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• Clouds in the head: New model of brain's thought processes
  A new model of the brain's thought processes explains the apparently chaotic activity patterns of individual neurons. They do not correspond to a simple stimulus/response linkage, but arise from the n…Tue, 21 May 2013, 07:54 AM // sciencedaily.com
• How bilinguals switch between languages
  Individuals who learn two languages at an early age seem to switch back and forth between separate sound systems for each language, according to new research. The research addresses enduring questions…Mon, 20 May 2013, 01:38 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Brain makes call on which ear is used for cell phone
  If you're a left-brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear, according to a newly published study. The study shows a strong correlation between bra…Thu, 16 May 2013, 01:16 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Brain frontal lobes not sole center of human intelligence, comparative research suggests
  Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain's frontal lobes, say researchers. Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in humans and other species has determined tha…Mon, 13 May 2013, 12:28 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Grammar errors? The brain detects them even when you are unaware
  Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but neuroscientists have now captured elusive hard evidence that people indeed detect and process g…Mon, 13 May 2013, 10:15 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Laughter perception networks in brain different for mocking, joyful or ticklish laughter
  A laugh may signal mockery, humor, joy or simply be a response to tickling, but each kind of laughter conveys a wealth of auditory and social information. These different kinds of laughter also spark…Wed, 8 May 2013, 02:21 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Brain anatomy of dyslexia is not the same in men and women, boys and girls
  Using MRI, neuroscientists have found significant differences in brain anatomy when comparing men and women with dyslexia to their non-dyslexic control groups. Their study is the first to directly com…Wed, 8 May 2013, 10:18 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Ice Age ancestors might have used words in common with us
  New research shows that Ice Age people living in Europe 15,000 years ago might have used forms of some common words including I, you, we, man and bark, that in some cases could still be recognized tod…Tue, 7 May 2013, 04:46 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Don't txt n drive: Teens not getting msg: 43 percent of youths admit to texting while driving
  Teens can get hundreds of text messages a day, but one message they aren't getting is that they shouldn't text and drive. Nearly 43 percent of high school students of driving age who were surveyed in…Sat, 4 May 2013, 01:33 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Monkey math: Baboons show brain's ability to understand numbers
  Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less…Fri, 3 May 2013, 10:27 AM // sciencedaily.com

