01:36 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Blizzard 2012!!!!!
  Oh hell yeah, it's on. Blizzard Challenge 2012 ... I dare ya ... I double dog dare ya:Blizzard Challenge 2012We'll understand if you ain't got the stones, son. Ain't everyone cut out to face a challen…Wed, 16 May 2012, 07:05 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• That's how you Spiele gewinnt.
  It's bloody official, after just one day, I love Google Chrome's Language Immersion extension that translates snippets of text into the language of choice helping you learn the language. I used it to…Thu, 3 May 2012, 03:35 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• you win by finishing - end of semester study advice
  My niece, the world's most adorable human being (seriously, look it up), is finishing her second semester as a biology undergrad at a small state school in Northern California and she complained on Fa…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 06:23 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• The QHImp Qhallenge: Working memory in humans and Chimpanzees
  The kids at Replicated Typo have launched an interesting new game for us all to play: The QHImp Qhallenge: Testing the semantic hypothesis. Money quote: We’ve extended the QHImp Qhallenge to test Mats…Thu, 26 Apr 2012, 05:45 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Hunger Games & bad camera work
  Let actors act! I finally saw Hunger Games with my sister and neice. I became a Jennifer Lawrence fan after seeing Winter's Bone and I love the Hunger Games concept.Unfortunately, they hired a truly i…Sat, 7 Apr 2012, 11:27 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Sentiment Lexicons (a list)
  For those interested in sentiment analysis, I culled some of the sentiment lexicons mentioned in Jurafsky's NLP class lecture 7-3 and also discussed in Chris Potts' notes here:Harvard Inquirer SentiWo…Thu, 29 Mar 2012, 07:16 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Why every Pub Quiz team should have a Classicist...
  One benefit/drawback of playing pub quiz on Tuesday with a former ABD in Classics is that he just couldn't let this one go:An arctophile is a lover of what?Our team gave it a good try, but we fell fla…Thu, 23 Feb 2012, 05:14 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• I want my historical sentiment analysis ... and I want it NOW!
  The hot new shiny thang in 21st Century NLP is undeniably sentiment analysis. It's being used to track pop star popularity, political approval, and corporate satisfaction. But as far as I can tell, al…Wed, 22 Feb 2012, 05:02 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• my annual SOTU & word clouds rant
   Good to revisit: word clouds are the Fox News of linguistics (see here and here)Tue, 24 Jan 2012, 07:53 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com

More

• CompuPolitics or Wonkonomics?
  Philip Resnik, computational linguist extraordinaire, has requested name candidates for a “new domain of activity” he described recently in a Language Log post.But naming is not easy. It’s fun to mock…Tue, 24 Jan 2012, 07:07 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• the incoherent accents of Hugo
  Saw Hugo. It's more for big kids than little ones, imho. I enjoyed it and found its retro-whimsy entertaining, but the 3D is frustrating for someone who wears prescription glasses. It has a talented c…Fri, 25 Nov 2011, 07:00 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Perry's tip-of-the-tongue flubb
  Much virtual ink is being spilled/spilt about US Presidential candidate Rick Perry's tip-of-the-tongue gaff at Wednesday night's GOP debate. His inability to remember a third government department he…Fri, 11 Nov 2011, 07:13 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Calling all Brits stuck in the colonies...
  The Economist's Johnson blog wants Brits living in the US to take a dialect survey. One of the set-piece conversations that Britons living in America have with each other, besides how cold it is, how…Thu, 3 Nov 2011, 06:31 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• So, you want a real job?
  My guest post about the job market for linguistics outside academia at Zoltan Varju's blog is available here.Mon, 31 Oct 2011, 01:19 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• no one is scared of Johnny Depp (a film review)
  I just saw The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp. I enjoyed this film a lot. It is well paced, fun, beautiful, caustic, and funny ...yet... Depp just never seemed right as Thompson (thinly veiled as Paul…Fri, 28 Oct 2011, 07:45 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Stanford professors and grammatical illusions
  I started reading The Origins of Political Order by Stanford professor Francis Fukuyama when I stumbled across this sentence:But it is clear that the political job of finding the right regulatory mech…Fri, 9 Sep 2011, 05:47 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• "the definition of “metaphoricity” is problematic in itself"
  One of the metaphor recognition papers I read this week had an interesting finding wrt inter-annotator agreement and metaphor: The Automatic Identification of Conceptual Metaphors in Hungarian Texts:…Fri, 8 Jul 2011, 04:33 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• more on auto metaphor recognition methods
  A quick follow-up to my previous post on automatic metaphor recognition wrt the IARPA Metaphor Program. The paper Automatic Metaphor Recognition Based on Semantic Relation Patterns by Tang et al. chal…Thu, 7 Jul 2011, 07:52 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• the big picture: automatic metaphor identification
  The recently popularized IARPA Metaphor Program piqued my curiosity, so I've been reviewing a variety of articles on contemporary approaches to automatic metaphor identification. I've read three artic…Tue, 5 Jul 2011, 06:49 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• the largest whorfian study EVER! (and why it matters)
  Let me take the ball Mark Liberman threw on Monday and run with it a bit. Liberman posted a thorough discussion of Fausey and Broditsky's neo-Whorfian English and Spanish speakers remember causal agen…Fri, 1 Jul 2011, 05:33 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Through the Language Glass (Part 2) [reposted]
  This is part 2 of my review of Guy Deutscher's new book Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. This covers The Language Lens (129-249). Part 1 is here. This revi…Wed, 29 Jun 2011, 01:18 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Super 8: more homework than movie
  A rare non-linguistics post: Saw Super 8. Critics are spot on: it's a movie that shows how to construct a coherent narrative like they used to make. It is simple, straight forward. It makes contempora…Sat, 18 Jun 2011, 07:29 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• simple english wikipedia
  I didn't know this existed until it was referenced briefly in an unrelated article. Simple English Wikipedia:This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people…Wed, 15 Jun 2011, 07:03 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Shakespeare and the brain? maybe not...
  Jezebel, The Guardian, and other sources have been promoting recent neuroscience involving reading Shakespeare. This research has popped up in the blogosphere before and was widely misunderstood. I fe…Thu, 28 Apr 2011, 09:09 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com

Metrolingua

• Remembering my mom
  I usually don't post such personal stuff here, but I want to talk about my mom because she passed away exactly two weeks ago, and today would've been her birthday, which always fell on or near Mother'…Thu, 10 May 2012, 11:14 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Interview with Rick Kaempfer and Brendan Sullivan, authors of The Living Wills
  Recently, I read The Living Wills, which is a novel that at first seems disparate because it opens up with various characters that you think are disconnected, but in the end have some important connec…Sat, 14 Apr 2012, 05:48 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Take the train west
  I didn't post anything here during the past week because I took a train to Los Angeles, then stayed out there for a few days, and wow, do I feel refreshed and relaxed. I highly recommend taking a trai…Fri, 6 Apr 2012, 02:27 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• I wish I knew more about this Japanese fan
  I was looking online for Japanese kanji iPhone apps, and found some reviews at Zonjineko. I don't think there are that many anymore, since the review is from a couple of years ago, but the post made m…Thu, 29 Mar 2012, 10:40 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• the BBC doesn't have a Japanese news section
  I was talking to a Polish-born coworker the other day (he immigrated during his university years and became a US citizen) about good news sites, other than the Polish ones he reads, and he recommended…Thu, 22 Mar 2012, 08:56 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Bruce Lee drawing
  Kesan, aka the funny Chinese clown, drew this image of Bruce Lee, and added his screen name in Chinese, 李小龍 Xiaolong, which according to Wikipedia means little dragon. I think it's cool. (Kesan's last…Sat, 17 Mar 2012, 06:51 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Royce and Tali come to Chicago this Saturday
  I met Royce Deans five years ago through Deviantart, and since that time, he's really been doing a lot with art and has expanded his projects. He and Tali Farchi formed a painting endeavor called Pain…Thu, 15 Mar 2012, 10:03 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Sarah Vowell: the un-celebrity
  Sometimes I get a glimpse of showbiz when I go to Chicago Live because I edit some shows for broadcast on the radio. I've met various interesting people, and tonight, I got a chance to see and meet Sa…Thu, 8 Mar 2012, 08:42 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Apostrophe flow chart
  Finally, someone has explained correct apostrophe use with a graphic *and* text...thanks to HGPublishing for posting this.Sat, 3 Mar 2012, 06:50 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Interview with Rick Kaempfer, author of $everance
  Rick Kaempfer is a successful Chicago writer who wrote the excellent book $everance, which is a satire about the radio industry.Why did you write this book?I started writing this book in my head while…Tue, 28 Feb 2012, 10:30 PM // blog.metrolingua.com

More

• John St. Augustine interview
  People who read this blog might be interested in the interview I did with John St. Augustine, who has his own blog and has written a couple of books: Living an Uncommon Life and Every Moment Matters.…Wed, 22 Feb 2012, 01:29 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• I would be on my way to class now
  Today is Presidents' Day, which means I don't have to teach tonight. Usually I'd start wrapping up my day now to get on the road for my annoying commute to the southern part of the city, and I'd usual…Mon, 20 Feb 2012, 03:33 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• A Valentine to No One
  It's Valentine's Day, which means it's time to share a Valentine to No One:I can't tell you what I thinkI can't tell you how I feelSo I will send a Valentine to No OneA Valentine to No OneBecause you'…Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 06:49 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Got a new manga
  I have been consistently reading Japanese since I finished my third manga, even though I haven't had much time due to my usual complex work schedule and non-work responsibilities. I bought another man…Sun, 12 Feb 2012, 05:54 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• I finished my third manga!
  I just finished my third Japanese manga: Young Shima Kousaku (ヤング島耕作), which is a prequel of the Kacho Shima Kousaku (課長島耕作) series. This one was almost 200 pages. It had lots of drama: office politic…Mon, 30 Jan 2012, 10:57 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Bad typos won't help this biz
  I clicked on this internet ad to see what it was all about, and couldn't believe the glaring typos for a service that is language and writing-oriented. We all make mistakes, even after we proofread so…Thu, 26 Jan 2012, 08:18 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Jeweler or Jeweller?
  I was puzzled when I saw this sign because I thought the correct spelling is jeweler. I put correct in quotes because Merriam-Webster lists two spellings. I suspected that it's a British spelling, so…Fri, 20 Jan 2012, 12:58 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• I'm back! This is what I've been working on...
  Happy new year! I think this is the longest I've gone without posting on this blog, but at the end of 2011, I got more radio work (which receded this week), and in addition to that, I was doing my pai…Tue, 17 Jan 2012, 08:35 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Sweden is not in Eastern Europe
  I thought Whole Foods was more savvy than the average grocery store, but apparently they need some education: they say that these Swedish meatballs are a taste of Eastern Europe, but Sweden is in Nort…Wed, 14 Dec 2011, 02:07 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• They should've read their menu before printing it
  I saw this at an established, popular restaurant that has been around for years. So you know they have enough money to hire someone to proofread their menus, but apparently they didn't bother to do th…Mon, 12 Dec 2011, 09:03 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• A poem inspired by overnight radio
  Here's a poem that I saw at Dale Fanella's blog. Dale is a *very* talented and interesting guy who I worked with on a radio show a couple of years ago. Poem Inspired By Working Overnights In RadioUnde…Tue, 6 Dec 2011, 12:33 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• A conscientious bottle
  Wow, this silver polish is very conscientious: they included the phrase plus shake space after they indicated the content size. I wonder if anyone complained about an inaccuracy, which caused them to…Mon, 5 Dec 2011, 02:48 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• A bilingual sign I haven't seen
  I've seen this sign at only one drugstore (or chemist, as Brits say) in Chicago, and it's probably there because it's in a big tourist area and up the street from the German Consulate. I just had to t…Sun, 27 Nov 2011, 05:14 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Lyrics to the WKRP closing song
  Interesting timing: just after I did my last post about putting a dream to the side, I ended up having a series of intense work days, including some dream work, and I was way too busy to do anything b…Wed, 23 Nov 2011, 09:47 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Some good advice I can't find
  I've been searching for an article that gives advice to creative people (artists really) about pursuing their dream vs working at a regular job and doing the dream on the side. I remember finding the…Thu, 17 Nov 2011, 07:33 PM // blog.metrolingua.com

Paleoglot

• Athene's theory of everything
  An interesting video that relates a lot of science together into a thought-provoking package.Tue, 15 May 2012, 03:22 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• On the computational nature of syntax
  I found an amazing article called On the nature of syntax (2008) by Alona Soschen who, in a nutshell, uses language as a means to examine possible underlying features common to other adaptive systems.…Sat, 28 Apr 2012, 05:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The first person pronoun in Afro-Asiatic languages
  My mind lately has been seduced by some non-linguistic, programming-related material I've been researching busily on the side. However I'm ready to hop back into some lingering issues in my comment bo…Sat, 14 Apr 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Emergence of the Rank-5 society
  The evolution of cognition by William Benzon and David Hays is an endlessly fascinating read. I get the same sort of inspired buzz as when watching the Matrix and probably for the same reasons. Their…Fri, 6 Apr 2012, 03:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Learning, the unending battle against paradox
  I use my own personal models in order to understand things rather than merely adopting the exact model of another (ie. blind rote learning). I believe it's only by allowing oneself to freely explore a…Sun, 25 Mar 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Picking at TLE 939 some more
  I feel like revisiting artifact TLE 939 (aka ET Cr 0.4). There are a lot of different versions of the story on this and translations are hampered by irritating transcription disagreements and, alas, f…Sat, 3 Mar 2012, 08:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The magic of literacy
  As I read through Duane Smith's latest entry, Cuneiform writing and scribal values, I'm reminded once again that writing wasn't just a practical tool to store information for ancient people. It was so…Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Devotions to an Etruscan deity in TLE 939
  According to Helmut Rix's Etruskische Texte, an important resource that lists inscriptions on Etruscan artifacts, an inscription written on a vessel from Caere in the 7th century BCE labeled ET Cr 0.4…Wed, 22 Feb 2012, 04:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Plagiarism versus the new online reality
  Memiwanzi recently touches on the origin of the word plagiarism but in this one case, the meaning is far more interesting than the etymology to me. Ah plagiarism and its related demon, intellectual pr…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 07:40 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Flights of fancy and ornithomancy
  Duane Smith over at Abnormal Interests makes mention of The birds in the Iliad - Identities, interactions and functions by Karin Johansson. This is an excellent and welcomed addition to educational re…Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com

More

• Lasa and the transgendered deity
  The consensus on the Etruscan term lasa is that it may be equivalent to the Greek concept of 'nymph'. It might be possible someday to establish some kind of correspondence between Lasa and the Greek c…Sat, 11 Feb 2012, 03:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Thoughts to think about next...
  Alas, I have no methodically thought-out post for you all today. It's not as if I don't have thoughts to write about but it takes some time to structure ideas, find relevant links and get out nicely p…Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 04:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• A resting place
  Recently I've been investigating the Etruscan word hupni. Looking at the word, I had assumed a native formation in -ni which normally seems to mark persons elsewhere. I shrugged off the slightly awkwa…Wed, 25 Jan 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The holy goddess of sewers
  It started with looking up North African terms for 'rainbow' in Berber and Arabic. I confirmed that one Arabic expression is similar to the hypothetical Etruscan expression *Tluscval arcam that might…Fri, 20 Jan 2012, 03:30 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Explaining away "tlusc arc"
  A commenter reminded me of some unresolved issues regarding tlusc arc, written on the Liver of Piacenza artifact. The inscription in question can be seen inside the blue box in the picture above. To g…Sun, 15 Jan 2012, 03:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Coffee is culture
  Yasemin extolls the virtues of coffee and the culture surrounding it in Turkey on her blog Yasemin's Kitchen. I'm not Turkish but I do relate. She's got it right. Coffee isn't just the drink; it's the…Tue, 10 Jan 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Ghost words and anti-dictionaries
  I've mused before that what we need is an Etruscan anti-dictionary to reference all the words that have been made up over the decades out of thin air due to misanalyses by various scholars. Lazy autho…Sun, 8 Jan 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Baxter-Sagart reconstructions and Occam's Razor
  The internet abounds with information if we make the effort to search. One interesting find is a pdf of the Baxter-Sagart reconstruction of Old Chinese roots in tabular format. Excellent! But being an…Tue, 3 Jan 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Those who clutch on to the past have no future
  You can't rehabilitate shoehorn freaks like GG, blurts Douglas Kilday about me on Cybalist, a Yahoogroups forum originally devoted to Indo-European linguistics before devolving into a depraved gatheri…Tue, 13 Dec 2011, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Looking into the eyes of the Iceman
  Remember Ötzi the Iceman? He was that mummified man found back in 1991, ice-encased in the Alps somewhere around the border of Austria and Italy, having died some 5300 years ago at the age of approxim…Wed, 7 Dec 2011, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Sand-hundred
  Here's a funny little word in Greek: ψαμμακόσιοι (psammakósioi). It literally means 'sand-hundred', from ψάμμος 'sand' with the suffix for 'a hundred' attached. As you might have guessed, it conveys a…Sun, 4 Dec 2011, 06:00 AM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The historical use of non-decimal counting bases
  When we think of other cultures with alternative number bases, that is, counting systems other than the decimal system of one to ten that we've arbitrarily become accustomed to in the modern world, ma…Fri, 18 Nov 2011, 04:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• A matter of the Egyptian heart
  The Egyptians placed a lot of importance on the heart and it was believed to be the seat of the mind and the soul. In the English-speaking world, we usually treat heart as a symbolism of the feelings…Sat, 12 Nov 2011, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The reconstruction of the Pre-Egyptian case system
  Antonio Loprieno states something confusing to me on page 55 of Ancient Egyptian: A linguistic introduction (1995): Also, the ending *-u is still preserved, although functionally reinterpreted, in the…Thu, 10 Nov 2011, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Socrates' debate with Gorgias and others
  I'll get to Egyptian tomorrow, but for now please take a look at Plato's Gorgias on Perseus, which may be read both in its original Greek and also in English translation. It's then discussed on Youtub…Wed, 9 Nov 2011, 06:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com

Mr. Verb

• A linguistic plague. Yup.
  Five Thirty Eight has a new post on The most powerful special interest in Washington: The acronym. A post that starts with this is terrifying, at least to linguists:A linguistic plague is creeping thr…Sat, 19 May 2012, 04:04 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• The decline of ain't
  The Lingua Franca blog over at the Chronicle of Higher Education has a nice post from Allan Metcalf, of OK fame, on The decline and fall of a 4-letter word. He makes a nice point:“Ain’t” had the advan…Thu, 17 May 2012, 07:01 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• The Origin of Language: Solved!
  And you were wasting all that time pondering it, when that particular Big Question was answered in 1986!Background: I get a lot of education from reading Savage Love in the Onion, by the ever-amazing…Wed, 16 May 2012, 08:06 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Linguistics joke
  Thanks to a non-linguist, Celia Boone, for this.Sat, 12 May 2012, 11:56 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Defining Moments
  Joe & I met Steve Kleinedler at the recent DARE bash.  Had to look him up to describe him accurately; here's what I got:He is currently the executive editor of the dictionaries group at Houghton Miffl…Wed, 9 May 2012, 02:00 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• A new and easy way to help LINGUIST list
  Got this message from one of the LINGUIST list review editors here at the University of Wisconsin – Madison:Okay, everybody, be sure to change your usual Amazon link to the one given in this Linguist…Mon, 7 May 2012, 08:41 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Democrabeep!
  Everybody in Wisconsin knows that the recalls are coming fast and hard. The primary is Tuesday to select the D who'll run against the R (Walker) with that election to be decided on June 5, 2012.At noo…Sun, 6 May 2012, 07:31 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Of physics and philatelism: Erin McKean at the DARE conference
  In the last post on this blog, Mr. Verb announced the Dictionary of American Regional English events associated with the publication of the final volume of the dictionary proper. (Indexes, maps, data,…Sat, 5 May 2012, 07:46 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Dictionary of American Regional English: Congrats!
  The calendar's been marked in red today for months It's like waiting for Christmas or something: Today is the DARE conference on DARE and American dictionaries. See here, and especially check out the…Thu, 3 May 2012, 06:35 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Pin-pen merger
  This showed up in the in-box ... don't know where it came from, but it's cool. Thu, 26 Apr 2012, 02:20 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com

More

• Killing education in Wisconsin
  If you live in the rapidly deteriorating state of Wisconsin, you know the latest news, namely:Wisconsin is the only state in the nation that had statistically significant job losses over the past 12 m…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 05:09 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Pithy!
  The details of syntax are often complicated and hard to describe.  Bloomfield 1933:201.Yes, you may borrow that for your epigraph.Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 05:27 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• "Utter Bullshit"
  The NYT Magazine has a very interesting article today about current research on depression.  But of course it has to include some linguistic observations:We grow sorrowful, but we rarely describe ours…Sun, 22 Apr 2012, 11:46 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Crash blossom, political edition: "Wisconsin governor, indicted pol"
  Various linguablogs have discussed lots of 'crash blossoms' (see here). A couple of years ago over at the Log, Geoffrey Pullum quoted Chris Waigl as defining crash blossom this way:those train wrecks…Fri, 20 Apr 2012, 09:32 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Walker's weak but brazen spin
  I've been following Governor Scott Walker on Twitter for a good while now and there are two clear trends. First, most stuff is unspeakably trivial (as discussed here). Second, when there is a tweet of…Thu, 19 Apr 2012, 01:00 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Hopefully this is the end of THIS bit of peevology
  Lo and be-freakin-hold, the Associated Press has flipped on hopefully. Here's the WaPo story on it, and the key quote is:the venerated AP Stylebook publicly affirmed (via tweet, no less) what it had a…Wed, 18 Apr 2012, 01:08 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• More language and politics ... "he speaks French too"
  We started talking about language and politics in the upcoming elections a while back (like here on the English Only leanings of the Republican presidential candidates) and our last post was about a s…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 01:42 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Russ Feingold on the critical need for language learning
  Russ Feingold is a Wisconsin icon. If you go around Madison, you can easily find bumper stickers that say Russ Feingold will always be MY senator. He lost his last election to Ron Johnson (who's makin…Sat, 14 Apr 2012, 07:26 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Meme and 'Among the new words'
  Over on the American Dialect Society list, ads-l, there's been some discussion of the word 'meme'. That's enough excuse for me to call attention to the latest 'Among the new words' piece in American S…Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 09:45 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• some other body
  He's baaaaaaaack. George W. Bush reappeared yesterday to wish for distance from the tax cuts associated with his name:“I wish they weren’t called the Bush tax cuts,” the former president said as he ki…Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 05:20 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Let's go buy grocery!
  It's perfectly normal for me to talk about the delicious stuff you buy at a bakery as bakery.  As in, They sell the best bakery there!  Judging by Joe's reaction, this is not standard.  Just now I dis…Thu, 29 Mar 2012, 05:59 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Pirahã and the Grammar of Happiness
  Various members of Team Verb have joined in the discipline-wide call for linguists to make a better case to the general public for why what we do matters and why it's exciting intellectually. But I do…Thu, 22 Mar 2012, 05:28 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• LINGUIST and SpecGram
  Don't forget to join about 700 colleagues who've donated to LINGUIST in their fund drive.And just because I'm curious what the heck it means, here's a tweet from SpecGram. Your thoughts are welcome.Sun, 18 Mar 2012, 03:10 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Language = words = spelling, etc.
  When you see this headline in the Wall Street Journal, you might get nervous if you're a linguist (the WSJ piece is here and the article it discusses here:The New Science of the Birth and Death of Wor…Sun, 18 Mar 2012, 04:51 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• No, he didn't really...
  Santorum, um, bottomed out yesterday in Puerto Rico.  Not only did he say they had to embrace English as their official language, he also said (according to the Daily Kos):Like any other state, there…Thu, 15 Mar 2012, 05:47 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com

Separated by a Common Language

• tidbits and titbits
  I've been in blog-paralysis because everything I want to blog about would take a Very Long Time to write about and I'm supposed to be writing about other things. But along came Mrs Redboots on the Ly…Sat, 28 Apr 2012, 05:03 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• counting seconds
  Layah wrote to me about a year ago with this question: In America when you are trying to time counting seconds you often say Mississippi in between each number: One Mississippi, two Mississippi, thre…Sun, 1 Apr 2012, 03:41 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• catching up and catching breaks
  Mwncïod ‏ on Twitter asked:AmE/BrE diff? Watching US sit-com Big Bang Theory character says catch/caught a break vs BrE get/got a break?Get a break is not so much BrE as general English. Break meaning…Sun, 11 Mar 2012, 06:04 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• topping oneself, topping and tailing
  A short post, but this headline (courtesy of this tweeter) is worth reproducing: The headline is about an American basketball player, Jeremy Lin, who is all the rage these days. The problem is that t…Sun, 26 Feb 2012, 03:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• graft
  JL in New York wrote recently with this observation: Last week's Economist included an article (Executive Pay: Money for Nothing?, in the Britain section) that begins: Hard work builds character, and…Sun, 29 Jan 2012, 04:10 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• just about
  Continuing on the backlog of emailed requests, Ron Shields writes (well, wrote--in August) with: I have noticed football commentators in Britain using the phrase just about when a player is successfu…Thu, 12 Jan 2012, 04:25 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• haste makes waste / more haste, less speed
  Robert W. M. Greaves wrote to me (in July 2010--my [seemingly orig. AmE] backlog is huge!): I was somewhat surprised yesterday to be asked by an American woman (mid 70s from Montana) what more haste,…Sat, 7 Jan 2012, 05:02 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• zee and zed
  Now that the Term from Hell has finished, I'd like to get back to blogging on an at-least-weekly basis.  Toward(s) this end, I've stuck my cursor into the e-mailbox that holds the 'potential bloggabl…Wed, 28 Dec 2011, 06:14 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 2011 US-to-UK Word of the Year: FTW
  Many thanks to the intrepid readers who have nominated words and phrases for SbaCL Words of the Year this year. Yesterday, kettling was announced as the BrE-to-AmE WotY. Tonight's post does the other…Wed, 21 Dec 2011, 06:42 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 2011 UK-to-US Word of the Year: kettling
  This year, I'm spreading the SbaCL Words-of Year announcement into two posts -- partly to make up for hardly blogging at all this autumn and partly so that I can go to bed tonight.  So, starting with…Tue, 20 Dec 2011, 06:28 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

More

• Word of the Year 2011: Nominations, please!
  (A lightly edited version of last year's announcement for this year. There is one more week of the Term from Hell, after which there is the Marking from Hell, but I do hope to get back to regular blo…Sat, 3 Dec 2011, 05:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Untranslatables month: the summary
  Still buried deep beneath teaching. For your amusement, here are the 'untranslatables of the day' posted on Twitter last month, as promised in my last post. Where there's only a link, it's an express…Sat, 5 Nov 2011, 05:08 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Intralexy
  Some readers may be fed up with me for not blogging enough and seeming to spend all my time on Twitter. Those readers will probably not like this post, as it's about what I'm doing on Twitter. But pe…Sat, 1 Oct 2011, 01:29 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• both the two of us
  Jeremy H wrote me the following: I have noticed two usages which, in England, seem familiar only to journalists. One was in a headline in the Mail today: This port ain't big enough for the both of us…Fri, 16 Sep 2011, 05:53 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• shoes
  So, shoes. Hard to believe I've not blogged about them already!  First slide, please: [from UK shoe retailer Office] This, in BrE is a court shoe.  In AmE it would be a pump.  (Or call them high heel…Sat, 10 Sep 2011, 06:31 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• spunk and spunky
  It's our last full day in the US after a (BrE) holiday/(AmE) vacation of nearly a month.  I'd thought I'd catch up on blogging during this downtime, but I started to enjoy actually being on holiday/va…Wed, 17 Aug 2011, 09:28 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• nous, gumption, horse sense
  I probably unfairly privilege Ben Zimmer when he comes into my blog-suggestions inbox (which is to say, I'm about to cover a suggestion of his only 13 months after he suggested it). As a lexicographe…Wed, 3 Aug 2011, 10:16 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• bits and pieces
  I'll put the little bits before the big piece, just so they don't get lost. Here are a couple of things I've meant to tell you about and another waste of space on a certain journalist's take on Americ…Sat, 30 Jul 2011, 06:08 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• anti-Americanismism, part 2
  As promised, here's my reaction to the second half of the BBC's list of 'Your most noted Americanisms'. Since part 1, many others have weighed in on that BBC piece, including Stan Carey, Not From Roun…Wed, 27 Jul 2011, 04:36 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• anti-Americanismism, part 1
  In my last post, I refrained from saying much about the BBC Magazine piece by Matthew Engel on 'Why do some Americanisms annoy people?', pointing readers instead to Mark Liberman/Language Log's analy…Wed, 20 Jul 2011, 01:43 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• milk teeth and baby teeth
  Mark Liberman at Language Log has saved you from the rant that this weekend's post was to be. Oh, thank you, Mark! His post from earlier today does what needed to be done about journalist Matthew Enge…Sat, 16 Jul 2011, 02:38 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• making suggestions
  I'm at the conference of the International Pragmatics Association in Manchester (UK) this week, and I was interested to see that there's a poster in the poster session (which is already posted, though…Wed, 6 Jul 2011, 03:50 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• it's down/up to you
  Fellow American-academic-in-UK @PurlHussy suggested a Twitter Difference of the Day for me, and I thought: why tweet when I could blog AND tweet? (Um/Erm, because I should be marking/grading essays? H…Sun, 19 Jun 2011, 02:37 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• accent attitudes
  A while ago, I coined the term AVIC ('American Verbal Inferiority Complex'), to refer to an American tendency to find British English (or at least standard English English) superior to their own way o…Sat, 11 Jun 2011, 03:54 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Dialect success in books -- your help?
  Because of the cruelty that is 'marking season' (AmE prefers grading over marking), I am unable to do a 'real' post at the moment--but I'd like to follow up on the last one, which opened with I'm givi…Tue, 31 May 2011, 03:14 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Sentence First

• Annals of non-restrictive ‘that’
  You’ll seldom see that used with a comma to set off a non-restrictive clause. Normally which does this job. (Which is also fine in restrictive clauses, by the way, despite the pseudo-rule that forbids…Thu, 17 May 2012, 09:13 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• Mar dhea, moryah — a sceptical Irish interjection
  The Irish phrase mar dhea /mɑr’jæ/, /mɑrə’jæ/ “mor ya” is characteristic of Irish English speech. It’s a sceptical interjection used to cast doubt, dissent or derision (or all three) on whatever phras…Mon, 14 May 2012, 06:45 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• ‘Scary quotes’
  You’ve probably heard of scare quotes, well here’s scary quotes. This is an image from the BBC news website today. Note the scary phrases in quotation marks, aka inverted commas: Scary quotes commonly…Wed, 9 May 2012, 11:43 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• Most animals bark a little
  In The Hidden Life of Dogs, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas reports what she has learned about dog behaviour and psychology from watching different breeds in diverse environments and social s…Mon, 7 May 2012, 03:31 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• Link love: language (42)
  It’s been more than a month since my last linkfest. Time for another assortment of language-related reading material. (And, at the end, audiovisual.) Email and texting as “fingered speech”. Homophones…Thu, 3 May 2012, 08:01 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• As good (as) or better than faulty parallelism
  I read the following in a Discovery News article, and it gave me pause: Fussy readers will frown at the faulty parallelism of “as much, or more, than…”. After all, we don’t say as much than. Strictly…Tue, 1 May 2012, 02:01 PM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• Starved with the cold, and linguistic inflation
  I have two new posts up at Macmillan Dictionary Blog. The first, Starved with the cold, looks at how this expression (which has currency in Ireland) illustrates the phenomenon of semantic narrowing. T…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 04:19 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com

Motivated Grammar

• Can we all admit none of us know what we’re talking about?
  A writer complains about how people ought to know more about English, because they use hopefully as a sentential adverb. Unfortunately, knowing more about English would only make this usage more accep…Thu, 17 May 2012, 03:02 PM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Using “since”
  If you’re a native speaker of English, you are no doubt familiar with two meanings of since, which I’ll refer to as the “time” usage (1a) and the “reason” usage (1b): (1a) Bob Patel has owned and oper…Thu, 3 May 2012, 03:44 PM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Like setting a fire and wondering why it burns
  Jonathon Owen of Arrant Pedantry fame tweeted a link to this piece at the New York Daily News.* It’s a discussion of the online open letter that George Zimmerman put up, explaining his current situati…Thu, 19 Apr 2012, 11:59 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• On (American) mootness
  What is a moot point? I can’t think of a time I’ve seen it used to mean anything other than “previously decided” or “debatable only as an academic exercise”. And yet I’ve recently been encountering pe…Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 11:02 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Can descriptivism and prescriptivism coexist?
  The terms descriptivism and prescriptivism get thrown around a lot, and it seems most everyone says one of the words with a sort of dripping scorn that wouldn’t be out of place on the word “Communist”…Thu, 5 Apr 2012, 03:50 PM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• A nice and natural singular “they” from Community
  I’m a huge fan of NBC’s show Community, and over the last few months I’ve managed to get my entire family and core friends into it as well. That means going back and watching old episodes over and ove…Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 09:35 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Am I disinterested or uninterested in this debate?
  Summary: Far from losing an existing distinction, it seems that we're witnessing a distinction emerging. Uninterested is now restricted to an unconcerned meaning. Disinterested covers impartiality, bu…Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 11:12 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Metapost: The results of a busy fortnight
  It’s been a hectic couple of weeks, friends, and things are only going to speed up, because I’m currently sitting in the San Diego airport, waiting to jet off to the Big Apple for the CUNY conference…Tue, 13 Mar 2012, 10:17 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• National Grammar Day 2012: Ten More Grammar Myths, Debunked
  It’s National Grammar Day, so as usual, I’m taking the opportunity to look back on some of the grammar myths that have been debunked here over the last year. But before I get to that, let’s talk brief…Sun, 4 Mar 2012, 02:02 PM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• What’s the deal with “compose” and “comprise”?
  Compose and comprise seem like mischievous brothers who are opposites but masquerade as each other to fool their friends. They’re very similar — both handle parts-to-whole relationships — yet they’re…Thu, 23 Feb 2012, 09:48 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com

Phonetic Blog

• phoneme and allophone
  Here’s another Google n-gram (blog, 13 April), this one for the words phoneme and allophone. The OED’s first citation for phoneme in its modern sense is dated 1896. As the n-gram shows, though, it was…Fri, 4 May 2012, 01:56 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• you're 'avin' a larf
  Yesterday’s Sun newspaper reported Roy Hodgson’s appointment as manager for the England football team with this headline.That is, Bring on the Euros (the European football championships), supposedly a…Thu, 3 May 2012, 08:24 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• going awry
  Commenting on Monday’s blog, Mark Leavitt mentioned being misled by the spelling of the word epitome, which caused him to pronounce it “eppy-tohm”, i.e. ˈepɪtəʊm, instead of the usual ɪˈpɪtəmi. Greek…Wed, 2 May 2012, 02:17 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• Faustian
  A first-time correspondent asked Do you know of any English word, however obscure, in which in the spelling has the sound of aʊ as in the proper name Faust?After a little thought, and consulting Carn…Tue, 1 May 2012, 12:18 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• did I hear you aright?
  If you hear a word spoken, but then want to write it down, you may be in some uncertainty how to spell it. At least in English, that is. If we had a thoroughly transparent spelling system, you might t…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:08 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• diaspora
  For my sins (‘especially BrE’, according to LDOCE) I sit on the Steering Committee of the Government of Montserrat’s UK office in London. At yesterday’s meeting we had a presentation from someone intr…Sat, 28 Apr 2012, 11:42 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• teens
  Lipman asks about the possibilities of syllable-initial (love that word) t-glottalisation. Also, on television, I heard somebody say nʌɪnʔɪjn nineteen. Where does this occur? The speaker didn't sound…Thu, 26 Apr 2012, 06:16 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• mayoral elections
  London is in the throes of electing a new mayor. Reporting on the ITV news last night, the television presenter Alastair Stewart introduced an item on this topic as being about London’s meɪˈɔːrəl elec…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 01:12 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• perfect, but accented
  Writing about yesterday’s proceedings at the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking, the Guardian’s reporter Michael White describes the Russian owner of the London Evening Standard and the Independent, E…Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 01:07 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• a new weak form?
  Petr Rösel asks Do you still believe there’s no weak form for couldn’t (as you state in LPD)? To which my answer is yes, I do so believe.His query arises because he thinks he’s heard people saying kəd…Wed, 18 Apr 2012, 12:55 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com

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• guttural
  In the boys’ adventure stories I would read sixty years ago, the baddies often spoke in ‘guttural’ tones. Not only German and Arabic, but also Welsh, Hebrew, and Dutch are still occasionally referred…Tue, 17 Apr 2012, 12:27 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• postsibilant contraction
  Why did I find this newspaper headline (right), from last Wednesday’s Metro, awkward?As we all know, the English spelling apostrophe-s can represent not only the possessive ending but also the contrac…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 08:24 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• implosives and ejectives
  In modern phonetic terminology, an ‘implosive’ is a sound made with a glottalic ingressive airstream mechanism. That is, the airstream is initiated by sharply lowering the glottis, thereby creating ne…Fri, 13 Apr 2012, 02:07 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• booking hotels
  The travel booking website Expedia is running a series of ads in the British newspapers (and possibly elsewhere — I don’t know). The aim is to encourage us to book hotels enabling us to explore differ…Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 01:48 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• turned v
  Something of a cri de coeur today from Simon Gilman, who is about to take up a new post in Voice at a university drama department in the north of England. Forgive me if I quote part of his email at so…Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 12:52 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• BAAP miscellanea
  More reports from BAAP:• Calbert Graham (pictured) and Brechtje Post found that even at a low level of proficiency Japanese learners can generally assign English word stress appropriately. They can al…Tue, 10 Apr 2012, 12:31 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• Scottish affairs at BAAP
  Three presentations at the BAAP meeting concerned current developments relating to r in Scottish English. • Gerald Docherty et al reported that findings emerging from a project on Accent and Identity…Thu, 5 Apr 2012, 02:36 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• BAAP
  No sooner had I got back from Kyiv than I was off to Leeds for the biennial Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP).The presentations there were of very high quality. Eve…Wed, 4 Apr 2012, 01:40 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• macaronic signs
  And what, you ask, about the public use of English in Ukraine? Is there English-language public signage to be seen on the streets of Kyiv?Not much, compared with some other eastern European countries…Tue, 3 Apr 2012, 01:39 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• Kyiv
  It was fifteen years since the previous time I had visited Kyiv (i.e. Kiev, as we used to call it), so when I was there recently people kept asking me what differences I could see around me on this, m…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 01:16 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• English places
  Comments on yesterday’s blog addressed the fraught question of proper names in pronunciation dictionaries. I thought it might be useful if I tried to say what my policy was in LPD, at least as concern…Sat, 17 Mar 2012, 01:48 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• St Asaph
  The formal status of “City” has just been conferred by the Queen on the village/town/city (pop. 3,500 or thereabouts) of St Asaph in north Wales.On the ITV evening news yesterday the newsreader introd…Thu, 15 Mar 2012, 06:27 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• no (audible) release
  Plosives are traditionally analysed phonetically as having three stages or phases: (i) the “approach” phase, during which the primary articulators move into contact;(ii) the “hold” (or “compression”)…Wed, 14 Mar 2012, 09:00 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• else
  Kensuke Nanjo made an interesting suggestion about English tonicity.I've been wondering if it's safe to say the word else always takes the nucleus in such sentences as What else did you say?, Who else…Tue, 13 Mar 2012, 01:14 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• the Lindsey system
  Some of you will have read a thought-provoking blog posting by Geoff Lindsey (trading as English Speech Services), in which he argues for a radically revised transcription system for the vowels of the…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 08:05 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com

Natural Language Processing

• Making sense of Wikipedia categories
  Wikipedia's category hierarchy forms a graph. It's definitely cyclic (Category:Ethology belongs to Category:Behavior, which in turn belongs to Category:Ethology).At any rate, did you know that Chicago…Sat, 18 Feb 2012, 08:10 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• De-Authorship attribution
  I received the following (slightly edited) question from my colleague Jon Katz a few days ago:I was thinking about the problem of authorship attribution... Have people thought about the flip side of t…Sat, 11 Feb 2012, 08:16 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• It's that magical time of year...
  By which I mean NIPS, and the incumbent exhaustion of 14 hour days.  (P.s., if you're at NIPS, see the meta-comment I have at the end of this post, even if you skip the main body :P.)Today I went to t…Tue, 13 Dec 2011, 03:23 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• You need a job and I have $$$
  If you're an NLP or ML person and graduating in the next six months or so and are looking for a postdoc position with very very open goals, read on.  The position would be at UMD College Park, in the…Fri, 14 Oct 2011, 07:27 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Active learning: far from solved
  As Daniel Hsu and John Langford pointed out recently, there has been a lot of recent progress in active learning. This is to the point where I might actually be tempted to suggest some of these algori…Tue, 11 Oct 2011, 12:29 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• A technique for me is a task for you
  Originally in the context of Braque and now in the context of FUSE, I've thought a bit about understanding the role of techniques and tasks in scientific papers (admittedly, mostly NLP and ML, which I…Thu, 29 Sep 2011, 05:32 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Four months without blogs
  As you've noticed, I haven't posted in a while.  I've also not been reading blogs.  My unread number of posts is now 462.  Clearly I'm not going to go back and read all 462 posts that I missed.  I wil…Mon, 26 Sep 2011, 09:51 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Introducing Braque, your paper discovery friend
  (Shameless plug/advertisement follows.)Want to be informed of new interesting papers that show up online?Tired of trolling conference proceedings to find that one gem?  Want to make sure interested pa…Thu, 7 Jul 2011, 06:49 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• The conference(s) post: ACL and ICML
  I'm using ACL/ICML as an excuse to jumpstart my resumed, hopefully regular, posting.  The usual I didn't see/read everything applies to all of this.  My general feeling about ACL (which was echoed by…Wed, 6 Jul 2011, 05:40 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• CI Fellows Program, again
  Are you graduating and interested in doing a fun postdoc in your area of choosing on your project of choosing?  Apply to be a NSF CI Fellow!Sat, 7 May 2011, 01:47 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com