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• Early intervention found cost effective through school years
  The Early Start Denver Model, a comprehensive behavioral early intervention program that is appropriate for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as young as 12 months, has been found to reduce…Wed, 1 May 2013, 08:28 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Encountering connections may make life feel more meaningful
  Experiencing connections, regularities, and coherence in their environment may lead people to feel a greater sense of meaning in life, according to a new study.Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 12:16 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Musical memory deficits start in auditory cortex
  Congenital amusia is a disorder characterized by impaired musical skills, which can extend to an inability to recognize very familiar tunes. The neural bases of this deficit are now being deciphered.…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 10:13 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Happiness: There’s an app for that; Boston bombings unhappiest day in five years, new sensor shows
  The day of the Boston Marathon was the saddest day in nearly 5 years of observations by a team of scientists from the University of Vermont and The MITRE Corporation. For the first time, results from…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 10:11 AM // sciencedaily.com
• How we decode 'noisy' language in daily life: How people rationally interpret linguistic input
  Suppose you hear someone say, The man gave the ice cream the child. Does that sentence seem plausible? Or do you assume it is missing a word? Such as: The man gave the ice cream to the child. People u…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 01:49 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Reading wordless storybooks to toddlers may expose them to richer language
  Researchers have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to a picture-vocabulary book.Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 01:48 PM // sciencedaily.com
• New hope for Autistic children who never learn to speak
  Scientists are showing that while not all of the current interventions used to improve language among Autistic children are effective, there is real hope for progress by using interventions based on u…Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 07:25 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Body size conveyed by voice determines vocal attractiveness
  Deep male voices and high-pitched female voices are perceived as more attractive because listeners gauge the speaker's body size from the frequency of their voice, according to new research.Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 03:51 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Clenching right fist may give better grip on memory
  Clenching your right hand may help form a stronger memory of an event or action, and clenching your left may help you recollect the memory later, according to new research.Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 03:51 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Intractable seizures halted with experimental treatment for rare pediatric 'Pretzel syndrome'
  With a better understanding of underlying mechanisms that cause a rare neurodevelopmental disorder in the Old Order Mennonite population, referred to as Pretzel syndrome, a new study reports that five…Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 01:09 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Learning disabilities affect up to 10 percent of children
  Up to 10 percent of the population are affected by specific learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and autism, translating to 2 or 3 pupils in every classroom, according to a new review.Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 11:23 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Role-playing game brings new life to a 'dead' language
  In one Latin class, students learn Latin playing heroes from Graeco-Roman myth — bringing a ‘dead’ language to life through a role-playing game. The application of game theory in the classroom can be…Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 07:42 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Scientists pinpoint brain's area for numeral recognition
  Scientists have determined the precise anatomical coordinates of a brain hot spot, measuring only about one-fifth of an inch across, that is preferentially activated when people view the ordinary nume…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 03:00 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Language instruction improved with fun and games
  Playing simple games using words and pictures can help people to learn a new language with greater ease, researchers have shown.Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 05:53 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Reactivating memories during sleep: Memory rehearsal during sleep can make a big difference in remembering later
  Why do some memories last a lifetime while others disappear quickly? A new study suggests that memories rehearsed, during sleep or waking, can have an impact on memory consolidation and on what is rem…Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 10:24 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Bad behavior in kids with hearing implants doesn't predict slowed language development
  A new study is challenging a long held belief among speech therapists and audiologists that bad behavior in young children with hearing implants is an indicator of device failure and a predictor of po…Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 05:42 AM // sciencedaily.com
• What happens in the brain to make music rewarding?
  A new study reveals what happens in our brain when we decide to purchase a piece of music when we hear it for the first time. The study pinpoints the specific brain activity that makes new music rewar…Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 11:30 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Different brains have similar responses to music
  Do the brains of different people listening to the same piece of music actually respond in the same way? An imaging study says the answer is yes, which may in part explain why music plays such a big r…Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 04:57 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Subconscious mental categories help brain sort through everyday experiences
  Researchers found that the brain breaks experiences into the events, or related groups that help us mentally organize the day's many situations, using subconscious mental categories it creates. These…Wed, 10 Apr 2013, 11:15 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Young children have grammar and chimpanzees don't
  A new study has shown that children as young as two understand basic grammar rules when they first learn to speak and are not simply imitating adults. The study also applied the same statistical analy…Wed, 10 Apr 2013, 10:13 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Rare primate's vocal lip-smacks share features of human speech
  The vocal lip-smacks that geladas use in friendly encounters have surprising similarities to human speech, according to a new study. The geladas, which live only in the mountains of Ethiopia, are the…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 09:31 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Non-invasive mapping helps to localize language centers before brain surgery
  A new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique may provide neurosurgeons with a non-invasive tool to help in mapping critical areas of the brain before surgery, reports a new study.Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 09:23 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Shift of language function to right hemisphere impedes post-stroke aphasia recovery
  In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language function to right hemisphe…Thu, 4 Apr 2013, 09:19 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Language by mouth and by hand
  Humans favor speech as the primary means of linguistic communication. Spoken languages are so common many think language and speech are one and the same. But the prevalence of sign languages suggests…Wed, 3 Apr 2013, 05:02 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Speaking a tonal language (such as Cantonese) primes the brain for musical training
  Non-musicians who speak tonal languages may have a better ear for learning musical notes, according to researchers.Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 03:26 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Personalized brain mapping technique preserves function following brain tumor surgery
  In a new paper, researchers review research showing that this ability to visualize relevant white matter tracts during glioma resection surgeries can improve accuracy.Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 09:09 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Teachers' gestures boost math learning
  Students perform better when their instructors use hand gestures -- a simple teaching tool that could yield benefits in higher-level math such as algebra.Fri, 29 Mar 2013, 09:51 AM // sciencedaily.com
• In solving social dilemmas, vervet monkeys get by with a little patience
  People could learn a lot from vervet monkeys. When vervets need to work together, they don't tell each other what to do or punish uncooperative behavior. But according to new evidence, they do get by,…Thu, 28 Mar 2013, 09:50 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Multiple moves found harmful to poor young children
  Poor children who move three or more times before age five have more behavior problems than their peers, according to a longitudinal, representative study of children born in 20 large US cities betwee…Thu, 28 Mar 2013, 05:02 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Prekindergarten program boosts children's skills
  Boston Public Schools' prekindergarten program is substantially improving children's readiness to start kindergarten, according to a new study of more than 2,000 children enrolled there. The program u…Thu, 28 Mar 2013, 05:02 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Language used in immigration debates may be as important as the policies
  The language activists and politicians use in immigration debates may be as important as the policies they are debating when it comes to long-term effects, according to the author of a new study in th…Thu, 28 Mar 2013, 04:55 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Researchers scoring a win-win with novel set of concussion diagnostic tools
  Scientists have developed a tablet-based testing system that captures the voice of an individual and analyzes the speech for signs of a potential concussion anytime, anywhere, in real-time.Tue, 26 Mar 2013, 12:11 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Philadelphia shifts to a Northern accent
  The traditional Southern inflections associated with the Philadelphia regional accent are increasingly being displaced by Northern influences. A recent study documents this trend through an analysis o…Tue, 26 Mar 2013, 07:15 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Language acquisition: Nouns before verbs?
  Researchers are digging deeper into whether infants' ability to learn new words is shaped by the language being acquired. A new study cites a promising new research agenda aimed at bringing researcher…Mon, 25 Mar 2013, 03:40 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Fear factor increases, emotions decrease in books written in last 50 years
  The use of words with emotional content in books has steadily decreased throughout the last century, according to new research. The emotional content of published English has been steadily decreasing…Wed, 20 Mar 2013, 06:28 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Robot-delivered speech and physical therapy a success
  In one of the earliest experiments using a humanoid robot to deliver speech and physical therapy to a stroke patient, researchers saw notable speech and physical therapy gains and significant improvem…Wed, 20 Mar 2013, 06:26 PM // sciencedaily.com
• 'Brain waves' challenge area-specific view of brain activity
  Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas – when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research shows that this view may be overly rigid. The ent…Wed, 20 Mar 2013, 08:51 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Face of the future rears its head: Digital talking head expresses human emotions on demand
  Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with unprecedented realism and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction.Tue, 19 Mar 2013, 01:00 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Similar neuro outcomes in preterm infants with low-grade brain bleeding as infants with no bleeding
  A new study suggests that preterm infants with a low-grade bleeding in the brain may have similar neurodevelopmental outcomes as infants with no bleeding.Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 10:30 AM // sciencedaily.com
• How can we stlil raed words wehn teh lettres are jmbuled up?
  Researchers have taken an important step towards understanding how the human brain 'decodes' letters on a page to read a word. The work will help psychologists unravel the subtle thinking  mechanisms…Fri, 15 Mar 2013, 04:46 AM // sciencedaily.com
• New research discovers the emergence of Twitter 'tribes'
  Linguists have found evidence of how people form into tribe-like communities on social network sites such as Twitter.Thu, 14 Mar 2013, 05:50 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Garbled text messages may be the only symptoms of stroke
  Difficulty or inability to write a coherent text message, even in patients who have no problem speaking, may become a vital tool in diagnosing a type of crippling stroke, according to new research.Thu, 14 Mar 2013, 05:49 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Hiding secret messages in email jokes
  It is possible to hide secret messages in simple jokes, according to new research.Tue, 12 Mar 2013, 10:49 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Mom's sensitivity helps language development in children with hearing loss
  Psychologists demonstrate the impact sensitive parenting has on language growth for children who receive cochlear implants.Fri, 8 Mar 2013, 07:34 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Solving the 'Cocktail Party Problem': How we can focus on one speaker in noisy crowds
  In the din of a crowded room, paying attention to just one speaker's voice can be challenging. Research demonstrates how the brain homes in on one speaker to solve this Cocktail Party Problem. Researc…Wed, 6 Mar 2013, 10:42 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Help in reading foreign languages
  Recent research into how we learn is set to help people in their efforts to read a second or foreign language (SFL) more effectively. This will be good news for those struggling to develop linguistic…Wed, 6 Mar 2013, 05:39 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Mental picture of others can be seen using fMRI, finds new study
  It is possible to tell who a person is thinking about by analyzing images of his or her brain. Our mental models of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using adva…Tue, 5 Mar 2013, 06:10 AM // sciencedaily.com
• Brain adds cells in puberty to navigate adult world
  The brain adds new cells during puberty to help navigate the complex social world of adulthood, neuroscientists report.Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 12:18 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Why your brain tires when exercising
  For the first time ever, a research team is able to explain why our brains feel tired when we exercise. By mapping the mechanism behind so-called central fatigue, the researchers are hoping, among oth…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 12:18 PM // sciencedaily.com
• Speech emerges in children on the autism spectrum with severe language delay at greater rate than previously thought
  Study could reveals key predictors of speech gains. New findings reveal that 70 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who have a history of severe language delay, achieved phrase or…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 07:49 AM // sciencedaily.com