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• Google scholar "cited by" changed recently???
  Someone (can't remember who anymore, even though it was just a couple days ago!) pointed out to me that Google scholar seems to be doing weird things with citations.  In particular, it seems to think…Tue, 12 Apr 2011, 03:03 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Seeding, transduction, out-of-sample error and the Microsoft approach...
  My past master's student Adam Teichert (now at JHU) did some work on inducing part of speech taggers using typological information.  We wanted to compare the usefulness of using small amounts of lingu…Wed, 6 Apr 2011, 05:33 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Postdoc Position at CLIP (@UMD)
  Okay, now is why I take serious unfair advantage of having this blog.  We have a postdoc opening.  See the official ad below for details:A postdoc position is available in the Computational Linguistic…Thu, 10 Mar 2011, 10:58 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Some thoughts on supplementary materials
  Having the option of authors submitting supplementary materials is becoming popular in NLP/ML land.  NIPS was one of the first conferences I submit to that has allowed this; I think ACL allowed it thi…Tue, 8 Mar 2011, 05:47 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Grad school survey, revisited
  You may recall a while ago I ran a survey on where people applied to grad school. Obviously I've been sitting on these results for a while now, but I figured since it's that time of year when people a…Wed, 2 Mar 2011, 04:57 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• What are your plans between ACL and ICML?
  I'll tell you what they should be: attending the Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing, jointly sponsored by IMLS, ICML and ISCA, that I'm co-organizing with Dan Roth, Geoff…Mon, 28 Feb 2011, 02:10 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Parsing with Transformations
  I remember when I took my first real Syntax class, where by real I mean Chomskyan. It was at USC in Fall 2001, taught by Roumyana Pancheva. It was hard as hell but I loved it. However, as a computatio…Mon, 17 Jan 2011, 12:01 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• NIPS 2010 Retrospective
  Happy New Year and I know I've been silent but I've been busy.  But no teaching this semester (YAY!) so maybe you'll see more posts.At any rate, I'm really late to the table, but here are my comments…Thu, 13 Jan 2011, 09:06 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Crowdsourcing workshop (/tutorial) decisions
  Everyone at conferences (with multiple tracks) always complains that there are time slots with nothing interesting, and other time slots with too many interesting papers.  People have suggested crowds…Thu, 18 Nov 2010, 02:52 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Managing group papers
  Every time a major conference deadline (ACL, NIPS, EMNLP, ICML, etc...) comes around, we usually have a slew of papers (>=3, typically) that are getting prepared.  I would say on average 1 doesn't mak…Tue, 9 Nov 2010, 06:41 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Comparing Bounds
  This is something that's bothered me for quite a while, and I don't know of a good answer.  I used to think it was something that theory people didn't worry about, but then this exact issue was brough…Thu, 21 Oct 2010, 09:14 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• My Giant Reviewing Error
  I try to be a good reviewer, but like everything, reviewing is a learning process.  About five years ago, I was reviewing a journal paper and made an error.  I don't want to give up anonymity in this…Tue, 5 Oct 2010, 10:14 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• ACL / ICML Symposium?
  ACL 2011 ends on June 24, in Portland (that's a Friday). ICML 2011 begins on June 28, near Seattle (the following Tuesday). This is pretty much as close to a co-location as we're probably going to get…Fri, 24 Sep 2010, 06:25 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Very sad news....
  I heard earlier this morning that Fred Jelinek passed away last night.  Apparently he had been working during the day: a tenacious aspect of Fred that probably has a lot to do with his many successes.…Wed, 15 Sep 2010, 09:09 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• AIStats 2011 Call for Papers
  The full call, and some changes to the reviewing process. The submission deadline is Nov 1, and the conference is April 11-13, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Promises to be warm :).The changes the the r…Mon, 13 Sep 2010, 07:09 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com

Talking Brains

• POSTDOCTORAL POSITION - CENTER FOR LANGUAGE SCIENCE - The Pennsylvania State University
  POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONCENTER FOR LANGUAGE SCIENCEThe Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Center for Language Science (CLS) at The Pennsylvania State University (http://cls.psu.edu/) invites applications…Thu, 10 May 2012, 12:20 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Why are speech/language neuroscientists NOT concerned about bias in their behavioral measurements?
  Perceptual decisions involve two processes, perceptual analysis and response selection, both of which can affect typical behavioral measures such as percent correct or reaction time.  Crucially, respo…Wed, 9 May 2012, 02:42 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Two Positions - MARCS Institute, Univ of Western Sydney
  Ref 453/12: Career Development Fellowship in Multisensory Processing (Behaviour based methods), MARCS Institute MARCS Institute is a vibrant interdisciplinary research institute of the University of…Fri, 4 May 2012, 08:31 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Post-Doctoral Position in Spoken Language Comprehension in Aphasia
  Post-Doctoral Position in Spoken Language Comprehension in AphasiaApplications are invited for at least one post-doctoral position inthe Language and Cognitive Dynamics Laboratory directed by Dr. DanM…Tue, 17 Apr 2012, 11:14 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC) - Abstract submissions OPEN!
  NLC 2012 will be held in San Sebastian, Spain, Oct 25-27. Abstract submissions are now open.  Visit the Society for the Neurobiology of Language webpage and click the 'conference' tab for information…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 04:21 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• POSTDOCTORAL POSITION - MEG/EEG - National Institutes of Health, NIDCD Division of Intramural Research
  POSTDOCTORAL POSITION - MEG/EEG - National Institutes of Health, NIDCD Division of Intramural Research Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Language Section, NIDCD, National In…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 10:37 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Some low-level research from TB East
  One of the issues I have been thinking about for some time now concerns cortical oscillations and their potential role for speech processing. This topic continues to be debated vigorously. (At the Aud…Sun, 1 Apr 2012, 09:17 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Post doc position - Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab, U of Maryland
  Applications are solicited for a postdoctoral position in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language lab at the University of Maryland Department of Linguistics to conduct fMRI research on written and spo…Fri, 30 Mar 2012, 03:13 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How does visual speech modulate auditory speech perception?
  There are two current views.  One is that visual speech provides cues as to the motor gestures that generated the speech sounds and this motor information generates an efference copy that modulates au…Fri, 30 Mar 2012, 01:03 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New Rule #1
  Use of the following terms are now banned when used without qualification: phonological processing morphological processing syntactic processing Such terms need to be followed by phrases such as ___ i…Tue, 27 Mar 2012, 08:45 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Saskatchewan
   Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral Fellow, jointly supported by Dr. Ron Borowsky’s Cognitive Neuroscience of Language lab (Dept. of Psychology, College of Arts and Science), and the Depart…Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 06:04 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• On the relation between linguistic categories and neural systems - Guest post from Harvey Sussman
  Guest post from Harvey Sussman, Department of Linguistics, UT Austin. Don’t get me wrong, I love adjectives. They are among my favorite words, but I don’t think they should play a role in investigatio…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:55 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Carl Wernicke reflecting on science
  I came across this quote that I think reveals something about Wernicke's thoughtful and careful approach to science and in particular his penchant for questioning dogma.  It is from roughly two decade…Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 12:00 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Dept of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Postdoctoral position in language
  Postdoctoral Position in Language.  Faculty in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are soliciting applications for a post…Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 01:23 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Senior jobs: RESEARCH SENIOR FACULTY POSITIONS at the BCBL- San Sebastián
    RESEARCH SENIOR FACULTY POSITIONS at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San…Fri, 17 Feb 2012, 04:47 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• RESEARCH FACULTY POSITIONS at the BCBL- San Sebastián
    RESEARCH FACULTY POSITIONS at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebast…Fri, 17 Feb 2012, 04:46 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• RA Position: Georgetown Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab
  The Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab within Georgetown University’s Center for Aphasia Research and Rehabilitation, directed by Rhonda Friedman, Ph.D., is seeking a full-time research assistant to suppo…Fri, 17 Feb 2012, 04:43 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• RA/Lab Manager Job Opportunity at NYU
   Applications are invited for a an RA/Lab Manager (NYU title: “junior research scientist”) position in an NIH-funded research project in the Acoustic Phonetics and Perception Lab (http://homepages.nyu…Sun, 5 Feb 2012, 09:55 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• University of Bristol job
  Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader (two posts) (vacancy ref. 16924) The School of Experimental Psychology is seeking candidates for two Lectureship or Senior Lectureship/Readership positions within its C…Sun, 5 Feb 2012, 09:53 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New Journal: "Language and Cognition"
  From David Kemmerer: New Journal:  Language and Cognition I would like to bring to everyone's attention the existence of a relatively new journal called Language and Cognition: http://www.languageandc…Thu, 2 Feb 2012, 08:08 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What can we learn from the processing of syntactic violations?
  There is an interesting discussion brewing in the comments of one of my previous posts that I think is worthy of the front page.  It was sparked by a question from Jeroen van Baar: Greg, I think one o…Fri, 20 Jan 2012, 09:22 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMITATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SPEECH (ISICS 2012) Aix-en-Provence, France, 3-5 September 2012
  INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMITATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SPEECH (ISICS 2012) Aix-en-Provence, France, 3-5 September 2012   First call for communications mail: isics2012@lpl-aix.fr website: spim.risc.c…Thu, 5 Jan 2012, 11:40 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Computational neuroanatomy of speech production
  For your Happy New Year reading enjoyment, let me point you to my just (online) published synthesis of computational, psycholinguistic, and neuroanatomic research on speech production: Hickok, G. (201…Thu, 5 Jan 2012, 10:25 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Doctoral position in General Linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
  The Emmy Noether Research Group ''Neurolinguistic Foundations of Information Structure'' (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) headed by Petra Schumacher is seeking to fill the position of…Thu, 15 Dec 2011, 01:16 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• open-rank faculty position in Cognitive Neuroscience at Florida International University in Miami, FL
  Position Title: Cognitive Neuroscience (Open-rank). We seek an outstanding researcher with expertise in fMRI, EEG, or TMS methodologies. Applicants with interest in developmental or adult cognitive ne…Mon, 12 Dec 2011, 03:45 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Women Learning Thai

• Please Vote: Top 100 Language Learning Blogs 2012
  Please vote for the Top 100 Language Learning Blogs of 2012… Each year the Top 100 Language Learning international competition put on by bab.la and Lexiophiles has gradually gotten tougher. But this y…Tue, 15 May 2012, 09:08 AM // feeds2.feedburner.com
• More Learn Thai by Speaking Your Language
  Learn Thai by Speaking Your Language… Over a decade ago I learned Thai by using a method called Speak Your Language. I wrote a post on what Speak Your Language is, but to summarize: I learned to speak…Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:26 PM // feeds2.feedburner.com
• Thai Chili Pepper Scale: A Spicy Secret to Ordering Thai Food
  Thai chili scale: A spicy secret to ordering Thai food… I’ve been eating Thai food for like a gazillion years now and while I can order เผ็ดเผ็ด /pèt-pèt/ just fine, what arrives is almost never “up t…Wed, 9 May 2012, 05:30 PM // feeds2.feedburner.com
• Thai Language School Review: UTL Unity Thai Language School
  Thai Language School Review: UTL Unity Thai Language School… Review: UTL Unity Thai Language School Website: utl-school.com Address: 18th floor Times Square Building, 246 Sukhumvit Rd, Khlongtoey, Khl…Mon, 7 May 2012, 05:00 PM // feeds2.feedburner.com

Polish Blog

• Fasolka po bretońsku
  Although this recipe is not actually a Polish one, it  is an extremely popular dish in Poland. Also, typical non-polish version have different ingredients. Ingredients: 2 cups white, dry kidney beans…Sat, 19 May 2012, 01:43 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie – 150 lat!
  The National Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie) starts celebrating its 150th anniversary this May. The anniversary celebrations begin May 17-20 with the reopening of refurbished interiors,…Thu, 17 May 2012, 03:29 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What is on the menu?
  Dining out in Poland can be a great experience. All the wonderful, tasty food, so different than food in US… Looking at the menu in different Polish restaurants may be a little confusing sometimes. So…Wed, 16 May 2012, 04:55 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Joke? Police? Safety?
  I was reading Polish news and came across this really strange thing… Residents of Zachodnio-Pomorskie were left rubbing their eyes in amazement this week when they were confronted with the peculiar si…Mon, 14 May 2012, 07:17 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Mother’s Day
  Ok, so today is mother’s day in USA! Happy mother’s day to all of wonderful mama’s! Mother’s Day (Dzień Matki) in Poland is not until May 26th, but I thought I will give you an idea for different wish…Sun, 13 May 2012, 08:40 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

Talk to me in Korean

• TTMIK Talk – Ice cream
  Do you like ice cream? In this TTMIK Talk, 효진, 경은 and 석진 talked about what kind of ice cream they like. English/Korean subtitles are available for this video. (Check the CC button.) Be sure to let us…Fri, 18 May 2012, 04:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Level 8 Lesson 11 / Sentence Building Drill 12
  안녕하세요! This is the Sentence Building Drill (문장 만들기 연습) lesson! In this series, we will look at how you can expand your Korean sentence building skills by adding or replacing certain words in given sen…Thu, 17 May 2012, 03:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Iyagi #110 / 굴욕적인 기억 / Embarrassing memories / Natural talk in 100% Korean
  What is your most embarrassing memory/moment? Do you still feel embarrassed thinking about it? In this Iyagi Episode, 윤아 and 석진 talk about their embarrassing memories. Enjoy!Mon, 14 May 2012, 10:32 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Level 8 Lesson 10 – Advanced Idiomatic Expressions – 귀 (ear)
  In this lesson, we will be talking more about the use of the word 귀 (ear) in Korean idioms. If you study with this series, you will learn many idiomatic expressions that are based upon a certain Korea…Sun, 13 May 2012, 10:00 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• TTMIK Talk – University Life
  Listen to Seokjin, Hyojin and our guest Hye-yeon talk about university life in Korea. English and Korean subtitles available (check the CC button).Thu, 10 May 2012, 11:55 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Korean Vocabulary Starting with “ㅅ”
  What words in Korean start with the consonant “ㅅ”? Here are some of them! Can you think of some more? ^^ 삼각대 [sam-gak-dae] = tripod 사탕 [sa-tang] = candy 서명 [seo-myeong] = signature 손목시계 [son-mok-si-gy…Wed, 9 May 2012, 06:08 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Iyagi #109 / 건축 이야기 / Architecture / Natural talk in 100% Korean
  Are you interested in architecture? If so, how did you become interested in architecture? In this 이야기, 경화 and 석진 talked about architecture. Listen in and find out what they talked about, and if you ha…Tue, 8 May 2012, 02:47 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Level 8 Lesson 9 / Past Tense (Various Types) / 과거시제 총정리
  We’ve compiled some of the various types of Korean past tense structures into one lesson! Yay! Some of the structures we’ve already covered in our previous lessons, so If you haven’t fully learned how…Mon, 7 May 2012, 01:47 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Korean Drama Phrases #14 – 잠깐 나갔다 올게
  Do you enjoy watching Korean dramas? Even though watching TV dramas can be too much fun for you to focus on learning something, studying with phrases used frequently in Korean dramas can be very usefu…Fri, 4 May 2012, 03:33 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How to play 묵찌빠 [muk-jji-ppa] (a variation of Rock, Paper, Scissors)
  Have you heard of the game called “묵찌빠 [muk-jji-ppa]“? It’s a variation of the Rock, Paper, Scissors (가위 바위 보) game. Kyung-hwa explains how to play 묵찌빠. Be sure to practice it with your friends or fam…Thu, 3 May 2012, 03:43 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

Education Week

• Neb. Schools Spent Over $450,000 Lobbying in 2011, Report Finds
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• New NYC group to challenge Bloomberg on education
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• Bully victim's poem prompts healing after 25 years
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• Awards honor teens in science competition
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• Education group backs McKenna for governor
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• Child Literacy Overhaul Now Law in Colorado
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• Unvaccinated kids booted from Pa. classrooms
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• Oregon Bans Native American Mascots in Schools
  Fri, 18 May 2012, 05:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Emergency law considered in Quebec student protest
  Fri, 18 May 2012, 05:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• In Philadelphia, Few Students Are on the Path to College
  A stratified system means long odds for students in Philadelphia's neighborhood high schools hoping to get a college education. Fri, 18 May 2012, 04:43 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Ed secretary questions Fla. law on tutoring
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 12:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ohio school official charged in $470,000 scheme
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 12:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• AP Interview: Haslam mulls expansion of pre-K
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 12:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Report notes Colorado schools near oil, gas wells
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 12:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Study: Millions of students chronically absent
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 10:22 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Mandarin Chinese the norm at Bellaire school
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 10:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Chicago Plans 60 More Charters in 5 Years
  The plan would increase the share of privately run charters to about a quarter of all schools in the district. Thu, 17 May 2012, 06:34 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• N.Y. School Budgets Within Tax Cap Fare Better
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 05:09 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Gov. Brewer signs bill expanding school choices
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 05:08 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ohio schools vote down competitive balance bylaw
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 05:08 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ind. school revokes suspensions over prank
  Thu, 17 May 2012, 05:08 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Incoming College Board Head Wants SAT to Reflect Common Core
  David Coleman, a lead writer of the common standards whose nonprofit is producing curriculum materials, will take over as president of the organization on Oct. 15. Wed, 16 May 2012, 01:46 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Gov. Brewer signs bill expanding school choices
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 12:21 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• More college-bound Hawaii public school graduates
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 12:21 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Minn. efforts to stem teen pregnancy effective
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 12:21 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Clark County schools planning 1,015 pink slips
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 12:20 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Chile gov't won't cede to free education demands
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 09:49 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Romania tries again to find an education minister
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 09:47 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• School Plan Widely Misunderstood, Philadelphia Officials Say
  Officials Tuesday said there were widespread misunderstandings about a plan to revamp the district. Wed, 16 May 2012, 06:51 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Mother in Wash school shooting makes plea deal
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Calif. lawsuit attacks teacher employment rules
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Michigan Gov. Signs Cyber School Measure Into Law
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Student, brother have perfect attendance, K-12
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Mo. lawmakers approve expanding charter schools
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 05:11 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Denver schools investigating 2011 CSAP results
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 05:11 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• With Entire Texas Board Up for Grabs, So Too Are Science Standards
  Wed, 16 May 2012, 05:11 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Statistics Agency to Review 'Best High Schools' Data
  The National Center for Education Statistics is rechecking data on about 5,000 high schools after faulty information from the federal agency led to erroneous rankings for the high schools on U.S. News…Wed, 16 May 2012, 04:41 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fla. Schools Won't Be Held Accountable This Year for Low Writing Test Scores
  Florida will hold public schools harmless from this year's dramatic drop in FCAT writing scores. Tue, 15 May 2012, 12:36 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Hawaii Keeps Race to Top Grant, 'High Risk' Status
  Federal officials balk at pulling the $75 million award, but a deal on teacher evaluations remains elusive. Tue, 15 May 2012, 12:26 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Connecticut Education Overhaul Is Approved
  Connecticut legislators have approved major changes to the state's public education system. Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:36 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Universities Generate Ideas, Support for K-12 Startup Companies
  As technology brings venture capital and startup culture into K-12 education, ideas hatched in academia are making their way into the marketplace. Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:32 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Calif. K-12 Funding, Governance Still Troubled, Report Says
  Five years after a blue-ribbon group urged major changes, fundamental problems remain, a followup report contents. Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:26 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fla. board lowers FCAT writing test passing score
  Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:25 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Calif. lawsuit attacks teacher employment rules
  Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:25 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Calif. Aims to Go Own Way in NCLB Waiver Bid
  The state board approves a waiver request that departs from the Education Department’s model. Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:14 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Latest Round of NCLB Waiver Bids Critiqued
  The Education Department presses states seeking NCLB flexibility for more-ambitious goals in their applications. Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Gifted Programs Aim to Regain Budget Toehold
  But efforts to restore federal funds for a long-running gifted education program lack Obama administration support. Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Studies on Multitasking Highlight Value of Self-Control
  Researchers say the ability to resist the temptation to multitask may be a bellwether of students' academic success. Tue, 15 May 2012, 10:40 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Joplin Poised to Rebuild Tornado-Damaged Schools
  A year after a tornado destroyed six of its schools, a Missouri district is building schools that match its new vision for education. Tue, 15 May 2012, 10:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Push Back High School Start Times
  The high school day should start later for public health and learning reasons, Terra Ziporyn Snider says. Tue, 15 May 2012, 09:25 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The Legal Cost of Improper Internet Censorship
  Schools cannot block access to nonpornographic websites that deal with homosexuality, the ACLU's Joshua Block writes. Tue, 15 May 2012, 09:18 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL
  But state and district special education directors say there are still widespread misperceptions about the universal design for learning concept. Tue, 15 May 2012, 07:52 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• S.C. Gov. Signs Law Expanding Charter Schools
  Tue, 15 May 2012, 05:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ky. same-sex couple, school at odds over prom
  Tue, 15 May 2012, 05:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Lawmaker blasts Title IX, Brandi Chastain winces
  Tue, 15 May 2012, 05:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The Ed.D. Dilemma
  Harvard's move to a Ph.D. in education holds implications for the field, Ted Purinton writes. Tue, 15 May 2012, 04:48 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Two Houston Charter Schools Face State Investigations
  The founders of two Houston charter schools have prospered while putting their relatives on the payroll and doing business with their own private companies at taxpayers' expense. Mon, 14 May 2012, 01:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Feds: Wis. proposal for education waiver lacking
  Mon, 14 May 2012, 12:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ohio School District has Teens Watch 'Bully' Film
  Mon, 14 May 2012, 12:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Dramatic drop in preliminary FCAT writing scores
  Mon, 14 May 2012, 12:21 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• States Lack Capacity for Reform
  Michael D. Usdan and Arthur D. Sheekey write that state education agencies are ill-equipped to handle reform, but the process of reauthorizing the ESEA could change that. Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:16 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New Advocacy Groups Shaking Up Education Field
  The organizations' influence over policy and politics appears to be growing, especially at the state and local levels. Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Foundation Cash Boosts Education Advocacy Groups
  Grants to prominent K-12 groups often helps underwrite activities touching on sensitive areas of education policy. Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New K-12 Advocacy Groups Wield State-Level Clout
  New organizations are making their impact felt in statehouses on issues such as teacher evaluation and charter schools. Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Mitt Romney's 'hijinks' seen as bullying today
  Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• WA parents refuse to let their 550 kids take MAPS
  Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Colorado School Campaigning Methods Questioned
  Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NJ to no longer ask 3rd-graders to reveal a secret
  Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NYC schools chief sits as union head blasts mayor
  Mon, 14 May 2012, 05:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NJ test asks 3rd graders to reveal a secret
  Fri, 11 May 2012, 10:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fulton schools become Ga.'s largest charter system
  Fri, 11 May 2012, 09:59 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• More schools turn to sports fees as budgets shrink
  Fri, 11 May 2012, 09:59 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Public Gets Glimpse of Science Standards
  An ambitious effort to refocus K-12 science education across the nation enters a new phase today with the release of the first public draft of voluntary, next generation standards in the subject. Fri, 11 May 2012, 08:51 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Mass. Students Can Have Their Cake and Sell It, Too
  “We’re liberating bake sales,” Senate President Therese Murray proclaimed , “It’s so silly. Imagine banning bake sales? It’s bureaucracy gone a little crazy.” Fri, 11 May 2012, 07:10 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Detroit mayor names school fixer as finance chief
  Fri, 11 May 2012, 04:48 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• California to apply for waiver to US education law
  Fri, 11 May 2012, 04:48 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Massachusetts backs off school bake sale ban
  Fri, 11 May 2012, 04:48 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• House panel kills Alabama charter school bill
  Fri, 11 May 2012, 04:48 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Pollak, US judge who helped in civil rights, dies
  Fri, 11 May 2012, 04:48 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Groups Offer Ways for Feds to Improve Student Well-Being
  Recommendations include appointing new federal staff members to shepherd school health efforts and undoing Medicaid red tape so schools can be reimbursed for health services. Fri, 11 May 2012, 04:22 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

Higher EdWatch

• Capped Variable Interest Rate Proposal Comes with a Hefty Price Tag
  While Congress has debated extending the 3.4 percent interest rate on Subsidized Stafford loans issued this year to undergraduates, advocacy groups are gearing up for a debate on longer-term reforms.…Fri, 11 May 2012, 06:20 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• No-Cost Solution to Student Loan Interest Rates Hidden in Plain Sight
  While Congress has debated extending the 3.4 percent interest rate on Subsidized Stafford loans issued this year to undergraduates, advocacy groups are gearing up for a debate on longer-term reforms.…Tue, 8 May 2012, 12:32 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Subsidized Stafford Student Loans are Already Interest-Free for the Unemployed
  This post was first published as a response to a prompt on the National Journal’s Education Experts Blog on May 1, 2012. The prompt and responses from other experts can be viewed on the National Journ…Thu, 3 May 2012, 12:15 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• More Transparency Needed for Veterans Education Benefit Programs
  This was originally posted on Higher Ed Watch's sister blog, Ed Money Watch.Every year the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) directs a huge chunk of federal spending to higher education for veterans…Thu, 3 May 2012, 10:22 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• The 'Small' Numbers on the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike
  Yes, the interest rate on some federal student loans is set to double this July from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent unless Congress acts. And every news story and sound bite on the issue tells us the big…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 10:39 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Substantial Obstacles Exist to Implementing New Community College Graduation Rate Measures
  The U.S. Department of Education this month announced that it has developed a preliminary plan to increase reporting requirements for graduation rates at colleges and universities. The “Action Plan fo…Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 01:28 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• New Legislation Would Attempt to Protect Students from Unnecessary Debt
  We have written plenty here at Higher Ed Watch about federal student loan programs. But increasingly, students are borrowing from private lenders to fund their educations, often at less-favorable term…Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 10:59 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Obama Budget Punts on Tough Choices for Pell Grants
  Many student aid advocates and pundits have panned the House Budget Committee’s loosely outlined funding plan for Pell Grants. The plan was part of the fiscal year 2013 budget resolution (aka the “Rya…Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 01:20 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• House Democrats’ Data on Student Loan Interest Rates Misrepresent the Problem
  Democrats on the House Education and the Workforce Committee this week released a document detailing the increased costs to borrowers if interest rates on Subsidized Stafford loans increase from 3.4 t…Fri, 6 Apr 2012, 09:00 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Unpacking Pell Grant Reforms in the House-Passed (“Ryan”) Budget
  As we wrote last week, congressional budget resolutions are always light on details. At best, lawmakers include vague descriptions of policies that Congress could enact to meet spending goals. That’s…Thu, 5 Apr 2012, 01:31 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net

Change.org/Education

• Student loans got you down? Start a petition.
  You’re not alone. Since 1999, student debt has increased by 511%, eclipsed credit card debt, and will soon exceed $1 Trillion. But intense lobbying has stripped away basic consumer rights and bankrupt…Tue, 17 Jan 2012, 10:02 AM // education.change.org
• How You Can Act Against Hate At Cal State University San Marcos
  [Editor's Note: Guest blogger Kit-Bacon Gressitt and her group created the Change.org petition Act Against Hate at Cal State University San Marcos. You can find more of her writing at http://www.excus…Thu, 3 Nov 2011, 02:58 AM // education.change.org
• Start a petition to ask your school district to move to a community bank
  Right now, schools across the country are facing budget shortfalls caused by the foreclosure crisis.  As kids and families lose their homes and move away, schools lose their students and the funding g…Mon, 31 Oct 2011, 04:41 AM // education.change.org
• VICTORY! Contact Lens Company Apologizes For Exploiting Fear of Bullying
  Bullying and harassment at school is a serious threat that directly affects the health and well being of youth across the country. Eye care company 1800AnyLens.Com had been using the fear of bullying…Mon, 12 Sep 2011, 06:34 AM // education.change.org
• Victory! Kelley Williams-Bolar Granted Clemency By Ohio Gov. John Kasich
  Victory! Gov. John Kasich today reduced the charges against Kelley Williams-Bolar, a single African-American mother jailed and convicted of a felony earlier this year for enrolling her children in a s…Wed, 7 Sep 2011, 04:46 AM // education.change.org
• Play is Under Attack in Our Schools: 7 Absurd Stories That Say It All
  This guest post comes from Darell Hammond, CEO of KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit dedicated to saving play for America's children. This week, our Congress will be returning from their August recess--a y…Tue, 6 Sep 2011, 07:14 AM // education.change.org
• How 60 Seconds Of Your Day Today Could Help Kelley Williams-Bolar
  Earlier this year, Kelley Williams-Bolar spent 9 days in jail because she sent her kids to a safer school district. Now, her future is in the hands of Ohio Governor John Kasich. More than 180,000 Chan…Tue, 6 Sep 2011, 04:17 AM // education.change.org
• Victory! Scholastic Agrees To Limit Corporate-Funded Teaching Materials
  In response to pressure from parents, educators and grassroots advocates, Scholastic Inc. will drastically limit its practice of partnering with corporations to produce classroom material, the company…Mon, 1 Aug 2011, 03:27 AM // education.change.org
• Former Teenage Mom Launches Online Campaign to Reinstate Black Teen Mom Valedictorian
  Teen mothers are expected to fail. Just ask Bee Lavender, who, after she became pregnant at 18, remembers a swift and merciless change in the way most people treated her: It was a profound shock to go…Wed, 27 Jul 2011, 05:07 AM // education.change.org
• GLSEN Leader: MN District's Gag Policy Has "Chilling Effect" On LGBT Students
  The country's leading safe schools organization on Friday criticized a neutrality policy at Minnesota's largest school district that prevents faculty from addressing LGBT issues with students. Policie…Mon, 25 Jul 2011, 04:18 AM // education.change.org

TESOL Blog

• India's Outcasts Put Faith in English
  India: Dalits are building a temple in honour of a language they believe can liberate them from the oppressions of the caste system. Read moreTue, 8 Feb 2011, 08:42 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• Language Testing Rules Criticized as Unrealistic
  Tennessee: Shuler Pelham spent Wednesday morning trying to explain to a 15-year-old Mexican boy why he should come to school. The teen arrived in Nashville in March, attended one week at Overton High…Tue, 8 Feb 2011, 08:40 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• U.S. Plan to Replace Principals Hits Snag: Who Will Step In?
  United States: The aggressive $4 billion program begun by the Obama administration in 2009 to radically transform the country’s worst schools included, as its centerpiece, a plan to install new princi…Tue, 8 Feb 2011, 08:09 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• Update on ESL: An Interview With TESOL Executive Director Rosa Aronson
  Recently, TESOL Executive Director Rosa Aronson spoke to Education Talk Radio's Larry Jacobs about the state of K-12 English language teaching in the United States and the upcoming TESOL Convention in…Wed, 2 Feb 2011, 10:43 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• Business English Speakers Can Still Be Divided By a Common Language
  United States: Business is the most popular subject for international students in the United States. At last count, twenty-one percent of foreign students at American colleges and universities were st…Wed, 2 Feb 2011, 10:36 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• GOP Governors Take Aim at Teacher Tenure
  United States: Seizing on a national anxiety over poor student performance, many governors are taking aim at a bedrock tradition of public schools: teacher tenure. Read moreWed, 2 Feb 2011, 08:49 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• Education Funders Group Calls for ELLs to Be High Priority
  United States: If philanthropists want to see education improve in this country, they need to focus more on the needs of English-language learners, an influential group of funders says in a report rel…Wed, 2 Feb 2011, 08:47 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• Foreign Students Focus on Business, Engineering Studies in US Schools
  United States: U.S. colleges and universities have seen a tremendous increase in international students studying business and engineering in recent years. Read moreTue, 25 Jan 2011, 01:51 PM // blogs.tesol.org
• American Voices, Far From Home
  Georgia: The former Soviet republic of Georgia is trying to improve the quality of the English instruction in its classrooms with a program that has hired 1,000 people from the United States, Canada a…Tue, 25 Jan 2011, 01:45 PM // blogs.tesol.org
• Still Fighting Russia, This Time With Words
  Tblisi, Georgia: The new teacher who arrived recently at School No. 161 could barely speak a word of the Georgian language, knew little about local customs and easily got lost in the crazy-quilt stree…Tue, 25 Jan 2011, 01:43 PM // blogs.tesol.org

More

• Education Secretary Launches United States Education Dashboard
  United States: The U.S. Department of Education today launched a new website that provides convenient and transparent access to key national and state education data, highlighting the progress being m…Tue, 25 Jan 2011, 01:39 PM // blogs.tesol.org
• Sudan Needs English to Build Bridges Between North and South
  Sudan: Whether the country decides to split or not it will need a neutral language to continue the peace process and to speak to the rest of the world. Read moreWed, 19 Jan 2011, 08:30 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• My Students Help Assess My Teaching
  United States: Today is an opportunity for you to challenge and push me to become a better teacher, and a time for you to challenge and push yourselves to be better learners. So I began my ninth-grade…Wed, 19 Jan 2011, 08:27 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• Latino Applications Surge at U. of California
  United States: If current trends continue, Latino students will soon make up a plurality of applicants to the University of California, surpassing Asian-American and white students within a few years.…Wed, 19 Jan 2011, 08:24 AM // blogs.tesol.org
• The Ideas Shaping a New India
  India: This new year will bring the 20th anniversary of that shimmering, amorphous thing, the new India. Read moreWed, 19 Jan 2011, 08:13 AM // blogs.tesol.org

Learning the Language

• Poll: Latinos Put Education Over Immigration in 2012 Campaign
  A new survey of likely voters in five Latino-heavy states shows that education ranks second only to job creation and the economy as the most important issue for Latinos in the 2012 election cycle.Tue, 15 May 2012, 12:50 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Study: Most ELLs Are in Districts That Fall Short of Federal Goals
  CORRECTION AND UPDATE: The Ed. Dept. wants to make clear that this report is not the biennial update to Congress mandated by federal law. This report was independently commissioned by the department.…Fri, 11 May 2012, 11:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Census: Foreign-Born Population Reaches Record High
  Roughly 13 percent of the U.S. population is foreign born.Thu, 10 May 2012, 11:36 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Grim NAEP Science Results for English Learners
  English learners gained no ground in science achievement in the 2011 Nation's Report Card.Thu, 10 May 2012, 07:50 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Puerto Rico's Governor Pushes for Fully Bilingual Citizenry
  Gov. Luis Fortuno wants English to become the primary language of instruction in the U.S. territory's public schools.Tue, 8 May 2012, 01:52 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Justice Dept to Ala.: Immigration Law Drove Latinos From Schools
  Asst. Attorney General Thomas Perez issues stern letter to Alabama's schools chief about negative effects of the state's tough immigration law.Fri, 4 May 2012, 11:43 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Preschool Provides Major Advantages to English-Learners, Study Says
  The Public Policy Institute of California finds that linguistically isolated four-year-olds who attend a preschool program for one year before kindergarten develop stronger early reading skills than t…Wed, 2 May 2012, 12:50 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Study: The Sharper Minds of Bilinguals
  New research provides biological evidence that bilingual brains are more finely tuned than monolingual ones.Tue, 1 May 2012, 08:50 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• A Case for Training All Teachers to Meet Needs of ELLs
  A new paper from the Center for American Progress recommends that all teachers need to be adequately prepared to teach English-learners.Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 06:50 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Study: Pediatric Early Literacy Effort a Boon to English Learners
  A non profit program that provides books and uses doctors to advise at-risk families on the importance of reading with children is showing good results for young Latinos.Fri, 27 Apr 2012, 07:35 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

More

• Study: More Educated the Mothers = Better Outcome for ELLs
  A new analysis from the National Center for Education Statistics points to poverty, race and ethnicity, and mothers' education levels as playing a bigger role in outcomes for language-minority student…Thu, 26 Apr 2012, 08:50 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• AL Educators Anxious as AZ Immigration Law Goes Before High Court
  Educators in Foley, Ala., say the Supreme Court ruling in the Arizona case will have direct impact on the legal fate of the controversial immigration law that was passed in their state last year.Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 06:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Federal Officials Reach Final Agreement on Services for ELLs in Boston
  Boston Public Schools continue to improve in their services for English-language learners.Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 08:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Illinois' Jump Start With ELLs Provides Lesson for Other States
  The state is the first in the nation to require that ELL services be provided to children in state-funded prekindergarten.Fri, 13 Apr 2012, 07:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Stanford Project on Common Standards and English-Learners Goes Live
  The team of English-language learner experts assembled by Stanford University education professor Kenji Hakuta to create resources for teaching the common-core standards to ELLs launched its Understan…Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 01:03 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Teaching English

• ELTons 2012 - Blog by Luke Meddings
  Starting on the 16th May, Luke Meddings, 2010 ELTons winner and co-author of 'Teaching Unplugged: Dogme in English Language Teaching', will be blogging all about the ELTons in the run up to the award…Tue, 15 May 2012, 02:35 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Writers wanted for on-line ELT materials
  Oxford University Press are looking for new writers for on-line and digital materials for adult learners.read moreTue, 15 May 2012, 01:55 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Vote for the 2012 Language Learner Literature Awards
  Every year, the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English. From the fifteen finalists chosen by the judges, the ERF will select one winner i…Tue, 15 May 2012, 01:26 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Writing: mini things
  Sometimes when we ask students to write a composition they spend very little time at the important editing stage. In this lesson students will do a couple of ‘short writing’ activities with the focus…Wed, 9 May 2012, 07:57 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Featured blog of the month for April
  Our latest featured blog is Fiona Mauchline's - 'macappella'.read moreThu, 3 May 2012, 12:44 PM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Call for Papers for TESOL-Italy's 2012 National Convention
  TESOL-Italy's 37th  National Convention will take place on November 16–17, 2012 in Rome at Polo Didattico, Piazza Oderico da Pordenone, 3.read moreTue, 1 May 2012, 10:14 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Pairwork: tai chi classes
  This is a simple pairwork activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in the present simple question form – What does he/she do on…?, days of the week, times and leisure activ…Tue, 1 May 2012, 12:32 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• The fastest and the slowest
  In this lesson students practise speaking, reading and writing while talking about the fastest and slowest animals. The grammar focus is comparatives and superlatives with quantifiers. Students also…Tue, 1 May 2012, 12:29 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Graphic Organisers
  Visual representations of information are by no means an innovation in education. The use of graphs and charts to represent statistical information and time-lines showing the sequence of historical e…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 04:18 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Conversation lesson - Music
  During this skills lesson you might want to use background music where facilities allow. You will also need some samples of music, not necessarily just in English, but a variety of different genres r…Wed, 25 Apr 2012, 04:08 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk

The Freire Project

• Obasi
  Wed, 9 May 2012, 01:16 PM // freireproject.org
• Our Latest Documentary Paulo Freire- Seeing Through Paulo's Glasses: Political Clarity, Courage and Humility
  Click here or below to view our latest documentary on Paulo Freire, Seing Through Paulo's Glasses: Political Clarity, Courange and Humility. Produced and directed by Shirley Steinberg, and Giuliana Cu…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:26 PM // freireproject.org
• Politics and Education Don't Mix (The Atlantic)
   I have the complete and original piece published at The Atlantic on my blog: Politics and Education Don't Mix (The Atlantic)   Sun, 29 Apr 2012, 05:47 AM // freireproject.org
• WEBMASTER NEEDED
   Hi everyone We are looking for help with the website. This involves monthly maintenance updates and approving users. If anyone is interested in volunteering as a webmaster please email Giuliana at gc…Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 08:37 AM // freireproject.org
• Podcast Leaderful Schools
   Volume 5 Episode12: Dr. Paul Thomas: Educating the OthersApril 19, 2012 9:00 PM I mention Joe Kincheloe's key role in my scholarship... Sun, 22 Apr 2012, 05:56 AM // freireproject.org
• Call for Book Chapters: E-learning
  E-learning [Call for Book Chapters] Editors Dr Petar Jandric, Senior Lecturer, Polytechnic of Zagreb, Croatia Prof Damir Boras, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia…Wed, 18 Apr 2012, 03:41 AM // freireproject.org
• Highlights from Vancouver educational research conference - #AERA2012
  I am sitting in the Vancouver airport getting ready to board my flight back to the U.S. and wanted to share some reflections on an amazing and rejuvenating conference before I get swept back into the…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 04:55 PM // freireproject.org
• Book Signing: Critical Qualitative Research Reader
  Wed, 14 Mar 2012, 06:31 AM // freireproject.org
• Taboo: Positions Available
  Taboo:  The Journal of Culture and Education is looking for a Co-editor (with Shirley Steinberg), an Assistant Editor, and a Managing Editor. As you may know, the journal is almost 15 years old, and…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 07:48 AM // freireproject.org
• Werklund Foundation Centre: First Annual International Congress
   I am extending an invitation to you to consider flying over to Calgary on your way to AERA.  We are a 45 minute flight to Vancouver, and are hosting our first International Congress of Youth Studies.…Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 09:58 AM // freireproject.org