Scientific American

• Google CEO s Condition Spotlights Vocal Cord Paralysis and Its Treatment
  When Google CEO Larry Page blogged about his struggles speaking and, at times, breathing last week on his Google+ page he spotlighted a rare condition, bilateral vocal cord paralysis , which leaves su…Wed, 22 May 2013, 05:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
  
• Speed Dating Study Yields Conversation Keys
  Speed dating is a popular way to find love. But how can you make a good impression in just a few minutes? [More] Tue, 14 May 2013, 02:13 PM // rss.sciam.com
• Twitter Reveals Language Geographic Distribution
  About six million people worldwide post to Twitter, producing some 650,000 new tweets daily. And one percent of these posts include geographic locations. The combination of language and location has a…Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 05:42 PM // rss.sciam.com
• The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens
  In a viral YouTube video from October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad's touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons. In the following scenes she appears to pinch, swipe and prod…Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 05:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Deciphering the Program of the World's First Computer [Video]
  Tune-in to PBS at 9pm tonight to watch NOVA 's latest episode about a mysterious machine found buried on the sea floor. Discovered off the coast of a tiny Mediterranean Island inside a 2000-year old s…Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 10:00 PM // rss.sciam.com
• Let's Get Physical: The Psychology of Effective Workout Music
  “I dare them to find the iPod on me,” Richie Sais told the New York Times in 2007, when he was preparing to run the Marine Corps Marathon. USA Track & Field, the national governing body for distance r…Wed, 20 Mar 2013, 05:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health
  Does the language we speak determine how healthy and rich we will be? New research by Keith Chen of Yale Business School suggests so. The structure of languages affects our judgments and decisions abo…Tue, 19 Mar 2013, 07:45 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Studying Languages Can Grow the Brain
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• Geneticists Estimate Publication Date of The Iliad
  This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service . [More] Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 07:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Step Inside the Real World of Compulsive Hoarders
  If you had opened the front door of Lee Shuer's apartment in the early 2000s, you would have encountered a narrow hallway made even narrower by all kinds of random stuff: unnervingly tall stacks of bo…Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 03:00 AM // rss.sciam.com