Educational justice

• Common Core School Standards
  Backer of Common Core School Curriculum Is Chosen to Lead College Board By Tamar Lewin : New York Times David Coleman, an architect of the common core curriculum standards that are being adopted in...…Wed, 16 May 2012, 08:52 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Proposal to close 25% of Philadelphia Schools
  Reposted from Rethinking Schools. by Jody Sokolower Philadelphia teachers and parents—and educators throughout the country—were horrified a few weeks ago when Thomas Knudsen, the School District... Ed…Tue, 15 May 2012, 07:54 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What you need to know about ALEC
  by Diane Ravitch ear Deborah, Since the 2010 elections, when Republicans took control of many states, there has been an explosion of legislation advancing privatization of public schools and... Educat…Wed, 9 May 2012, 09:06 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Teacher "Performance" Assessment, PACT
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• CSU Faculty vote to authorize state wide strike
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• Worried About School Funding, Most Favor Tax Increase—For the Rich | California Progress Report
  Worried About School Funding, Most Favor Tax Increase—For the Rich | California Progress Report Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic…Thu, 26 Apr 2012, 10:07 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Save Our Schools: SOS
  By Deborah Meier, Dear Diane, HELP!!! SOS!!! Reformed schools are literally becoming reform schools for the poor. It's a sign of the future as some people envision it. Although, of... Educational Just…Fri, 20 Apr 2012, 08:37 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Hired Guns on Astroturf- Fake School reform ...
  Dissent Magazine - Spring 2012 Issue - Hired Guns on Astroturf.. Dissent Magazine - Spring 2012 Issue - Hired Guns on Astrotur... Joan Barkan If you want to change government policy, change the... Edu…Sun, 8 Apr 2012, 04:00 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Flunking the Test  | American Journalism Review
  Flunking the Test  | American Journalism Review How the media fails on school coverage. Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 08:38 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Dreams Are For Everyone
  Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice, music, creativity, and building progressive movements for social justice and educatio…Tue, 27 Mar 2012, 08:53 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Public Education is about score manipulation
  by Paul Karrer. Teacher. Monterrey. http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2012/03/public-education-is-too-much-about.html Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justic…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 08:17 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Chicago School Reform
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• He’s looked at life from both sides now – or has he? Arne Duncan claims the high ground, but school clinics still face needless obstacles | Economic Policy Institute
  He’s looked at life from both sides now – or has he? Arne Duncan claims the high ground, but school clinics still face needless obstacles | Economic Policy Institute Educational Justice - stuff about…Fri, 2 Mar 2012, 05:06 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Night of Outrage: Thousands Protest NYC School Closings « Talking Union
  Night of Outrage: Thousands Protest NYC School Closings « Talking Union Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice, music, creativ…Wed, 29 Feb 2012, 05:17 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
  Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice, music, creativity, and building progressive movements for social justice and educatio…Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 11:33 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• At the Department of Education, Warm Snow Falls Up - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
  At the Department of Education, Warm Snow Falls Up - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economi…Fri, 24 Feb 2012, 10:20 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Secretary Duncan and Project RESPECT
  Billed as a new initiative to rebuild the teaching profession and elevate teacher voice, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s new RESPECT Project (which stands for Recognizing Educational... Educ…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 03:23 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Michelle Rhee tells her tale
  Courtesy of Monty Neill at Fair Test.  Long, but worth reading, especially the suggestions at the end on how to more successfully reframe the debate: Rhee's Framing of the Debate on... Educational Jus…Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 03:07 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Millionaires should pay their taxes
   by Duane Campbell California needs additional revenue to fund schools and to invest in the future.  A tax plan known as  The Millionaires Tax has... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinki…Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 11:34 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Demonstrators Protest Michelle Rhee and corporate agenda
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• Conference: Attack on Public Education
  CONFERENCE The Attack On Public Education And Privatization January 22 (Sunday), 2012, 10:00 AM -5:00 PM Laney Theater, Laney Community College 900 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA 94607 Free There... Educa…Sat, 21 Jan 2012, 03:07 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The Death and Life of the American School System
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• Corporations Sell Out Schools
  Selling Schools Out By Lee Fang Posted on November 17, 2011, Printed on January 9, 2012 http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/corporateaccountability/1580/ If the national movement... Edu…Mon, 9 Jan 2012, 05:36 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Privatization & The War Against California Teachers-Fired CTC Attorney ...
  See this and other posts about how California teachers are evaluated. Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice, music, creativit…Sat, 7 Jan 2012, 07:40 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The Assault on Teachers' Unions
  The Assault on Teachers’ Unions By Richard D. Kahlenberg Teachers’ unions are under unprecedented bipartisan attack. The drumbeat is relentless, from governors in Wisconsin and Ohio to the film... Edu…Fri, 30 Dec 2011, 03:55 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Schools Matter

• Those who read more (fiction), know more.
  Those who read more (fiction), know more. Stephen KrashenThe recent insistence that English Language Arts standards include more nonfiction and less fiction is based on the assumption that nonfiction…Sun, 20 May 2012, 01:33 PM // schoolsmatter.info
  
• Demand Congress Give Parents a Seat at the Ed Table
  Parents Across America are disappointed they haven't been able to obtain an invitation to testify or have a seat at  a seat at the table as our elected representatives in Washington debate and discuss…Sat, 19 May 2012, 08:42 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Krash Course #9: Accountability: A Quiz
  Comments posted on my recent piece at The Answer Sheet, What teachers don’t need (but are getting anyway), include a typical refrain best challenged by this posting from jdman2:Doesn't it seem strange…Sat, 19 May 2012, 04:46 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• 'The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman' now available online
  Waiting for Superman would have audiences believe that free-market competition, standardized tests, destroying teacher unions, and the proliferation of charter schools are just what this country needs…Sat, 19 May 2012, 12:33 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• The Cubberley Tradition Continues at Stanford and Pearson
  One of the classics in the history of American education is Raymond Callahan's 1962 EDUCATION AND THE CULT OF EFFICIENCY.  In the free Chapter 5 available here, you can read about the various strategi…Fri, 18 May 2012, 08:15 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Yogi Berra reveals a problem with standards
  Submitted to Florida Today, May 18, 2012US Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged Florida to adopt new textbooks, because “content is changing not annually but weekly if not daily.” (“Florida's educati…Fri, 18 May 2012, 01:45 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• The testing industry: self-appointed non-elected national school board?
  The hiring of David Coleman as its next president is consistent with the College Board's aggressive push into the K-12 assessment arena. Unlike the university admissions testing market where the Board…Wed, 16 May 2012, 10:23 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Not quite what I was trying to say: Comments about the Common Core Standards and Tests
  Not quite what I was trying to say: Comments about the Common Core Standards and TestsStephen KrashenI was quoted in an article in the NY Times about David Coleman’s appointment as head of the College…Tue, 15 May 2012, 10:47 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• McIntyre Uses Fear Card Against Knoxville Teachers in Hopes of Building Support for Merit Pay Scheme
  Despite well-funded astroturf groups, the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the State Business Roundtable, and the unceasing positive spin by local corporate media, Eli Broad's Jim McIntyre's bud…Tue, 15 May 2012, 12:04 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Opt-Out Parent in NJ: . . . the "nice" strategy got me nowhere
  Posted at Opt Out of the State Test:Jean Schutt McTavishWe are in week 2 of the opt out for my 4th grader in NJ. We met with the Superintendent and the Board of Education last night. The Superintende…Tue, 15 May 2012, 05:43 AM // schoolsmatter.info

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• National Association of Charter School Authorizers Outed as ALEC Funder
  NACSA is the most visible and well-heeled of the corporate charter front groups posing as a professional organization dedicated to quality and oversight of charter schools.  What they were, and are, i…Tue, 15 May 2012, 05:20 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• The NAEP Science Results: Inconsistent with American success in science: Are the Achievement Levels too high? And why ELLs scores are low.
  The NAEP Science Results: Inconsistent with American success in science: Are the Achievement Levels too high? And why ELLs scores are low. Stephen KrashenThe NAEP Science grade 8 results have been ann…Mon, 14 May 2012, 11:06 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Rhee-jected!
  From Daily Kos:There's good news for public education in Alabama and Connecticut, as the Michelle Rhee breed of privatizers and corporate reformers were thwarted in both states, at least partially and…Mon, 14 May 2012, 03:14 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Corporate Education Reform: the Status Quo That "never works and never dies"
  ht to Stan Karp.  From NewJerseynewsroom.com:BY PAT SUMMERSNEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COMIf the growing groundswell against the country’s so-called “education reformers” has a philosophical leader, it is Dr. D…Mon, 14 May 2012, 08:22 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Freedom of Information Request for Pearson Tests
  When the pink slime was discovered in the meat by large corporate processing plants and we realized what was actually in our food, there was outrage and it was banned, 1,2,3.  Well, it's time the publ…Sun, 13 May 2012, 11:32 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Urgent Note to Race to the Top Winners
  I know Secretary Duncan forgot to send this to you almost 3 years ago.  Sorry.However, in building a teacher evaluation system based on value-added test scores, YOU HAVE SCREWED UP!Read Full ReportDat…Sun, 13 May 2012, 04:25 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• 550 Parents Opt Out in Snohomish, Washington
  We all know that teachers can advocate for children, organize opposition, and try to make the abusive testing environments as humane as possible.  But we know, too, that parents hold the key to bringi…Sat, 12 May 2012, 07:53 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• How Will NEA Support Corporate Education Reform This Year?
   Last updated 12:30 PMIn defiance of the core principles of the NEA's Code of Ethics and basic common sense, last year the non-leadership of NEA arm-twisted the member reps into supporting the latest…Sat, 12 May 2012, 09:33 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Corrupt, Unethical, Inept: Boycott Pearson
  Seems as Merryl Tisch has come out her coma. From NY1:Officials with the company responsible for this year's state English and math tests have not commented publicly on recently-discovered errors in t…Fri, 11 May 2012, 06:56 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Janus: God of Politics?
  Janus, of Roman mythology, is the source for the first month of the calendar year, January. But Janus is also a two-faced god, thus developing a negative connotation with hypocrisy and deception.In 20…Fri, 11 May 2012, 09:53 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Book banning, book burnings. Same symptoms, same system.
  In the effort to vanish our books, Arizona has actually given them enormous power. Arizona has made our books sacred documents now. — Sherman Alexie A week or so ago someone on the Southern California…Thu, 10 May 2012, 10:57 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Nation's Largest Governor Becomes New Jersey's Biggest Liar
  If this kind of lying were not so commonplace among the governors owned by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, it would be astonishing.  HT to Stan Karp:One week after releasing new graduation rates that h…Wed, 9 May 2012, 03:23 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• The Naked Truth about the National Reading Panel Report
  Stephen Krashen's letter to Ed Week in the previous post has motivated me to post the following review here for all those young teachers who are reading the deceptive, revisionist crap by those who wa…Wed, 9 May 2012, 08:10 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• National Reading Panel Erred; Letter IncorrectPublished in Education Week, May 9, 2012To the Editor:I was astounded to read Linda Diamond's revisionist view of the last decade in literacy research (Co…Wed, 9 May 2012, 07:18 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• What Parents Across America Know,Think and Feel
  From Parents Across America:Let your local, state and national representatives in the legislatures hear your voices.Here is a powerful letter reprinted from today’s Syracuse Post-Standard.This week is…Tue, 8 May 2012, 01:16 PM // schoolsmatter.info

ESL Podcast Blog

• Podcasts This Week (May 21, 2012)
  What did you say? Can you repeat that? If you’re tired of not understanding what you hear in English, get the Learning Guide and see a complete transcript of every word spoken in the episode.  You’ll…Sun, 20 May 2012, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
  
• Fallingwater
  I don’t often surf (move from one site to another) the Internet. But I did recently. And it started at the Smithsonian Magazine web site (highly recommended!) when I saw an article titled “Frank Lloyd…Thu, 17 May 2012, 08:55 AM // eslpod.com
• Men in (the) Black
  To be in the black means to make a profit, when a company receives more money than it spends. (The opposite is to be in the red, when you are losing money.) Movie studios (companies that make movies)…Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:05 AM // eslpod.com
• Podcasts This Week (May 14, 2012)
  We talk a lot about the Learning Guide that accompanies each podcast because we designed it to help you learn English better and faster, and isn’t that why you listen? Get more vocabulary, language ex…Mon, 14 May 2012, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• Give Me More Vacation Time…Maybe…
  If you work in the U.S. in a full-time job, you probably get paid vacation time. In the U.S., a full-time job is typically 40 hours of work a week, although that varies (is different) depending on the…Thu, 10 May 2012, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• April Showers Bring May Flowers (State Nicknames II)
  The title of today’s post is an old saying (expression) in English. A shower is when it rains. You can have light showers (a little bit of rain) or heavy showers (a lot of rain). The showers of early…Tue, 8 May 2012, 09:46 AM // eslpod.com
• Podcast This Week (May 7, 2012)
  We are grateful to our members and donors, because we are only able to produce this podcast with the generous help of our listeners. If you enjoy our podcasts, please consider supporting ESL Podcast b…Mon, 7 May 2012, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• Who Invented Jaywalking?
  “If you ask people today [in the U.S.] what a street is for, they will say cars,” writes Peter Norton, according to a recent Atlantic Cities article. “That’s practically (almost) the opposite of what…Thu, 3 May 2012, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• 5 Things You Didn’t Hear When You Graduated
  What advice would you give a young person who is about to graduate from (finish; complete) college in 2012? Last year I talked about the tradition of commencement speeches at American colleges. A comm…Tue, 1 May 2012, 10:29 AM // eslpod.com
• Podcasts This Week (April 30, 2012)
  Do you want to improve your English, but don’t have a lot of time? Make the best use of the time you have by getting the Learning Guide. We designed the Learning Guide to help you learn English better…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com

Using English

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• IELTS Speaking- Vocabulary Brainstorming [PDF]
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• It was ____ disaster.
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• Nouns that are usually uncountable dictation [PDF]
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• Necessity is the mother of invention
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• Custom Essay Sites
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• Business English- Presentation Roleplays [PDF]
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• Countable & Uncountable- Decide the Amount [PDF]
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• How to teach IELTS Speaking Part Two
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• Cockney Rhyming Slang 5
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• Business English- Simple Past of Common Verbs [PDF]
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• Hair on fire
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Breaking News English

• Iran anger at Google over Persian Gulf
  May 19, 2012. Iran has expressed its anger and dissatisfaction with Google after the name 'Persian Gulf' disappeared from Google Maps. feeds.feedburner.com
• World's first underwater mosque built
  May 16, 2012. Saudi Arabia has built the world's first underwater mosque. A group of divers constructed the aquatic place of worship off the Saudi coast close to the border with Jordan. feeds.feedburner.com
• The sandwich celebrates 250th birthday
  May 13, 2012. The sandwich is 250 years old this weekend and residents in the English town of Sandwich, where the bread meal was first eaten, are celebrating their culinary history. The 11th Earl of S…feeds.feedburner.com
• Facebook hoodie angers bankers
  May 10, 2012. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg angered Wall Street bankers this week by turning up to a meeting wearing a hoodie – a casual, zip-up jacket with an attached hood. feeds.feedburner.com
• Energy drinks irreversibly damage teeth
  May 7, 2012. A new study has found that energy drinks and sports drinks cause irreversible damage to teeth, with energy drinks being twice as damaging as sports drinks. feeds.feedburner.com
• Being bilingual boosts brain power
  May 4, 2012. A study by the USA's Northwestern University provides biological evidence that people who are bilingual have a more powerful brain. feeds.feedburner.com
• Movie screenplays released as eBooks
  May 1, 2012. If you are a movie fan and you like studying English, you might just be interested in the latest initiative of the Hollywood movie studio Warner Brothers. The company has released a serie…feeds.feedburner.com
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BU

• FYI: Corpora at the Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora
  In June 2011, the Research Centre on Multilingualism (SFB 538) has ended after twelve years of work. The Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora (HZSK, http://www.corpora.uni-hamburg.de) has now made a nu…Wed, 16 May 2012, 10:58 AM // bu.edu
• Jobs: Arabic; Applied Ling; Arabic Culture & Literature: Lecturer, U of Silesia
  University or Organization: University of Silesia Department: Institute of English Job Location: Sosnowiec, Poland Web Address: http://ija.us.edu.pl Job Rank: Lecturer Specialty Areas: Applied Linguis…Wed, 16 May 2012, 10:58 AM // bu.edu
• Review: Pragmatics; Language Acquisition: Taguchi (2012)
  AUTHOR: Taguchi, Naoko TITLE: Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence SERIES TITLE: Second Language Acquisition PUBLISHER: Multilingual Matters YEAR: 2012 Wei Ren, Department of Forei…Wed, 16 May 2012, 10:57 AM // bu.edu
• Review: Cognitive Science; Pragmatics: Harder (2010)
  AUTHOR: Peter Harder TITLE: Meaning in Mind and Society SUBTITLE: A Functional Contribution to the Social Turn in Cognitive Linguistics PUBLISHER: De Gruyter Mouton YEAR: 2010 Avi Weizmann, PhD,  Isra…Wed, 16 May 2012, 10:57 AM // bu.edu
• Review: Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Ling.; Pragmatics: Murphy (2010)
  AUTHOR:  Murphy, Bróna TITLE:  Corpus and Sociolinguistics SUBTITLE:  Investigating Age and Gender in Female Talk SERIES TITLE:  Studies in Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 38 PUBLISHER:  John Benjamins YEAR:…Wed, 16 May 2012, 06:54 AM // bu.edu
• Review: Sociolinguistics; Applied Linguistics: Tagliamonte (2011)
  AUTHOR: Sali. A. Tagliamonte TITLE: Variationist Sociolinguistics SUBTITLE: Change, Observation, Interpretation SERIES TITLE: Language in Society YEAR: 2011 PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell Elizabeth Latime…Wed, 16 May 2012, 06:53 AM // bu.edu
• Jobs: English; Applied Ling (English Teaching): Asst Prof, Mokpo National U
  University or Organization: Mokpo National University Department: English Language and Literature Job Location: Mokpo, JeonNam, Korea, South Web Address: http://www.mokpo.ac.kr Job Rank: Assistant Pro…Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:49 AM // bu.edu
• Jobs: Statistical NLP: Researcher, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
  University or Organization: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Department: Language Technology Group Job Location: Vienna, Austria Web Address: http://www.ofai.at Job Rank: Resear…Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:48 AM // bu.edu
• Support: Semantics: PhD Student, University of Brighton, UK
  Institution/Organization: University of Brighton Department: Humanities Web Address: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/researchstudy/2012studentships/ Level: PhD Duties: Research Specialty Areas: Semantics Pr…Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:48 AM // bu.edu
• Support: General Ling: PhD Student, LMU München, Germany
  Institution/Organization: LMU München Department: Linguistisches Internationales Promotionsprogramm Web Address: http://www.lipp.lmu.de Level: PhD Duties: Research Specialty Areas: General Linguistics…Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:47 AM // bu.edu

Cambridge

• Latest news from the Department of Italian
  The Department is seeking to make a new appointment to the Serena Professorship in Italian. You can find further information about the chair and details on how to apply hereTue, 7 Feb 2012, 04:56 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Italian
  ASMI postgraduate essay prize winnerThu, 5 Jan 2012, 07:54 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of German and Dutch
  Department participates in worldwide series of readings celebrating the works of Heinrich von KleistMon, 28 Nov 2011, 03:27 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Leverhulme Trust - Early Career Fellowships in MML
  'MML invites applications for the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships (internal and external candidates may be considered)Tue, 22 Nov 2011, 06:05 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  Vacancy. PROFESSORSHIP OF SPANISH in the Department of Spanish and PortugueseMon, 12 Sep 2011, 05:02 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from Linguistics
  Creation of the new Department of Theoretical and Applied LinguisticsThu, 1 Sep 2011, 05:22 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Faculty
  The Faculty was delighted to learn that Cambridge has come top of the league table for Modern Languages and Linguistics in the University Guide 2012 published by the Guardian newspaperFri, 22 Jul 2011, 06:56 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Faculty
  The Department of French provides two of the eight Cambridge academics elected as Fellows of The British Academy in 2011Fri, 22 Jul 2011, 06:54 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Faculty
  His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, comes to the Faculty on his final visit to Cambridge as ChancellorTue, 19 Jul 2011, 05:10 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest News from the Department of German and Dutch
  DAAD Writer in Residence in Department of German and DutchThu, 3 Feb 2011, 03:27 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk

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• Latest News from the Department of Linguistics
  Congratulations to Professor Ian Roberts of the Linguistics Department who has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.Fri, 7 Jan 2011, 02:38 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Linguistics
  The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce that two new websites for two of our Research Clusters have just gone live: The Historical Linguistics Research Cluster website and the Phonetics a…Mon, 29 Nov 2010, 07:09 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of German and Dutch
  German Writer Kai Weyand in Cambridge Thursday, 25 November, 2010Tue, 16 Nov 2010, 08:14 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• News from the Department of Slavonic Studies
  Fade from Red: Screening in the Cold-War Ex-Enemy 1990-2005.Thu, 11 Nov 2010, 03:48 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Linguistics
  Dr Bert Vaux and Dr James Clackson (Classics) on 'From hieroglyphs to txt, scripts, language and the brain'. Excerpts from their Festival of Ideas talk are now online.Thu, 4 Nov 2010, 05:29 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Slavonic Studies
  Memory and Post-War Russian Cinema: Film Critics on the Front Lines (A symposium in honour of Maia Turovskaya)Tue, 19 Oct 2010, 04:30 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• News from the Department of Slavonic Studies
  Cambridge becomes a permanent home for Ukrainian StudiesTue, 19 Oct 2010, 04:30 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest News from IT Support Services
  Students are reminded about using the Language Centre's online Satellite Television feed in the CALL FacilityTue, 5 Oct 2010, 05:18 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• News from the Department of Slavonic Studies
  Library Talk for Undergraduate StudentsWed, 29 Sep 2010, 02:07 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Launch of MML's new website
  MML's new website has gone live for the start of the new academic year.Mon, 20 Sep 2010, 03:08 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Launch of the RSS Feed
  MML's RSS feed has gone live over the summer. Information on people and events (including updated information on current lectures) will be posted here.Tue, 10 Aug 2010, 08:13 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk