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• The Origin of Human Creativity Was Surprisingly Complex (preview)
  Unsigned and undated, inventory number 779 hangs behind thick glass in the Louvre's brilliantly lit Salle des États. A few minutes after the stroke of nine each morning, except for Tuesdays when the m…Tue, 19 Feb 2013, 11:40 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Three-Year-Olds Know Better
  Next time a three-year-old tells you what to do you might want to listen. Because three-year-olds can recognize when we adults are doing something counterproductive and are keen to help us find a bett…Sun, 17 Feb 2013, 09:00 PM // rss.sciam.com
• What Are Dogs Saying When They Bark? [Excerpt]
  Excerpt from The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think , by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. Published by Dutton, a Member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. © 2013 Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods.…Fri, 8 Feb 2013, 11:20 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Researchers Take a Closer Look at the Most Common and Powerful Triggers of Depression
  Like a sudden forest fire with no traceable origin, depression often flares up for no apparent reason. Sometimes, though, one can identify a catalyst--the lightning bolt that delivered the spark. On i…Thu, 7 Feb 2013, 04:30 AM // rss.sciam.com
• The Brilliance of the Dog Mind
  Just about every dog owner is convinced their dog is a genius. For a long time, scientists did not take their pronouncements particularly seriously, but new research suggests that canines are indeed q…Tue, 5 Feb 2013, 04:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• We Are What We Smell
  Pheromones: they’re those chemical signals often associated with attraction. But there are many chemical signals we give off--including ones that might signal alarm, aggression or other emotions. [Mor…Sat, 2 Feb 2013, 09:00 PM // rss.sciam.com
• Coffee Boosts Recognition of Positive Words
  A lot of people just don’t feel quite human without that morning cup of coffee. Now a study finds that the enhanced sense of well-being that caffeine can cause is reflected in our perception of words.…Tue, 29 Jan 2013, 09:00 PM // rss.sciam.com
• The Newest Edition of Psychiatry s Bible, the DSM-5, Is Complete
  For more than 11 years, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has been laboring to revise the current version of its best-selling guidebook, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disord…Mon, 28 Jan 2013, 04:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Successful Salespeople Have Moderate Temperaments
  Store managers and psychologists have long believed that outgoing individuals make the best salespeople. Yet research now suggests that extroverts are actually less successful at making sales than peo…Sun, 27 Jan 2013, 05:00 AM // rss.sciam.com
• Recommended: Animal Wise (preview)
  Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures [More] Fri, 25 Jan 2013, 11:00 AM // rss.sciam.com

New Scientist

• String theory may limit space brain threat
  Hypothetical conscious entities that randomly pop into existence may undermine our view of the universe – string theory may banish these Boltzmann brains    Wed, 22 May 2013, 11:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
  
• Psychiatry today
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• Strange thoughts
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• Reality check
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• Consciousness: Watching your mind in action
  We no longer have to wonder what self-awareness looks like, says neuroscientist Daniel Bor – now we can see for ourselves    Wed, 22 May 2013, 08:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
  
• Tracing the roots of human morality in animals
  The Bonobo and the Atheist and How Animals Grieve show that we must be careful when studying animals to learn about the origins of human traits and behaviours    Tue, 21 May 2013, 07:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• B vitamins may slow the advance of Alzheimer's
  Vitamin supplements seem to prevent atrophy of brain regions such as the hippocampus, which waste away in people with Alzheimer's    Mon, 20 May 2013, 12:00 PM // feeds.newscientist.com
• When disaster strikes, it's survival of the sociable
  In the drive to climate-proof cities, we can't just focus on buildings. Social infrastructure is just as important, says sociologist Robert Sampson    Fri, 17 May 2013, 08:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Zap the brain with electricity to speed up mental maths
  It's what school children have been waiting for – stimulating the brain speeds up mental arithmetic and the results seem to last    Thu, 16 May 2013, 10:35 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Consciousness: Our silent partner, the unconscious
  One aspect of our cognitive prowess rarely gets the credit it deserves. Behold the power of the unconscious mind!    Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com

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• Consciousness: Why aren't we all zombies?
  What survival advantage would a conscious human have over a zombie? In other words, why did consciousness evolve, asks Clare Wilson    Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Consciousness: What we can learn from altered states
  Strange brain states like anarchic hand syndrome and waking dreams can reveal a lot about how we construct reality, say Clare Wilson and Liz Else    Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Not very clever
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• Consciousness: Why it's good that I know that I know
  The capacity for self-reflection is what give humans superconsciousness and seems to be what sets us apart from other animals    Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Genes in the brain keep bad time when we are depressed
  Brain cells turn out to have a timetable for genetic activity, just like cells elsewhere – but this pattern is out of sync in people with depression    Mon, 13 May 2013, 12:00 PM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Analogy: The vital talent that fuels our minds
  We take for granted our ability to reason using analogies, but the skill is at the core of human cognition, argue Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander    Thu, 9 May 2013, 08:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• European and Asian languages have one mother tongue
  Most of the modern languages in Eurasia can be traced back to a single mother tongue that existed around the time of the last ice age    Tue, 7 May 2013, 09:54 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Hidden talent: What's your superpower?
  Discover a mental, physical, emotional or sensory ability you never knew you possessed by taking a scientific approach to testing your limits    Tue, 7 May 2013, 06:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Mindscapes: The woman who can't recognise her face
  Heather Sellers has one of the worst cases of prosopagnosia ever recorded. She can't recognise any face – even her own – so she uses gait to navigate her world    Thu, 2 May 2013, 09:48 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd
  If your creative spark fails you at the crucial moment, there's a whole online community of humans and AI systems waiting to bring your project to life    Thu, 2 May 2013, 05:40 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Brain implant gives early warning of epileptic seizure
  A device that monitors brainwaves warns people with epilepsy of oncoming seizures, helping them stay safe    Wed, 1 May 2013, 03:30 PM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Age-defying: Master key of lifespan found in brain
  The brain's mechanism for controlling ageing has been discovered – and manipulated to shorten and extend the lives of mice. Drugs to slow ageing could follow    Wed, 1 May 2013, 10:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Happiness tracking software could gauge mood in photos
  Ever wanted to organise your photos by how happy they are? You may soon get your wish, with a new system that tracks facial emotions in group photos    Sat, 27 Apr 2013, 12:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• E-tattoo monitors brainwaves and baby bump
  An electronic patch can analyse complex brainwaves and listen in on a fetus's heart    Fri, 26 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.newscientist.com
• Mindscapes: The woman who was dropped into her body
  Depersonalisation disorder – in which your memories feel alien and your world unreal – is less rare than you might think. We speak to someone who has it    Thu, 25 Apr 2013, 09:54 AM // feeds.newscientist.com

The Linguist List

• 24.2165, Books: Contrastive Discourse Analysis: Taboada, Doval-Suárez, González Álvarez (Eds)
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• 24.2164, Calls: Applied Linguistics/ Canadian Modern Language Review (Jrnl)
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• 24.2163, Books: Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects: Szmrecsanyi
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• 24.2162, Books: Creativity and the Agile Mind: Veale, Feyaerts, Forceville (Eds)
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• 24.2161, Books: Language Conflict in Algeria: Benrabah
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• 24.2160, Jobs: Comp Ling; Morphology; Typology: Post Doc, Empirical Foundations of Linguistics Project
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• 24.2159, Confs: Applied Linguistics/UK
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• 24.2158, Confs: General Linguistics/France
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• 24.2157, Confs: Computational Linguistics/USA
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• 24.2156, Confs: Semantics, Philosophy of Language/Spain
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• 24.2155, TOC: Journal of Germanic Linguistics 25/2 (2013)
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• 24.2154, Confs: Ling Theories, Syntax, Morphology, Discipline of Ling/Germany
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• 24.2153, Confs: Ling Theories, General Ling, Computational Ling/Germany
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• 24.2152, Calls: Computational Ling, Applied Ling, Language Acquisition/Taiwan
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• 24.2151, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Socioling, Historical Ling/Georgia
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• 24.2150, Jobs: Phonetics; Psycholing: Post Doc, Haskins Laboratories
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• 24.2149, Books: Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Mallinson, Childs, Van Herk (Eds)
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• 24.2148, Jobs: Socioling; Typology; Language Contact; Interactional Ling: Post Doc, University of Zurich
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• 24.2147, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Italy
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• 24.2146, Review: Historical Linguistics; Syntax: Patten (2012)
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• 24.2145, Summer Schools: 3rd International Ph.D. Summer School in Translation Process Research/ Copenhagen, Denmark
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• 24.2144, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/China
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• 24.2143, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Indonesia
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 11:02 AM // linguistlist.org
• 24.2142, Confs: Portuguese, Applied Linguistics/Portugal
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 08:50 AM // linguistlist.org
• 24.2141, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Portugal
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 08:47 AM // linguistlist.org
• 24.2140, Diss: Applied Ling: Victoire: Linguistics Disorders Caused by the Cleft Palate
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• 24.2139, Calls: Language Acquisition/Netherlands
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• 24.2138, Calls: Disc Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling, Computational Ling, Historical Ling/France
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 08:11 AM // linguistlist.org
• 24.2137, Qs: Phoneme Inventory in Corpus for Speech Synthesis
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 08:05 AM // linguistlist.org
• 24.2136, Support: General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Leuven, Belgium
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 08:05 AM // linguistlist.org

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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
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• Big Ben Is Bending
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• How Babies Sort Out Language
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• Free school gets go-ahead in Wapping
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• Understanding just some of the complicated baseball terminology
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• The Weekend's TV: City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri, Fry's Planet Word
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• Arsenal and Man City clearly lost in translation
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• 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
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• Google translates more India languages
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• Book Talk: Weaving a novel from a threat of history
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• Japanese language traced to Korean Peninsula: study
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• 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
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• Being bilingual a good brain work-out, experts say
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• Deaf dog gets sign language training
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• 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
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• 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
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• Sri Lanka scraps minority language anthem
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• 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
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• Chinese regions fight back against surge of Mandarin
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• General: More troops need African language skills
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• A thought on Plato and Heidegger
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• The Writers
  Dennis Leroy Kangalee Inspired by Protest Art, early punk &  rap, revolutionary jazz,  and Theater of the Absurd, Kangalee draws inspiration from his own life as as opposed to Literary History […]…Wed, 22 May 2013, 05:42 PM // en.search.wordpress.com
  