Chicago

• Alumnus update: Harris joins Pomona College
  Jesse Harris (BA/MA 2002) joins the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College as an assistant professor this year. Congratulations, Jesse!Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 01:10 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Sonderegger goes to McGill University
  Morgan Sonderegger has accepted a position of assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The position starts in August, 2012. Congratulations, M…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 01:02 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Linglunch on April 11
  Linglunch will feature two presentations on Wednesday, April 11 at noon down in the Landahl Center: 12.00 Andrea Beltrama - Italian-issimo: intensification at the semantic/pragmatics interface 12.30 J…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 01:01 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Chatzopoulou gave two talks in March
  Aikaterini Chatzopoulou presented “Renewal and inertia in the history of Greek negation” at Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2012) on March 8th and ”Jespersen’s Cycle Redefined” at…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 01:00 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• CLS program announced
  The tentative program of CLS 48, which will take place on April 19-21, is now available.  Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 12:59 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu

Columbia

• On Language
  On Language: American English(es) and Popular Usage? Friday April 27th 2012 4-6pm Hamilton (room number TBA)  Join the Lexicography Society and Columbia Linguistics Society for a panel discussion feat…Thu, 19 Apr 2012, 06:37 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Upcoming Talks
  We have two really exciting talks coming up to close the semester, come have cookies and share interesting ideas with great professors! Names and Predicates With Delia Fara, department of philosophy,…Fri, 9 Dec 2011, 07:53 AM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Learning to Generate Understandable Animations of American Sign Language
  Join CLS at 4:30pm on Thursday, November 17th in Hamilton 306 for a talk by Matt Huenerfauth, entitled “Learning to Generate Understandable Animations of American Sign Language”. Refreshments will be…Tue, 8 Nov 2011, 01:29 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Lexicography Society
  A Columbia student has just started the Lexicography Society, and it is launching this week! Check it out: LEXICOGRAPHY SOCIETY, proper noun. \ˌlek-sə-ˈkä-grə-fē\ \sə-ˈsī-ə-tē\ 1) A collection of word…Tue, 8 Nov 2011, 01:19 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Pan-Hispanic Identity and the Royal Spanish Academy’s Transatlantic Authority
  Join CLS at 4pm, Friday November 4th in Hamilton 709, for a talk by Jose del Valle, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center, about “Pan-Hispanic identity and the Royal Spanish Ac…Sun, 30 Oct 2011, 08:03 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Locality Domains for Contextual Allosemy with Alec Marantz, NYU
  Join CLS on Thursday, October 27th, at 4:30pm in Hamilton 306 for a talk with Alec Marantz, professor of linguistics and psychology at NYU, on the nature of meaning variation in context, and its relat…Sat, 22 Oct 2011, 01:18 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Symposium Dinner!
  Be a happy, fed linguist! Join CLS for Greek food, conversation (not necessarily Greek, but we can’t make any guarantees!), and general merriment at Symposium this Friday! Symposium is at 544 West 113…Tue, 27 Sep 2011, 06:50 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Chris Barker on actions as semantic objects
  Join us this Friday, September 23, from 3:40-5:40PM in Hamilton 717 for our first speaker of the year! Chris Barker, professor of linguistics at NYU, will be speaking on the pros and cons of viewing a…Mon, 19 Sep 2011, 11:06 AM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Student panel and first cottage dinner
  Interested in knowing what linguistics type things people have been doing recently? Want to meet other people interested in languages and linguistics? Come to the CLS student panel and join us for the…Thu, 15 Sep 2011, 08:26 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Words
  Check out this neat Radiolab episode about language, Words. It covers some of the nice and quirky things about language that you might forget while you’re, say, diagramming sentence trees. Featuring t…Wed, 27 Oct 2010, 08:06 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com

Edinburgh

• Seminar: Dong Yu
  Why Deep Neural Networks Are Promising for Speech RecognitionThu, 17 May 2012, 07:32 AM // ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk

Manchester

• Eugénie Henderson Prize for Ramsammy!
  Manchet is sure you will want to join in congratulating recent PhD alum MichaelRamsammy, who has just won the Eugénie HendersonPrize of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians(BAAP). The Eugé…Thu, 29 Mar 2012, 09:30 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Welcome to George Walkden!
  Although we’re very sad to see Nuria leave for the next five years, Manchet is happy to report that her duties have been put in the very capable hands of our new colleague George Walkden while she’s a…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 12:04 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Bon voyage, Nuria!
  Manchet can now report that colleague Nuria Yáñez-Bouza has set sail for Spain, to take up a five (!!!) year fellowship at the University of Vigo.  Although this happened in January, it is only now th…Sun, 18 Mar 2012, 11:59 PM // manling.wordpress.com
• Schultze-Berndt at Australianists Workshop
  Colleague Eva Schultze Berndt has been announced as one of the invited speakers at this April’s 7th European Australianists workshop, taking place at SOAS in London.  Details here!Sun, 18 Mar 2012, 11:52 PM // manling.wordpress.com
• Cruschina at Italian Dialect Meeting!
  Silvio Cruschina, currently a postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC-funded Existential Constructions grant, has been announced as one of the keynote speakers at the Italian Dialect Meeting in Leiden in…Sun, 18 Mar 2012, 11:49 PM // manling.wordpress.com
• Editorial accolades for Bermúdez-Otero!
  While Manchet has been quiet over the past months, colleague Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero has been racking up achievements, including being elected to the Council of the Philological Society, to the editori…Sun, 18 Mar 2012, 02:04 PM // manling.wordpress.com
• Multilingual Manchester at the Manchester Museum!
  The Multilingual Manchester initiative recently held an event at the Manchester Museum.  Hazel Garder reports below! ———- As part of the annual Manchester Histories festival, we put on an interactive…Sun, 18 Mar 2012, 02:00 PM // manling.wordpress.com
• Hogg-fest
  On Saturday 17 December a half-day event has been organized to commemorate our late (great) colleague, Professor Richard M. Hogg, on the occasion of the launch of the CUP book Analysing older English.…Sun, 4 Dec 2011, 01:15 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Turton at F-MART
  PhD student Daniel Turton, who is this semester a visiting student at the Penn Linguistics Department, presented her work this past Friday on Stochastic Stratal OT and /l/-darkening at F-MART, the wee…Sun, 4 Dec 2011, 01:12 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Kim in Cambridge
  This past week colleague Yuni Kim was in Cambridge delivering a talk on `Phonetics vs. phonology in Huave consonant-vowel interactions’.  More details, including an abstract, can be found here.Sun, 4 Dec 2011, 01:09 AM // manling.wordpress.com

Michigan

• Congrats to Drs. Tyler, Zhang, & Szymanski
  Joseph Tyler (April 18), Xinting Zhang (April 22), and Terry Szymanski (April 26) successfully defended their dissertations. (Click title for titles/abstracts.)Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• The Littlest Linguist
  David Medeiros writes that on Tuesday at 1:39pm, Autumn gave birth to their son, Hayden, who was 8lb 11oz and 19.5in at birth. Hayden is a beautiful and healthy baby, and is a joy be with. (Click for…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Pires at "Formal Approaches to Heritage Language"
  Acrisio Pires was a keynote speaker at the Conference on Formal Approaches to Heritage Language, April 21-22, 2012, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with the talk “Heritage Bilingual Acqui…Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Courtesy Appointments for Keshet (Philosophy) and Queen (English)
  Two Linguistics faculty members have recently received courtesy appointments in other departments: Ezra Keshet in Philosophy and Robin Queen in English Language and Literature.Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Chatterjee and Hettiarachchi receive Rackham Centennial Summer Fellowships
  Tridha Chatterjee and Sujeewa Hettiarachchi each received a competitive Rackham Centennial Spring/Summer Fellowship to work on their research in collaboration with a faculty mentor. Congratulations Tr…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Emily Coppess to University of Chicago Linguistics
  Congratulations to Emily Coppess, U of M Linguistics and Math alum (class of 2011), who will join the PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Chicago!Wed, 4 Apr 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Medeiros receives Mellon/ACLS Fellowship
  David Medeiros received a highly competitive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Grant. Congratulations, David and well done!Tue, 3 Apr 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Lauren Squires to OSU
  Lauren Squires (PhD 2011) has been named to a tenure-track position in the English Department at the Ohio State University.Sun, 18 Mar 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Thomason at the Berkeley Linguistics Society
  Sally Thomason gave a plenary talk, Contact-induced language change and typological congruence, at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society in February. (Click title for details)Tue, 13 Mar 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Chatterjee at the Berkeley Linguistics Society
  Tridha Chatterjee presented a paper at the Berkeley Linguistics Society's 38th Annual Meeting titled Bilingual Compound Verbs: So what's new about them? (Click title for details.)Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu

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• Tim Chou awarded Rackham Pre-Doc Fellowship
  Tim Chou has received a prestigious Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for the Academic Year 2012-13.Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Linguistics grad's unusual job application
  Click the title to see the story of Lindsay Blackwell's unusual way to land a job.Sun, 19 Feb 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Tim Chou journal paper and conference
  A paper by graduate student Tim Chou is now published in the journal Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental, and Interdisciplinary Research. He will also present at the 36th Penn Linguistics C…Sun, 5 Feb 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Joseph Tyler receives Graduate Teaching Certificate
  On December 1, Joseph Tyler received the Graduate Teaching Certificate from the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). (Click title for details.)Thu, 26 Jan 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• John Swales (Emeritus) update
  John Swales writes in with his plans for the semester. (Click title for details.)Thu, 26 Jan 2012, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu

MIT

• Syntax Square 5/15 - Christiana Christodoulou
  Speaker: Christiana Christodoulou (MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences) Title: Case in Down syndrome: Morpho-syntactic illusions and the role of interfaces Date/Time: Tuesday, May 15, 1-2p Location: 32-D46…Mon, 14 May 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 5/16 - Sam Al-Khatib and Suyeon Yun
  Speakers: Sam Al-Khatib and Suyeon Yun Title: TBA Date/Time: Wednesday, May 16, 5p Location: 32-D831 These will be practice presentations for the upcoming Manchester Phonology Meeting.Mon, 14 May 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT Linguists at SALT 22
  Several MIT-affiliated linguists will be presenting posters at the upcoming 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference (SALT 22) in Chicago, May 18-20: Hadas Kotek, Yasutada Sudo and Martin Hackl…Mon, 14 May 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 5/7 - Ayaka Sugawara
  Speaker: Ayaka Sugawara Date/Time: Monday, May 7, 5:30p Location: 32-D461 In this talk, I’d like to discuss an experimental design to investigate children’s knowledge about alternative creation in sen…Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG I 5/8 - Noah Constant
  LFRG will meet twice this week. Please note the unusual time and location of this meeting. Speaker: Noah Constant (UMass) Date/Time: 5/8 (Tue) 11 am - 1 pm Location: 32-144 Title: Witnessable Quantifi…Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No Syntax Square This Week
  There is no Syntax Square talk this week.Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 5/9 - Gretchen Kern
  Speaker: Gretchen Kern Date/Time: 5/9 (Wednesday) 5 pm Location: 32-D831 Title: Perceptual Similarity in Sonority Contours: Evidence from Early Irish Rhyming Patterns Abstract: This is a practice talk…Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No Ling-Lunch This Week
  There is no Ling-Lunch talk this week.Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG II 5/10 - Yasutada Sudo
  Speaker: Yasutada Sudo Date/Time: 5/10 (Thu) 10-11:30 Location: 32-D831 Title: Gender Presuppositions and Anaphora in Quantified Sentences Abstract: Presupposition projection in quantified sentences h…Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Kotek, Miyagawa and Sugawara at CUNY
  Hadas Kotek, Shigeru Miyagawa, Ayaka Sugawara and collaborators gave a poster presentation, “Perception of Japanese vowel duration contrasts by L1 and L2 learners of Japanese: An EEG/MEG study” at the…Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Saturday Workshop on Scalar Implicatures
  Next Saturday, May 12, MIT Linguistics will host a special one-day workshop on Cross-Discplinary Perspectives on Scalar Implicatures.. The workshop brings together researchers across a variety of disc…Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Bjorkman to Toronto for post-doc!
  Bronwyn Bjorkman, PhD 2011, has accepted a SSHRC post-doc at the University of Toronto, where she will work with Elizabeth Cowper.  Congratulations, Bronwyn!!Mon, 7 May 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 4/30 - Ayaka Sugawara
  Speaker: Ayaka Sugawara Date/Time: Monday, Apr 30, 5:30p Location: 32-D461 In my LFRG talk I proposed a new experiment on ACD acquisition. In this talk, I would like to discuss pilot results of the ex…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG I 5/1: Anastasia Smirnova
  LFRG will meet twice this week. Please note the unusual date/time and location for this meeting: Speaker: Anastasia Smirnova (Tufts University) Date/Time: Tuesday, May 1, 10-11:30 am Location: 56-180…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 5/1 - Mitcho Erlewine
  Speaker: Mitcho Erlewine Title: Kaqchikel Agent Focus and the syntax of extraction Date/Time: Tuesday, May 1, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 Agent Focus (AF) in Mayan languages is a morphological change to tr…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 5/2 - Rory Turnbull
  Speaker: Rory Turnbull (Ohio State University) Date/Time: Wednesday, May 2, 5p Location: 32-D831 Title/Abstract TBAMon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG II 5/3: Natalia Ivlieva & Sam Alxatib
  Speakers: Natalia Ivlieva & Sam Alxatib Date/Time: 5/3 (Thu) 10 am-11:30 am Location: 32-D831 Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss several puzzles related to the superlative modifiers ‘at least’ an…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 5/3 - Maziar Toosarvandani
  Speaker: Maziar Toosarvandani (MIT) Title: Temporal interpretation and discourse structure in Northern Paiute Date/Time: Thursday, May 3, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 The full abstract is available (…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Jeremy Hartman to UMass Amherst!
  5th-year student Jeremy Hartman has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Commonwealth Honors College at UMass Amherst.  His duties at UMass…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Linguistics Colloquium 5/4 - Hagit Borer
  Speaker: Hagit Borer (Queen Mary University of London and USC) Date/Time: 5/4 (Friday), 3.30 pm Location: 32-141 Title: The Domain of Content Abstract: An investigation of the properties of derived no…Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 4/23 - Wataru Uegaki
  Speaker: Wataru Uegaki Date/Time: Monday, Apr 23, 5:30p Location: 32-D461 In this talk, I will discuss some prospects for a new project investigating the realtime construction of alternatives used in…Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 4/24 - Junya Nomura and Daeyoung Sohn
  Speakers: Junya Nomura and Daeyoung Sohn Tile: First conjunct agreement in Kaqchikel Location: 32-D461 Time: Tuesday, Apr 24, 1-2p The full abstract is available here (pdf).Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Special talk 4/24 - Uli Sauerland
  Speaker: Uli Sauerland Date/Time: Tuesday 4/24, 5 pm Location: 32-D831 Title: Modeling Syncretism Distribution (joint work with Jonathan Bobaljik) Abstract: Does the fact that English “you” is both si…Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 4/25 - Sameer ud Dowla Khan
  Speaker: Sameer ud Dowla Khan (Brown University) Date/Time: 4/25 (Wed), 5 pm Location: 32-D831 Title: What echo reduplication reveals about correspondence and similarity Abstract: Unlike canonical red…Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 4/26 - Nadine Bade
  Speaker: Nadine Bade (Harvard, Tübingen) Date/Time: 4/26 (Thu) 10-11.30 am Location: 32-D831 Title: Obligatory Presuppositions and Exhaustive Interpretation Abstract: I will provide an analysis for th…Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 4/26 - Kevin Ryan
  Speaker: Kevin Ryan (Harvard) Title: Statistical onset weight effects in stress and meter Date/Time: Thursday, Apr 26, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 A traditional observation regarding syllable weight…Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Linguistics Colloquium 4/27 - Uli Sauerland
  Speaker: Uli Sauerland, ZAS (Berlin) Date/Time: Friday 4/27, 3:30 pm Location: 32-141 Title: Attitudes and Embedding Abstract: The question I investigate is whether sentence embedding is universally u…Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Jonah Katz to Berkeley with a Mellon Fellowship
  Phonetician and musicolinguist Jonah Katz (PhD 2010) has been awarded a 2-year Mellon Fellowship at UC Berkeley. Jonah has been a post-doc at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, and will move to Berkele…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 02:51 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Coppe & Hadas went to WCCFL
  Remember those WCCFL practice talks we announced last week by Coppe van Urk and Hadas Kotek. Last weekend was the real thing, and by all accounts both WCCFL 30 at Santa Cruz and the talks by Coppe (jo…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 4/18 - Giorgio Magri
  Speaker: Giorgio Magri (Jean Nicod) Date/Time: 4/18 (Wed) 5 pm Location: 32D-831 Title: The OT error-driven ranking model of the acquisition of phonotactics: some computational results Abstract: Nine-…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 4/19 - Ben George
  Speaker: Ben George Location:32-D831 Date/Time: 4/19 (Thu) 10 am Title: Question Embedding: Varieties of Reducibility and Non-Reducibility Abstract: In this talk is an effort to collect some of my rec…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT@Ottawa Modality workship
  At the Modality workshop at University of Ottawa this coming weekend, MIT will be represented by invited speaker Sabine Iatridou (an invited speaker); Bronwyn Bjorkman (PhD 2011) and Claire Halpert (I…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 4/19 - Leon Bergen
  Speaker: Leon Bergen (Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT) Title: That’s what she (could have) said: How alternative utterances affect language use Time: Thursday, Apr 19, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 (J…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Monday & Tuesday holidays
  Just a reminder that Monday and Tuesday of this week are holidays at MIT, and no classes will be held (unless otherwise specified). Monday is Patriots’ Day, which commemorates the battles of Lexington…Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 4/9 - Coppe van Urk and Hadas Kotek
  Syntax Square will meet on Monday this week due to the meeting with the Visiting Committee. The presenters will be giving WCCFL practice talks. Date/Time: Monday, Apr 9, 12-1p (Note special date/time)…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 4/9 - Yasutada Sudo and Jeremy Hartman
  Speakers: Yasutada Sudo and Jeremy Hartman Title: Principle B and Phonologically Reduced Pronouns in Child English Date/Time: Monday, Apr 9, 5:30-7p Location: 32-D461 The full abstract is available (P…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 4/11 - Suyeon Yun
  Speaker: Suyeon Yun Date/Time: 11 April (Wed), 5 pm Location: 32D-831 Title: Epenthesis Positioning in Loan Adaptation: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology In loan adaptation, vowel epenthesis frequently o…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 4/12 - Igor Yanovich
  Speaker: Igor Yanovich Date/Time: Thursday April 12, 10 am Location: 32-D831 Title: Modal hopes and fears: A diachronic study Abstract: In Modern English, may and might are generally modals of epistem…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 4/12 - Meghan Sumner
  Speaker: Meghan Sumner (Stanford) Date/Time: Thursday, Apr 12, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 Phonetic variation in speech is often considered a barrier to understanding spoken words. In this talk, I p…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Preminger to Syracuse!
  Omer Preminger, PhD 2011, has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Syracuse University. Omer is spending the current academic year as a a Post-Doctoral Teaching Associate in our dep…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Linguistics Colloquium 4/13 - Meghan Sumner
  Speaker: Meghan Sumner, Stanford University Date/Time: Friday 4/13, 3:30 PM Location: 32-141 Title: Effects of indexical variation on the perception and recognition of spoken words within and across a…Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No ESSL Meeting This Week
  There will be no Experimental Syntax/Semantics Lab meeting this week.Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 4/2 - Sverre Stausland Johnsen
  Speaker: Sverre Stausland Title: Vowel Weakening in Old West Saxon Date: April 2 (Monday—note the special date and time!) Time: 5:30 Location: 32D-831 The predecessor of the Modern English weak verbs…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 4/3 - Norvin Richards and Coppe van Urk
  Speakers: Norvin Richards and Coppe van Urk Title: Dinka Bor and the signature of successive-cyclic movement Date/Time: Tuesday, Apr 3, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 In this talk, we outline our initial find…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 4/5 - Wataru Uegaki
  Speaker: Wataru Uegaki Title: Japanese alternative questions are matrix disjunctions of Q-marked clauses Date/Time: Thursday April 5, 10 am Location: 32-D831 Abstract: Authors in the previous literatu…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 4/5 - Adam Szczegielniak
  Speaker: Adam Szczegielniak (Harvard) Title: Relativizing two types of degrees Date/Time: Thursday, Apr 5, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 This talk will propose an alternative to Carlson (1977) and Gro…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Linguistics Colloquium 4/6 - Benjamin Spector
  Speaker: Benjamin Spector — Institut Jean Nicod, ENS Date/Time: 3:30 PM, Friday 04/06 Location: 32-141 Title: Generalized Scope Economy (Joint work with Clemens Mayr, ZAS Berlin) Abstract: It is a wel…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Wayne O’Neil in China
  Wayne O’Neil is spending three weeks in China (Mar 28-Apr 18), lecturing on linguistic theory and second-language acquisition, at Shandong University in Jinan for the most part, but also at Beijing Fo…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• An award for Shigeru
  Our very own Shigeru Miyagawa has won MIT’s President’s Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE) “for his contributions to the global OpenCourseWare and Open Education movements.” More here. Congratu…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT Linguists in Spain and England
  The 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar was held in Barcelona on March 21-23. Donca Steriade was an invited speaker (The cycle without containment), and talks were given by graduate student Yusuke I…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics last weekend
  As we wrote in last week’s issue, MIT was the host of the second-ever workshop on Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics (FASAL 2) last weekend, and it was a fantastic conference, with great spe…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 3/19 - Adam Albright
  Speaker: Adam Albright Title: Discovering and modeling cumulative markedness interactions with loglinear models Date/Time: Monday Mar 19, 5:30pm Location: 32-D461 (Note unusual location) It is often o…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Experimental Syntax/Semantics Lab Meeting 3/19 - Hadas Kotek
  Speaker: Hadas Kotek Date/Time: Monday, Mar 19, 5:30p Location: 32-D124 (Note unusual location) The full abstract is available (pdf). I will present pilot results from two sentence processing studies…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG Special Session 3/20 - Alex Silk
  Speaker: Alex Silk (University of Michigan / MIT) Title: Information-Sensitivity in Deontic ‘Ought’ and ‘Must’ Date/Time: Tuesday Mar 20, 10:00AM-11:30AM Location: 66-168 (Note unusual time and locati…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 3/20 - Theresa Biberauer
  Speaker: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) Title: 231 and the Final-over-Final Constraint Date/Time: Tuesday, Mar 20, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 In terms of the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New research listing on our homepage
  The MIT Linguistics homepage now has a link for a comprehensive (we’re getting there…) listing of papers and presentations by the members of our department over the past decade or so.  (Click on the n…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Conferences in our future
  The program for CLS 48 is out, and it looks as though much of MIT will be transplanted to Chicago for the meeting. Adam Albright and Kai von Fintel are invited speakers at the conference, and a total…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 3/22 - Theresa Biberauer
  Speaker: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) Title: One peculiarity leads to another: insights from Afrikaans analyticity Date/Time: Thursday, Mar 22, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 This talk t…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 3/22 - Mitcho
  Speaker: Mitcho Erlewine Title: Association with traces and the copy theory of movement (practice talk for GLOW) Date/Time: Thursday Mar 22, 10:00AM-11:30AM Location: 32-D831 Abstract: In this talk I…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square Special Session 3/23 - Hadas Kotek
  This special session of Syntax Square on Friday will be a practice talk for GLOW. Speaker: Hadas Kotek Title: WH-fronting in a two-probe system Date/Time: Friday, Mar 23, 3:30-4:30p Location: 32-D831…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NSF summer research grant for mitcho
  mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) received an East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute grant from the National Science Foundation, which will permit him spend two months this summer in Taiwan to condu…Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 3/12 - Hadas Kotek
  Speaker: Hadas Kotek Title: Second meeting of blocking effects reading group Date/Time: Monday, Mar 12, 5:30p Location: 32-D461 In our previous meeting we discussed two approaches to blocking effects:…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 3/13 - Coppe van Urk
  Speaker: Coppe van Urk Date/Time: Tuesday, Mar 13, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 This talk discusses work in progress on idiomatic readings of ‘give,’ ‘get,’ and ‘have.’ I show that this data provides eviden…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 3/14 - Sam Steddy
  Speaker: Sam Steddy Title: How Palatalisation in Italian Verbs is a Regular Process Date/Time: Wednesday, Mar 14, 5-7p Location: 32D-831 Italian has a rule of palatalisation transforming velar stops /…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 3/15 - Sarah Ouwayda
  Speaker: Sarah Ouwayda (USC) Date/Time: 15 Mar (Thursday) 10-11:30am Location: 32-D831 Title: The Mass-Like Behavior of Plurals of Mass Abstract: Plural marking, when it occurs on a noun that is typic…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 3/15 - Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
  Title: The Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus Speaker: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (MIT) Date/Time: Thursday, Mar 15, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 While many have advocated for the use o…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG special session 3/16 - Masa Yamada
  Speaker: Masa Yamada (University of Kyoto/University of Chicago) Date/Time: 3/16 (Friday) 3:30-5 pm (Note unusual time) Location: 32-D831 Title: Reciprocal and Pluraction in Japanese Abstract: Numerou…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Claire Halpert at ACAL
  5th-year student Claire Halpert is off to New Orleans this week for the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), where she will give a talk on “Optional agreement: new facts about Zulu su…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics @MIT next weekend
  Next Saturday and Sunday (March 17 & 18), MIT will be hosting the second workshop on Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL 2), with papers in formal syntax, semantics and morphology. The i…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 3/5 - Yasu Sudo and Hadas Kotek
  Speakers: Yasu Sudo and Hadas Kotek Date/Time: Monday, Mar 5, 5:30p Location: 32-D461 In this talk we will discuss our latest work on many and most. We will argue that the three readings of many that…Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 01:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 3/6 - Omer Preminger
  Speaker: Omer Preminger Title: Syntactic Ergativity in Q’anjob’al Date/Time: Tuesday, Mar 6, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 (Full paper available at LingBuzz.) Many morphologically ergative languages show asy…Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 01:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 3/7 - Peter Graff and Emad Taliep
  This Wednesday’s installment of the Phonology Circle features a talk by Peter Graff and Emad Taliep. They will also be presenting the same talk earlier in the day, at Wednesday 10am in TedLab. Speaker…Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 01:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Paper co-authored by Graff in Science!
  A new paper (a “technical comment”) has just appeared in Science, co-authored by Florian Jaeger (Rochester), Dan Pontillo (Rochester) and our own Peter Graff (5th-year grad student), entitled Comment…Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 3/8 - Guillaume Thomas
  Speaker: Guillaume Thomas Date/Time: Thursday Mar 8, 10:00AM-11:30AM Location: 32-D831 Title: Mbyá tense Abstract: Since I didn’t have time to address the main point of my work on tense in Mbyá during…Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 3/8 - Cristiano Chesi
  Speaker: Cristiano Chesi (NETS ‐ IUSS Pavia, CISCL ‐ University of Siena) Title: Top‐Down, Left‐Right Derivations Date/Time: Thursday, Mar 8, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 The full abstract is availab…Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Linguistics Colloquium 3/9 - Yosef Grodzinsky
  Speaker: Yosef Grodzinsky — McGill University Date/Time: Friday 3/9 3:30 pm Location: 32-141 Title: The Analysis of Negative Quantifiers: Multi-modal Evidence Abstract:   Recent discussion of  negativ…Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL lab meeting 2/27 - Ayaka Sugawara
  Title: Blocking Effects Reading Group Speaker: Ayaka Sugawara Date/Time: Monday, Feb 27, 5:30pm Location: 32-D461 Please join us for the first meeting of a short two-session reading group on morpholog…Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 01:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 2/28 - DaeYoung Sohn
  Speaker: DaeYoung Sohn Title: Word order restriction in a raising construction in a scrambling language. Date/Time: Tuesday February 28, 1:00-2:00pm Location: 32-D461 I will be discussing word order r…Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 01:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 2/29 — Youngah Do and Michael Kenstowicz
  The Phonology Circle will meet on Wednesday this semester, from 5–7 (except when otherwise announced). This week’s meeting with feature a talk by Youngah Do and Michael Kenstowicz. Title: Kyungsang Ko…Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 01:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 3/1 - Ayaka Sugawara
  Title: The English suffix -ish as a degree head Speaker: Ayaka Sugawara Date/Time: Thursday Mar 1, 10:00AM-11:30AM Location: 32-D831 In this talk, I would like to discuss the semantics of the English…Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 01:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 3/1 - Guillaume Thomas
  Speaker: Guillaume Thomas Title: The role of topic times in the computation of temporal implicatures: evidence from Mbyá. Date/Time: Thursday, Mar 1, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 (1) and (2) both ent…Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 01:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New book by Shigeru Miyagawa
  Today, February 27, is the publication date for Shigeru’s new book Case, Argument Structure and Word Order, in the Leading Linguists series published by Routledge. Here is a description of the book ……Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 2/21 - Karim Shoul
  Title: The Relationship Between Back and Front Articulations in Moroccan Arabic Speaker: Karim Shoul (CNRS) Date/Time: Tuesday, Feb 21, 5:30-7p Location: 32-D831 For this study, we considered /t/ and…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 01:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No ESSL meeting this week
  There will be no Experimental Syntax and Semantics lab meeting this week, due to Presidents’ Day. Join us next Monday (2/27) at 5:30 for the first meeting of a short two-session reading group in which…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 2/23 - Igor Yanovich
  Ling-Lunch returns this week at its usual time with a talk by Igor. Speaker: Igor Yanovich (MIT) Title: Modal hopes and fears: a diachronic case study Date/Time: Thursday, Feb 23, 12:30-1:45p Location…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT Linguistics in the New Yorker
  A recent New Yorker article on myths about “Brainstorming” end with a nice discussion of Building 20, and how linguistics got started at MIT. Our link will take you to the linguistics part of the arti…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How some people spent the 3-day weekend
  Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• And because Tuesday is a Monday…
  …there will be no Syntax Square this week. But next week, Syntax Square returns, with a presentation by DaeYoung Sohn. Watch for the announcement in the next Whamit!Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab organizational meeting
  The Experimental Syntax and Semantics lab is having its first lab meeting of the semester Monday at 5:30 pm, in the fourth floor seminar room, 32-D461. It will be primarily an organizational meeting a…Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle organizational meeting – Tues 2/14
  Phonology Circle resumes on Tuesday 2/14 at 5pm in 32D-831. (Please note the day and time!) We’ll have a brief organizational meeting in which we discuss scheduling for the remainder of the semester.…Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG organizational meeting - 2/16
  There will be a short organizational meeting for the LF Reading Group on 16 February (Thursday) at 10 am in 32-D831.Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Katz paper accepted
  Jonah Katz (PhD 2010), currently a post-doc at CNRS and the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, writes to us that his paper “Compression effects in English” has been accepted for publication by the Journal…Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Omer speaks!
  Omer Preminger gave a talk at New York University last Friday on “Agreement in Kichean and Zulu: Filtration vs. Strict Generativity”.Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The LSA makes it all official
  You heard it here first, when Irene was elected a 2012 Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.  But now it’s official: Congratulations, Irene!! This one’s now official too. UMass Amherst may clai…Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Linguistics Colloquium 2/10 - David Beaver
  Speaker: David Beaver (University of Texas, Austin) Time: Friday 2/10 3:30 PM Location: 32-141 Title: IT-constructions Abstract: Within the context of a broader project concerning what speakers take t…Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Michel Degraff an LSA delegate to AAAS
  Michel Degraff has been named one of two delegates from the Linguistic Society of America to the Science and Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Evidence of mitcho in Tübingen
  mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) will be presenting a paper on “The Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus” at Linguistic Evidence 2012 in Tübingen this week.Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Welcome back!
  Whamit! welcomes all the members of the MIT Linguistics community to the spring semester. The editorial staff consists of Adam Albright, Kai von Fintel, David Pesetsky, and student editors Michelle Fu…Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle resumes ***Tuesday 2/14***
  The Phonology Circle will resume its weekly meetings next Tuesday, 2/14 at 5pm, in 32-D831, with a brief planning meeting. (Please note the new time!)Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