• Tete-a-Tete's Learn Singlish 101 Workshop
  Translated from French, tête-à-tête means having a face-to-face private conversation between two people. Tête-à-Tête is also what a group of individuals in Singapore, who are interested in linguistics…Wed, 22 May 2013, 05:40 PM // en.search.wordpress.com
  
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• Special Edition: Old Letters (or the four "Billy no mates" of the alphabet)
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• Activities developed on May 8th
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• A Linguistic Dissection of 7 Annoying Teenage Sounds
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• Judging A Society By Its Word Choice
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Language Log

• Ngram morality
  David Brooks has found a congenial story in Google ngrams — or rather, in three papers about ngrammatical history, which he interprets to show that virtue, discipline, and concern for the common good…Wed, 22 May 2013, 04:38 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
  
• Protesting too much
  A guest post from Tony Kroch: The line The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks from Hamlet that Mark Liberman blogged about at the end of last month struck me because it encapsulates in one sentence…Wed, 22 May 2013, 04:30 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
  
• Tabudish and the origins of Mandarin
  In the comments to Shanghainese, a lively discussion on the relationship between the Wu branch of Sinitic languages and early Mandarin has ensued.  Quoting South Coblin, This reminds me … of something…Tue, 21 May 2013, 06:38 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Misnegation or term of art?
  Roni Caryn Rabin, No Easy Choices on Breast Reconstruction, NYT Blogs 5/20/2013: A syndrome called upper quarter dysfunction — its symptoms include pain, restricted immobility and impaired sensation a…Tue, 21 May 2013, 03:39 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Grammar vs. style: ignorance in The Times
  Articles about English grammar in UK newspapers tend to exhibit an almost incredible degree of stupidity. In no other subject could such self-contradictory idiocy be accepted, or subjected to so littl…Tue, 21 May 2013, 02:35 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Biden at Penn: did the Vice President insult the Chinese nation?
  The Tea Leaf Nation online magazine posted this article on May 19, 2013:  VP Biden’s Penn Commencement Speech Inspires Viral Rant by ‘Disappointed’ Chinese Student.  The article, by Xiaoying Zhou, off…Mon, 20 May 2013, 06:53 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• 2013 Blizzard Challenge
  From Simon King: I am pleased to announce that the English section of this year's Blizzard Challenge listening test is now live. Please help us out by taking part, and encouraging your colleagues, stu…Mon, 20 May 2013, 08:10 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• A far-flung Nostratic colony in the Andes
  In The Inca Connection: A Quechua Word Game, 5/18/2013, Piotr Gąsiorowski compares a 200-word Swadesh list for Southern Quechua and the Tower of Babel 'Eurasiatic' etymologies, and finds 22 clear matc…Sun, 19 May 2013, 08:47 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Rep. Gohmert's asparagus
  Luke Johnson, Louie Gohmert Goes Off On Eric Holder At House Hearing, Huffington Post 5/16/2013: A visibly infuriated Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tore into Attorney General Eric Holder after his time…Sun, 19 May 2013, 05:16 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Racist Park
  Liwei Jiao sent in a selection of signs from a Chinese website that was originally part of a collection assembled in the Daily Mail. We've seen most of these Chinglish signs before, and have already d…Fri, 17 May 2013, 03:33 PM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

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• Misnegation of the week
  From the 5/16/2013 decision of the Third Circuit, invalidating an NLRB decision based on the argument that the recess appointment of one of the board's members was invalid: The main purpose of the Rec…Fri, 17 May 2013, 06:08 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• "Significance", in 1885 and today
  There's an ongoing argument about the interpretation of Katherine Baicker et al., The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes, NEJM 5/2/2013, and one aspect of this debate has foc…Fri, 17 May 2013, 05:42 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Innocent face
  This is the allegedly libelous remark on Twitter that might cost Sally Bercow tens of thousands in damages: Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent face* How (you might ask) could it possibly be libe…Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:48 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Shanghainese
  Just yesterday, in The enigmatic language of the new Windows 8 ads, we saw how delicate and uncertain is the comprehension of forms of Chinese that one is not intimately familiar with. A significant p…Thu, 16 May 2013, 06:58 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
• Hurtles and hurdles
  Nicholas Thompson, Terrible News About Carbon and Climage Change, The New Yorker 5/12/2013: We’ve got more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any point since the Pliocene, when there were ju…Wed, 15 May 2013, 07:56 AM // languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

Language Hat

• LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF TEENAGE SOUNDS.
  James Harbeck (of the word blog Sesquiotica, where you can read about such things as escovitch fish, whose name turns out to be a Jamaican variant on Spanish escabeche) has a delightful piece at The W…Wed, 22 May 2013, 05:47 PM // languagehat.com
  
• CROWDSOURCING SEMANTICS.
  Via Dave Wilton at Wordorigins.org, an interesting project, VerbCorner:Dictionaries have existed for centuries, but scientists still haven't worked out the exact meanings for most words. At VerbCorner…Wed, 22 May 2013, 07:37 AM // languagehat.com
  
• THE FRIGHTENING EVERYDAY WORD.
  From a letter (6 III 1909) of Innokenty Annensky (classicist, poet, and much-loved teacher) to Max Voloshin:But do many understand what the word is among us? [...] You know, recently, even among us, o…Tue, 21 May 2013, 09:21 AM // languagehat.com
• EPEOLATORS ALL.
  Hugh MacDiarmid is one of my oldest poetic lodestones; he was one of the first poets I quoted at LH, back in 2002, and I did so again a couple of years ago, but those were both examples of his early s…Mon, 20 May 2013, 03:51 PM // languagehat.com
• NOSTRATIC QUECHUA.
  Piotr Gąsiorowski has produced the perfect rejoinder to the Pagel nonsense—in this Language Evolution post he proves, using the same allegedly rigorous techniques the proto-Eurasiatic crew rely on, th…Sun, 19 May 2013, 07:17 AM // languagehat.com
• ZINAIDA VENGEROVA.
  This is another in my occasional series of posts bringing to light unjustly forgotten inhabitants of the byways of history (see, for instance, Sofya Engelgardt). Reading Catriona Kelly's excellent A H…Sat, 18 May 2013, 02:02 PM // languagehat.com
• ETYMOLOGICAL WORDNET.
  Etymological Wordnet looks promising, even if I don't understand quite how it works; their website says: The Etymological Wordnet project provides information about how words in different languages ar…Fri, 17 May 2013, 02:51 PM // languagehat.com
• FAVORITE SENTENCES.
  Ben Yagoda has a Lingua Franca post celebrating great sentences, which he collects the way some people collect beach glass, small statues of turtles, or perceived insults. He provides a nice selection…Thu, 16 May 2013, 03:18 PM // languagehat.com
• ALICE KOBER.
  A nice NY Times story by Margalit Fox on an unsung hero of historical linguistics (even though she wasn't a linguist): Alice Elizabeth Kober was born in Manhattan on Dec. 23, 1906, the daughter of rec…Wed, 15 May 2013, 06:52 AM // languagehat.com
• BESS OF HARDWICK'S LETTERS.
  This is definitely, as they used to say, Best of the Web:Bess of Hardwick (c.1521/2-1608) is one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures. She is renowned for her reputation as a dynast and indomi…Tue, 14 May 2013, 08:40 AM // languagehat.com

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• THE QUEST FOR G.
  A Wordorigins.org thread started with the simple question: The song, Sidewalks of New York has the line Some are up in 'G,' meaning, apparently, successful. What might be the origin of this phrase? An…Mon, 13 May 2013, 11:00 AM // languagehat.com
• NO EARL IN EARL GREY.
  Michael Quinion of World Wide Words, in his latest newsletter, has a great entry about the phrase Earl Grey tea:Various stories link it to the second Earl Grey, who was British prime minister between…Sun, 12 May 2013, 10:04 AM // languagehat.com
• THE QUEST FOR MEANDERINGS.
  In my salad days, when I still thought of myself as a mathematician-in-training, I would have been fascinated by this (Caroline Chen writes about Shinichi Mochizuki's alleged proof of a famed, beguili…Sat, 11 May 2013, 12:27 PM // languagehat.com
• CAXTON.
  A couple of years ago I posted about Barrie England's blog Real Grammar; it's now gone, along with its host (though it's archived), but England has started a new one, Caxton (after this guy), and impo…Fri, 10 May 2013, 02:18 PM // languagehat.com
• THE SYMBONIA OF THE ARCHONTICS.
  I do enjoy a good heresy and an eloquent denunciation thereof (see, for instance, here or here), so you can imagine my pleasure when I came upon this passage from The Catholic Doctrine of the Church o…Thu, 9 May 2013, 09:31 AM // languagehat.com

Games With Words

• VerbCorner: A Citizen Science project to find out what verbs mean
  Earlier this week, I blogged about our new VerbCorner project. At the end, I promised that there would be more info forthcoming about why we are doing this project, about its aims and expected outcome…Wed, 22 May 2013, 05:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
  