NYU

• Violeta Vázquez-Rojas accepts position at El Colegio de México
  Violeta Vázquez-Rojas (PhD 2012) has just accepted a position at the Center for Linguistics and Literature Studies at El Colegio de México (more here in English). She will continue her research on Pur…Wed, 16 May 2012, 07:53 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Inna Livitz at FASL 21
  Inna Livitz is giving a talk on “Asymmetries of subject extraction from Russian infinitival clauses” at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, FASL 21, Bloomington, Indiana, May 10-13, 2012....Sun, 13 May 2012, 08:59 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Doug Bemis's dissertation defense
  Cheers to Doug Bemis (NYU Psychology), who successfully defended his dissertation on Simple Composition During Language Processing: An MEG Investigation. His committee chair was Liina Pylkkanen, and t…Thu, 10 May 2012, 08:56 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Kathryn Pruitt to join us next year
  We are pleased to welcome Kathryn Pruitt, who will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in our department in 2012-2013. Kathryn is currently finishing her dissertation at UMass Amherst....Wed, 9 May 2012, 05:17 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Ryan Bennett accepts job at Yale
  Ryan Bennett, a 2007 BA alum, has accepted a job as a phonologist at the Yale Linguistics department starting in the Fall of 2012. Congratulations, Ryan!...Tue, 8 May 2012, 03:43 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• And one more DURF grant
  Mikolaj (Nick) Znajkowski has won a Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund grant to go to the Kashubian-speaking area of Poland to investigate the influence of German, particularly German syntax, on Kashu…Fri, 4 May 2012, 08:23 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Three NYU linguistics students receive DURF grants
  Three of our linguistics majors have received the Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund grants for their research projects:...Thu, 3 May 2012, 01:55 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Renee Blake speaking at CREAL conference
  Renee Blake is giving a talk on A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the Classification of Blacks in the 21st Century at the inaugural conference on Racing Language, Languaging Race at the Center for Race…Thu, 3 May 2012, 10:10 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Gillian Gallagher featured in a Quechua podcast
  Gillian Gallagher is featured speaking in Quechua in the latest episode of rimasun, a Quechua language podcast put out by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). Hear it here: htt…Wed, 2 May 2012, 11:05 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Greg Guy and Suzanne Dikker spoke at the Museum of Natural History
  Suzanne Dikker, our recent PhD alumna and Greg Guy spoke at the American Museum of Natural History in Let's talk Creole last Sunday....Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 11:59 AM // blogs.nyu.edu

More

• NYU undergraduates at HULLS 2
  Steven Foley, Brianna Kaufman, and Jason Ostrove will be presenting papers at the upcoming HULLS 2 conference (Hunter Undergraduate Linguistics and Language Study Conference), on May 5th. The conferen…Sat, 28 Apr 2012, 09:41 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Jim Wood's dissertation defense
  Cheers to Jim Wood, who successfully defended his dissertation on Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure. The committee is Alec Marantz (chair), Chris Barker, Stephanie Harves, Richard S. Kayne…Sat, 28 Apr 2012, 09:04 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Myler and Leu present at Interfaces workshop
  Neil Myler and Tom Leu are among the presenters at a workshop entitled Exploring the Interfaces 1: Word Structure, which is taking place at McGill University May 6th-8th. Details from the program:...Thu, 26 Apr 2012, 12:21 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Chris Barker quoted in today's NY Times
  For a real-world application of Chris Barker's theory of clarity and vagueness, see Peter Ludlow's online commentary The Living Word....Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 10:35 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Undergraduate Research Conference news
  Four of our Linguistics majors presented at the 38th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, on April 13, 2012. Donna Kiessling won the award for best paper in her panel. Ruth Brillman, Having Argum…Tue, 17 Apr 2012, 04:48 AM // blogs.nyu.edu

Ottawa

• September 14, 2011
  Welcome to the second Hiatus of the semester! Please continue to email us your news: past or upcoming conference, awards, relevant workshops, new faculty in other departments or universities, new or o…Sun, 11 Sep 2011, 09:10 AM // hiatus.typepad.com
• Recent PhD defenses
  There has been a flurry of PhD defenses in our department in the past months. Here is a list of recent defenses, and slightly less recent but still pretty recent ones. Congratulations to everyone! Lad…Sat, 10 Sep 2011, 10:02 AM // hiatus.typepad.com
• Methods in Dialectology
  The University of Ottawa was well represented at the Methods in Dialectology XIV Conference and parallel workshop, Noveaux Corpus du Français Oral, that took place in London, Ontario, from August 2nd…Fri, 9 Sep 2011, 06:53 PM // hiatus.typepad.com
• EuroSla and Workshop on bilingualism
  Christie Brien has made a presentation at EuroSla (the annual conference of the European Second Language Association), hosted by Stockholm University from September 8-10. The title of her presentation…Fri, 9 Sep 2011, 09:34 AM // hiatus.typepad.com
• First colloquium this Friday! Kie Zuraw (UCLA)
  vendredi 16 septembre 2011 14h30-16h00 SMD428 Marginal contrasts in Tongan loanword phonology Kie Zuraw (UCLA), with Kathleen O'Flynn and Kaeli Ward Stress is normally predictable in Tongan (Polynesia…Thu, 8 Sep 2011, 06:43 AM // hiatus.typepad.com
• Errata
  In our earlier Hiatus we failed to report that Chris Delaney presented a poster entitled Acoustic and articulatory dimensions in sound patterns at UROP last spring. Sorry for the mistake!Wed, 7 Sep 2011, 06:44 PM // hiatus.typepad.com
• September 1 2011
  Hello everyone! Welcome to the first Hiatus of the semester! This is a long issue, with news that have accumulated over the summer. This year we hope to have many more (smaller) issues of Hiatus. Plea…Tue, 6 Sep 2011, 08:45 AM // hiatus.typepad.com
• Party!!!
  This year's beginning of the semester party will take place on Wednesday 14 at 12 o'clock in the Salon Monet. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. The department's beginning of the year party…Mon, 5 Sep 2011, 08:23 AM // hiatus.typepad.com
• Welcome Robert Truswell
  Robert Truswell is new professor in linguistics. Following the Hiatus tradition, we've asked him a few questions to get to know him better. Welcome to Ottawa! When I was growing up, I wanted to be....…Sun, 4 Sep 2011, 08:21 AM // hiatus.typepad.com
• Welcome to new students
  Many new graduate students will be joining our department (or continuing their studies) this Fall. Welcome to all of you! PhD students Abdulrahman Alamri, Saleh Alqahtani, Ekab Al-Shawashreh, Michele…Sat, 3 Sep 2011, 07:55 AM // hiatus.typepad.com

Rutgers

• In This Issue . . .
  February/March 2012 (Vol. 7, No. 5) News • Events • Who’s Doing WhatSat, 28 Apr 2012, 08:08 AM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Rutgers Goes to MACSIM
  A number of Rutgers graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty attended the second Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM 2) at the University of Maryland, on February 18. I…Sun, 8 Apr 2012, 02:45 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Dayal and Syrett accept editorial posts
  Veneeta Dayal has been appointed an Associate Editor of Linguistics and Philosophy, and Kristen Syrett has joined its Editorial Board.Sun, 8 Apr 2012, 02:30 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Department Events
  March 9, 10am:  RORG talk featuring Hope McManus Lardil Truncation and Augmentation 18 Seminary Place, room 108 March 23, 1:15pm–2:45pm:  ST@R/SURGE talk featuring Michäel Gagnon (UMD) D-type Theories…Sun, 8 Apr 2012, 02:18 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Other Events
  March 23, 3pm: RuCCS colloquium featuring John Ross (University of North-Texas, Dept. of Linguistics and Technical Communication) About Itself Psychology building, room 101 March 27, 1pm: RuCCS colloq…Sun, 8 Apr 2012, 02:11 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Publications by Our Linguists
  Jane Grimshaw. (2011) Deverbal Nominalization. In von Heusinger, Maienborn and Portner (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Volume 2. 1292–1313. De Gruyter Mouton.…Sun, 8 Apr 2012, 02:02 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Talks by Our Linguists
  Upcoming Talks Mark Baker, Ken Safir, and Justine Sikuku. Sources of (A)symmetry in Bantu Double Object Constructions. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics: University of California Santa Cruz,…Sun, 8 Apr 2012, 01:40 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• In This Issue . . .
  December 2011 / January 2012 (Vol. 7, No. 4) Events • Who’s Doing WhatSun, 12 Feb 2012, 06:00 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Department Events
  February 3, 12:45pm:  SURGE talk featuring Veneeta Dayal Another look at bare plurals 18 Seminary Place, room 108 February 3, 3pm–5pm:  ST@R talk featuring Ryan Denzer-King Complement clause types in…Sun, 12 Feb 2012, 05:45 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Other Events
  January 31, 12pm: RuCCS colloquium featuring Michael Anderson (Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Psychology; Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park) N…Sun, 12 Feb 2012, 05:30 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com

SFA

• De-stressing fun with Google Translate
  Floating around Facebook is a photo (as far as I can tell, Adam Port is the beginning of the sharing thread and so should be credited for this) that instructs you to copy and paste the following text…Tue, 8 May 2012, 08:18 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Written Language and Brain Processing
  A colleague shared the following article that appeared on Science Daily with me: Brain's Involvement in Processing Depends on Language's Graphic Symbols.In the article, researchers claim that Arabic t…Tue, 3 Apr 2012, 05:44 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Women as Linguistic Pioneers
  A colleague shared a link with me this morning from The New York Times for an article on linguistic innovation: They're Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve by Douglas Quenqua. The article focus…Tue, 28 Feb 2012, 06:39 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Spotlight on Linguistic Tools: Syntax Tree Generator
  A fellow linguist recently shared a link with me for another online tree-diagramming program--one that I think is definitely more user-friendly than the other online programs that I've tried out. It i…Sun, 26 Feb 2012, 06:46 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Linguistics, Science, and Critical Thinking
  In the urge to make sciences and critical thinking more fundamental in our education system, I hope administrators, curriculum writers, and teachers see the potential (and importance) of using linguis…Sat, 18 Feb 2012, 08:03 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Spotlight on Linguistic Tools: Linguistics Online Playgrounds
  Linguistics Online (or 'LiOn') is a website that was developed as an online supplement for linguistics students at Utrecht University. One of the components of the website is the Tool Playground; in t…Thu, 2 Feb 2012, 08:02 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Updated Ling Minor
  If you check out our Ling Minor page, you'll notice there are a few changes. We submitted this modified minor in August to the university. It is still awaiting state approval, but we wanted to update…Sun, 15 Jan 2012, 11:15 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Hardest Language to Learn?
  One of the first questions linguists get asked is What is the hardest language to learn? Or, to be quite honest, the question often comes out as What is the easiest language to learn? Either way, thou…Tue, 13 Dec 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• What the ....?
  The post title sums up my reaction to the first time I saw these two sentences, both of which are supposedly sentences in English:Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.James…Tue, 6 Dec 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
  What does it mean for a word to be beautiful? That question is what Robert Beard (Dr. Goodword) tackled when he compiled the list of the 100 most beautiful words in the English language.After looking…Wed, 30 Nov 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com