• Citizen Science at GamesWithWords.org: The VerbCorner Project
  What do verbs mean? We'd like to know. For that reason, we just launched VerbCorner, a massive, crowd-sourced investigation into the meanings of verbs.  Why do we need this project? Why not just look…Tue, 21 May 2013, 03:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• A Critical Period for Learning Language?
  If you bring adults and children into the lab and try teaching them a new language, adults will learn much more of the language much more rapidly than the children. This is odd, because probably one…Thu, 16 May 2013, 05:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Living in an Imperfect World: Psycholinguistics Edition
  You, sir, have tasted two whole worms. You have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad. You will leave Oxford by the next town drain. -- Reverend Spooner. There is…Mon, 13 May 2013, 07:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Do You Speak Korean?
  Learning new languages is hard for many reasons. One of those reasons is that the meaning of an individual word can have a lot of nuances, and the degree to which those nuances match up with the nuan…Wed, 8 May 2013, 06:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Evolutionary Psychology, Proximate Causation, & Ultimate Causation
  Evolutionary psychology has always been somewhat controversial in the media for reasons that generally confuse me (Wikipedia has a nice rundown of the usual complaints). For instance, the good folks…Mon, 6 May 2013, 06:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Findings: The Role of World Knowledge in Pronoun Interpretation
  A few months ago, I posted the results of That Kind of Person. This was the final experiment in a paper on pronoun interpretation, a paper which is now in press. You can find a PDF of the accepted ver…Wed, 1 May 2013, 05:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Everlasting Love
  I just got back data from a survey in which we asked people to estimate how long different emotions are likely to last. We'll use this information to design a future experiment looking at how people e…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 07:13 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New Experiment: The Vocab Quiz
  Curious how good your vocabulary is? I just posted a new experiment that will tell you. There are 32 questions. At the end, you'll see your score and how it compares with others who have done the expe…Tue, 23 Apr 2013, 06:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New Experiment: The Language & Memory Test
  There is a close relationship between language and memory, since of course whenever you use words and grammar, you have to access your memory for those words and that grammar. If you couldn't remember…Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 05:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• New Experiment: Collecting Fancy Art
  Over the last few years, we've run a lot of experiments online at GamesWithWords.org, resulting so far in four publications, with a number of others currently under review at various journals. Most of…Mon, 15 Apr 2013, 07:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Lab Notebook: Social Networking
  The problem with websites is they quickly become obsolete. A few years ago, I updated the website to make it easier to share pages, adding buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Reddit. A little whi…Sun, 14 Apr 2013, 05:21 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Who you gonna believe: E. O. Wilson or common sense?
  I was planning a post on E. O. Wilson's recent flight of fancy, Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math, in which he tells potential future scientists that knowing math isn't all that important, but it turns o…Wed, 10 Apr 2013, 04:44 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• International Journal of Lousy Research
  Jeffrey Beall's blacklist of predatory open-access journals -- discussed in yesterday's New York Times -- provides evidence for my long-standing suspicion of any journal named International Journal of…Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 03:16 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Laying to rest an old myth about Chinese
  I just got back from my second research trip to Taiwan in three years (with another planned soon!) and fourth trip overall. As always, I had a great time and ate as much beef noodle soup as I could ma…Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 06:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Update on DuoLingo
  I have been using Duolingo for a few months to brush up my Spanish. I have generally found it to be pretty useful and a significant improvement over my strategy was to listen to the news in Spanish. S…Sat, 30 Mar 2013, 01:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Chemistry has its own problems with replication, according to Nature: Scrounging chemicals and equipment in their spare time, a team of chemistry bloggers is trying to replicated published protocols f…Tue, 22 Jan 2013, 05:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What makes psychology and neuroscience hard
  Explained by today's XKCD: Ambrose Bierce pointed out the same problem in his 1911 satyrical dictionary (The Devil's Dictionary): Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief…Mon, 21 Jan 2013, 07:31 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fractionating IQ
  Near the dawn of the modern study of the mind, the great psychological pioneer Charles Spearman noticed that people who are good at one kind of mental activity tend to be good at most other good menta…Thu, 17 Jan 2013, 06:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Professor -- The Easiest Job in the World
  There has been a small kerfuffle over Susan Adams's article at Forbes, titled The least stressful jobs of 2013: University professors have a lot less stress than most of us. Unless they teach summer s…Wed, 9 Jan 2013, 07:58 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Transferring Consciousness
  My brother was just in town, and we had our usual argument about Old Man's War, which he loves and about which I'm less enthusiastic (it was a fun read, but...). Perhaps one issue that keeps me from e…Tue, 8 Jan 2013, 07:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Eighteen papers on replication
  Last month, Perspectives in Psychological Science published a special section on replicability in psychological science. With 18 papers, it took me a while to get through all of them, so I am only bl…Mon, 17 Dec 2012, 07:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• In praise of experiments
  Today, the excellent Neuroskeptic writes about a new study investigating which US states are most suicidal. The interesting twist was the form of the data: Google searches. It's an interesting study a…Fri, 14 Dec 2012, 11:18 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Lab Notebook: You know you are writing a paper when
  Your recently added list in Mendeley is growing at an exponential rate: (click to expand. note time added.) Every new paper you read results in downloading at least two more (not unlike the Hounds of…Thu, 13 Dec 2012, 01:12 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Findings: That Kind of Person
  That Kind of Person is now complete. Many thanks to all who answered the call to participate. For some time now, I have been studying the effect of context on pronoun interpretation. If words and sent…Wed, 12 Dec 2012, 08:32 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

Johnson

• Of nations, peoples, countries and mínzú
  DID Joe Biden insult China?  The American vice-president has a habit of sticking his foot into his mouth, and in this case, the recent graduation speech he gave at the University of Pennsylvania inspi…Tue, 21 May 2013, 10:55 AM // economist.com
• English atop the Eurovision pile, yet again
  LAST Saturday saw Denmark win the Eurovision Song Contest, the country's third win in the contest's history. A prototypically apple-cheeked blonde (pictured) took the trophy for her country, but she d…Mon, 20 May 2013, 08:05 AM // economist.com
• Setting the record straight
  IT IS rare that Johnson is compelled to respond to comments. But my last post, about the fun parallels in the hybrid development of English and Dravidian languages, seems to have stirred the passions…Mon, 13 