More

• Crazy Measurements
  Americans have long been the oddballs in the measurement world with our inability to accept the universal measurements like grams and meters, preferring instead our feet and inches and pounds. In fact…Tue, 22 Nov 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Conlanging, how I love thee
  Since I was a kid, invented languages have been near and dear to my heart; in fact, I attempted to invent my own language (with very little success) when I was young, and then I grew up to teach a cou…Thu, 17 Nov 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• British vs. American
  The other day I stumbled across the Best of British website, which provides a rather large list of British slang words defined for us Americans who don't know how to speak British. Some of the funnies…Tue, 15 Nov 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Let's verb that
  A poem has been floating around in cyberspace about the Verbing of America with examples of verbalized nouns. The point of the poem is to show how enigmatic our language is in selecting which nouns ca…Thu, 10 Nov 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• How linguists play telephone
  Do you remember that classic game of telephone that most of us played when we were younger? It's that game where one person starts by whispering a line into someone else's ear. It could be something l…Mon, 7 Nov 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Fun with punctuation?!
  I can't even say how happy the (nonstandard) interrobang makes me. Who knew punctuation could be so much fun‽Punctuation is only peripheral to the study of linguistics--punctuation is really just a st…Thu, 3 Nov 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• It's always the linguists...
  A few years ago, David Chess wrote what appears to be a blurb of a science-fiction type story, in which things are going wrong, and it can all be directly blamed on the linguists who taught a culture…Mon, 31 Oct 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Want a linguistic challenge?
  There is an annual International Linguistics Olympiad, and they are kind enough to share their problems with the public (once they've been used, that is). If you're up for a challenge, you can head ov…Thu, 27 Oct 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Psych's Last Night Gus
  On the latest episode of Psych, the main characters (Shawn and Gus) have the misfortune of finding themselves in a Hangover situation--they wake up one morning and can't remember anything that happene…Mon, 24 Oct 2011, 01:59 PM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• I have a lexicographical dream
  I came across this video on Ted the other day, which I label a sort of I have a lexicographical dream speech: Do I even need to say how much I adore Erin McKean after watching it? Students who've take…Mon, 24 Oct 2011, 07:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Must Read: Letters of Note
  On Wednesday, the Language Log had a post called Dejobbed, bewifed, and much childrenised that I absolutely adored. It was based on a post they had seen in the Letters of Note website--a website I had…Fri, 21 Oct 2011, 09:15 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Spotlight on Linguistic Tools: Two More Online IPA Keyboards
  I had previously talked about TypeIt's online IPA keyboard on this post. Since that post, the TypeIt keyboard now has an option for a full IPA keyboard, which is exciting for anyone who needs to type…Thu, 20 Oct 2011, 10:46 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• SpecGram Seeking Submissions
  One of my favorite ways to kill a little time while remaining linguistically active is perusing the Speculative Grammarian, an online journal for satirical linguistics. In other words, it's a journal…Wed, 21 Sep 2011, 03:39 PM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• "What Does English Sound Like to Foreign Ears?"
  A student sent me this link to a website that has a collection of fun linguistic-y videos, one of which is a video that has a hilarious rap (performed by Italians) that is supposed to be in English. W…Wed, 10 Aug 2011, 07:15 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Typography, Language, and Fun
  I have long been a fan of the written word, and artists are taking the written word to the next visual level in videos like these:If you liked that one, other videos like that can be found here.If you…Wed, 27 Jul 2011, 06:42 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com

SLA

• Call for workshops at 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute
  The 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute is currently soliciting proposals for workshops and conferences. If you've been thinking about a workshop you'd like to create, this would be a great opportunity.Sun, 20 May 2012, 05:19 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
  
• SLA Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
  On behalf of the SLA Executive Committee, I invite you to participate in this year’s Society for Linguistic Anthropology student essay prize competition for the best undergraduate paper in linguistic…Tue, 15 May 2012, 12:59 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• “Ordinary” language use
  In Lesbian bar talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo Hideko Abe shows how identity positions are constructed and claimed through language use. One passage, which shows how use of the word futsuu (ordinary) includes…Sun, 29 Apr 2012, 08:16 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• AAA elections open through 31 May
  Elections for AAA, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, and other sections are open from 15 April until 31 May, 2012. Log in at www.aaanet.org with your username and password and click Vote Now.Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 04:52 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• AAA and SLA election candidates
  The candidates for AAA and SLA positions, as listed in Anthropology NewsThu, 5 Apr 2012, 05:37 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• Truth and narrative
  Recent news events highlight relationships between fact and story telling. Ethan Zuckerman's recent ruminations on activism and journalism provide a summary and synthesis of one set of ideas, and a pi…Sun, 1 Apr 2012, 09:00 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• Calls for papers at LINGANTH
  With abstracts for the 2012 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting coming due soon, various SLA members have sent out calls for papers. Here is a list of recent calls sent out via LINGANT…Wed, 14 Mar 2012, 11:34 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• Wikipedia and the Academy
  Barbara Johnstone (2011) Making Pittsburghese and Timothy Messer-Kruse (2012) The 'undue weight' of truth on Wikipedia present very different views of scholar's experiences with Wikipedia. Johnstone's…Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 10:12 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• SLA Call for Application/Registration Waivers
  The SLA is calling for applications for registration waivers for participants in next year’s Annual Meetings in San Francisco. The SLA will have one waiver to allocate and can compete for additional w…Thu, 1 Mar 2012, 08:59 AM // linguisticanthropology.org
• Gaelic-medium education outcomes in Scotland – Stuart Dunmore
  Stuart Dunmore (U Edinburgh) introduces his research on the life trajectories of adults who were educated in Gaelic. He seeks to discover how such former students engage with the language today. This…Tue, 28 Feb 2012, 04:48 PM // linguisticanthropology.org

Stanford

• Anttila in P&P Workshop
  Come to the Greenberg Room at noon today to join Arto Anttila in the Phonetics & Phonology Workshop. He will be speaking on “Quantity alternations in Dagaare” (abstract below). In other P&P news, this…Fri, 18 May 2012, 01:10 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Look Who’s Talking
  It seems that Paul Kiparsky has been everywhere this quarter, but this week he will be a little closer to home. He’ll be presenting tomorrow at Berkeley’s 31’s “East Coast” Indo-European Conference on…Fri, 18 May 2012, 01:05 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Kudos
  Olga Dmitrieva and Uriel Cohen Priva successfully presented their dissertation orals this past week. Roey Gafter has received a Graduate Research Opportunity and a Diversity Dissertation Research Oppo…Fri, 18 May 2012, 01:00 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Schnoebelen’s Dissertation Monday
  The Linguistics Department is pleased to announce that Tyler Schnoebelen will be presenting his dissertation oral on Monday at 10:30am in Wallenberg (160)-323. Come hear his presentation, entitled “Em…Fri, 18 May 2012, 12:55 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Final Fieldwork Meeting for the Year
  Vera writes: There will be one last fieldwork meeting for the year next Tuesday, 5/22, 12-1 in the Greenberg room. We’ll use this last meeting to have a casual discussion about next year’s field metho…Fri, 18 May 2012, 12:40 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Collins in Tuesday’s SMircle
  James Collins will be presenting in Tuesday’s SMircle meeting. Come to the Greenberg room at 4:45 to hear his talk, entitled “Accusative in an Ergative Language: The Samoan Case System” Generative ana…Fri, 18 May 2012, 12:35 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Hewitt and Math’s Self-proof
  Come to the Stanford CS Logic Lunch on May 23 at 12:15 in Gates 260 to hear Carl Hewitt give the following seminar: “Mathematics self-proves its own Consistency (contra Gödel et. al.) That mathematics…Fri, 18 May 2012, 12:30 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• You know the Economy’s Bad when…
  I received a Pre-Declined credit card in the mail today. Exxon and Mobil just laid off 25 Congressmen. I saw a Mormon Polygamist with ONLY one wife. McDonald’s is now selling the “1/4 Ouncer”. Angelin…Fri, 18 May 2012, 12:25 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu

Sydney

• Unveiling the new and improved ELAC
  This blog is now well into its fifth year and in all that time, not much has changed (apart from the new 'look' which was imposed on us from above). But a major development has now taken place: we hav…Thu, 10 Feb 2011, 03:42 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• LSA 2011 Sessions on Metadata in Language Documentation and Description - Peter K. Austin
  [ from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS] 21 January 2011 At the recent annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Pittsburgh Jeff Good of University at Buffalo and I organised…Sat, 22 Jan 2011, 07:21 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Small and strong - Peter K. Austin
  [ from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS] 5th January 2011 Alongside all the talk about Last Speakers and loss of particular endangered languages, it is important to remember that not all t…Wed, 5 Jan 2011, 02:35 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Happy Anniversary - Peter K. Austin
  [ from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS] 3rd January 2011 Today marks the 20th anniversary of a symposium on Endangered Languages and their Preservation that was held on the 3rd January 19…Mon, 3 Jan 2011, 03:40 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Endangered genres - Peter K. Austin
  [ from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS] 02 December 2010 [ update 6/12/2010: some missing links now added ] It is by now well known that around half (or possibly more) of the world's 7,00…Sun, 5 Dec 2010, 04:24 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Free and open - Peter K. Austin
  [From Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS] 30 November 2010 In commenting on a recent blog post of mine about SOAS publication plans, Nick Thieberger raises a number of relevant and important…Thu, 2 Dec 2010, 03:46 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Good on you LTU! - Peter K. Austin
  [ from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS ] 24 November 2010 I have a soft spot for La Trobe University (LTU) in Australia. LTU is where I got my first tenured job 30 years ago (just over tw…Sat, 27 Nov 2010, 10:44 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• SOAS publication plans - Peter K. Austin
  [ from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS ] 22 November 2010 This month the eighth volume of Language Documentation and Description (LDD8) hit the streets (you can order it at a 25% discount…Fri, 26 Nov 2010, 04:13 AM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• The public wavelength - Peter K. Austin
  [Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS ] 21 November 2010 At this year's American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting that winds up in New Orleans today, Jeremy Sabloff, President…Tue, 23 Nov 2010, 04:03 AM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Consortium on Training in Language Documentation and Conservation (CTLDC)
  I recently attended a symposium titled Models for capacity development in language documentation and conservation hosted by ILCAA at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. The symposium brought toge…Thu, 18 Nov 2010, 02:18 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au

More

• New book 'Re-awakening languages'
  [ Forwarded by John Hobson] Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages Edited by John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch and Michael Walsh Syd…Wed, 17 Nov 2010, 03:40 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Honours theses
  Around Australia, honours degrees are under threat from academic administrators who see them as resource-intensive and fee-sparse. Often terrific work is done in honours theses. But this work often do…Sun, 7 Nov 2010, 10:58 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• No more Ngarla - Peter K. Austin
  [from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS ] 4 November 2010 Friday this week (5th November 2010) marks a sad day for Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara region of Western Australia with the f…Thu, 4 Nov 2010, 05:21 AM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Alive & Digital event in New York - Peter K. Austin
  [ from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS ] 27th October 2010 The Trace Foundation is a New York based non-profit non-government organisation that has been working with Tibetan communities i…Sat, 30 Oct 2010, 06:45 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au
• Vaarwel, adieu, farvel, addio, farewell Michael
  It was very sad to learn* of the death of the linguist Michael Clyne. He will be remembered for his original work on the immigrant languages of Australia, on sociolinguistics (pragmatics, language con…Fri, 29 Oct 2010, 05:56 PM // blogs.usyd.edu.au

Toronto

• Congratulations, Joanna and John!
  Congratulations to Joanna Chociej (PhD 3) and John Latta, who were married at St. Casimir's Church on May 12, 2012! The ceremony was attended by a number of U of T linguists, present and past, and an…Fri, 18 May 2012, 01:50 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Skill Share Workshop
  This year the LGCU applied for the Dean's Small Departments' Projects Fund and was awarded a grant to hold Skill Share Workshops! These workshops are intended to provide an opportunity for our graduat…Fri, 18 May 2012, 01:50 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Graduating Majors & Specialists - Spring 2012
  Undergraduate Coordinator Elaine Gold and Interim Chair Diane Massam withgraduating Linguistics students at the annual department lunch  honouringstudents who have completed a Major or Specialist prog…Tue, 15 May 2012, 11:37 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Heritage Language Conference
  U of T was quite well represented at the recent Conference on Formal Approaches to Heritage Languages, held at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Marina Sherkina-Lieber, Nelleke Strik (now at Da…Fri, 11 May 2012, 01:44 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• English-Inuktitut Automatic Speech-to-speech Machine Translation
  Kinfe Mengistu, a post-doc in Computer Science, and Richard Compton, PhD candidate in Linguistics, won the best paper award at the 2012 Conference on Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND 2012) for…Mon, 7 May 2012, 11:25 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• End of Term Parties!
  Last week we celebrated the end of another successful term and year! This year has been a particularly busy year, so we had lots to celebrate! Tanya Slavin, Bettina Spreng, Elham Rohany Rahbar, Monica…Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 01:34 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Canadian Language Museum opening
  The opening of the exhibit Canadian English, eh went extremely well, and there was this picture in the U of T bulletin yesterday.  Wed, 4 Apr 2012, 08:58 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Debating contrast
  This is a link to a lively and interesting debate on contrast in phonology by Elan Dresher and Andrew Nevins held at Leiden Feb. 2012.  (Click posting title for link.)Wed, 4 Apr 2012, 05:48 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Ed's bench under the sakura blossoms
  Alana provides this lovely picture of the Edward N. Burstynsky (1935-2007) memorial bench, in full glory with the cherry blossomsTue, 3 Apr 2012, 09:17 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Fêting Elan
  We fêted Elan, who retired in December 2011, at a party during MOT on March 9, 2012.Elan Dresher, guest of honour, examines the present that the department gave him - a Chieftain Irish whistle.Many th…Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 08:33 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com

More

• Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics 2012
  Tiffany writes:The Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics, the first North American conference devoted to Cantonese Linguistics, was held at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. ROP299…Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 01:34 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• NWAV40 (2011)
  NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) celebrated its 40th birthday this year in its birthplace, Georgetown University in Washington, DC.  Many of us made the trek down to present and to partake of th…Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 04:57 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Undergraduate Research
  Linguistics students Victoria Peter and Lianna Wang (ROP299 with Diane Massam) and Tiffany Chung and Josephine Tong (ROP299 with Naomi Nagy) and Jingwei Chen, Julia Chin and Ruth Maddeaux (ROP399 with…Wed, 14 Mar 2012, 02:24 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Lounging
  Students learn and teach in the Department Lounge.Nadia and Beth talk phonology while Ailis sorts papers. (Photo credits: Matt Gardner)Smiling sociolinguists: Samantha, Shannon and Erin study their da…Thu, 8 Mar 2012, 09:52 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• TULCon 2012
  The Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUGS) at the University of Toronto will be hosting its annual Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCon) March 2-4, 2012!While only under…Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 06:04 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Good News from Recent Graduates!
  Jaehee Bak (PhD 2011) was selected as a Post-doctoral Fellow at SungKyunKwan University in Seoul. (This is where he received his BA.) He will be affiliated with the Academy of East Asian Studies at Su…Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 07:40 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• New baby Atom
  Nattaya Piriyawiboon (PhD 2010) and her husband, Tom Toyou, welcomed their first newborn on Jan 26 at 5.09 pm!Welcome, Baby Atom!Tue, 31 Jan 2012, 09:48 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Season's greetings from India
  Alexei Kochetov is sending his season's greetings from Mysore, India, where he is currently a visiting scholar at the All-India Institute ofSpeech and Hearing (AIISH). He recently went on a trip to Ni…Fri, 16 Dec 2011, 07:40 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• 50th anniversary of Linguistics at MIT
  Cristina, Yoonjung and Diane went to MIT50 (Dec 9-11 2011), the 50th anniversary of Linguistics at MIT.Tue, 13 Dec 2011, 07:36 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• 2011 Convocation
  November 11th saw a wonderful SGS convocation, with a record number of linguistics MA and PhD graduates. Not everyone could attend but here are some photos of those who did: Elise, Holly, James, Maddi…Sun, 13 Nov 2011, 06:47 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Brittani's Bermudian research gets attention back home
  [photo credit: bermuda‑vacations.jpg]Britanni Fubler wants anyone interested in how Islanders speak to attend ‘How You Hanlin’ Me? A Presentation on the Lexical, Phonological and Phonetic Properties o…Tue, 25 Oct 2011, 09:59 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Keren officially awarded the Killam prize
  Wed, 12 Oct 2011, 12:58 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Toronto Babel In the Star!
  Our very own Beth MacLeod has been organising Toronto Babel, a language exchange night at the Rivoli on Queen St., for almost two years now.  Today, the Toronto Star ran a story about it: http://www.t…Tue, 11 Oct 2011, 07:23 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Research up North
  Sali was in the Toronto Star describing some outcomes of her latest research project. Thanks to Chandan for sending this in.Thu, 29 Sep 2011, 04:58 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Clearing the mind
  Last weekend, I managed to work out my plan of attack for a SSHRC grant while hiking in a beautiful park with an unlikely name: Mono Cliffs. It boasts over 400 kinds of plants and, while I didn't stop…Sat, 24 Sep 2011, 02:47 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com

UC Davis

• UC Davis to Host Spanish in the US Conference
  Mon, 14 Feb 2011, 12:21 PM // linguistics.ucdavis.edu
• Vineeta Chand: Appointed to Faculty of University of Essex
  Mon, 14 Feb 2011, 12:20 PM // linguistics.ucdavis.edu

UCSC

• JEREMY O’BRIEN DEFENDS HIS DISSERTATION FRIDAY
  Jeremy O’Brien will defend his dissertation, “An Experimental Approach to Debuccalization and Supplementary Gestures”, this Friday, May 25th, at 4:00 pm, in the Humanities 1 Building, Room 210. All a…Sun, 20 May 2012, 04:39 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
  
• HONORS IN THE LANGUAGE STUDIES AND LINGUISTICS MAJORS
  Many congratulations to the following five students graduating this quarter, who were awarded honors in the major. Well done! Language Studies Kathy Bravo Dana Goodman Nastassja Myer Linguistics Kels…Sun, 20 May 2012, 04:38 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
  
• ALLAN SCHWADE FEATURED IN UCSC NEWS
  The recent Graduate Research Symposium is the topic of this UCSC news item. Our own Allan Schwade, who won the Dean’s Award for the Humanities Division entries, is prominently featured. Well done, Al…Sun, 20 May 2012, 04:37 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
  
• COLLOQUIUM BY LISA DAVIDSON THIS FRIDAY
  There will be a colloquium by Lisa Davidson (New York University) this Friday, May 18th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “An investigation of hiatus (non-)resolution i…Mon, 14 May 2012, 06:19 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• A GOOD WEEK FOR MARK NORRIS
  Many congratulations to Mark Norris, who received two honors last week. First, Mark is our department’s winner of the UCSC Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award this year. Second, Mark is one of two H…Mon, 14 May 2012, 06:18 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• GRANT MCGUIRE SPEAKS IN GERMANY
  Grant McGuire recently gave a talk at the Second Conference on Sound Change in Kloster-Seeon, in Bavaria, Germany, where he presented a paper “Imitation as a mechanism for the spread of sound change”…Mon, 14 May 2012, 06:18 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• MATT TUCKER WRITES ABOUT WCCFL
  Following up on our department’s recent hosting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Matt Tucker has published an informative account of the conference for the Institute for Hu…Mon, 14 May 2012, 06:18 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• UCSC GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM LAST FRIDAY
  The university’s 8th annual Graduate Research Symposium took place last friday. Linguistics is proud to have been represented by 4 students: STRESS AND ONSET SENSITIVITY IN MADIMADI (Poster) Anna Gre…Mon, 14 May 2012, 06:18 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• COLLOQUIUM BY DOMINIQUE SPORTICHE CANCELLED
  This Friday’s colloquium by Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) has been cancelled.Mon, 7 May 2012, 04:56 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• RYAN BENNETT TO JOIN THE FACULTY OF YALE
  Ryan Bennett has accepted an offer to join the faculty of the Linguistics Department at Yale University, starting this Fall. Ryan will become the 10th faculty member in the Yale Linguistics Departmen…Mon, 7 May 2012, 04:55 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu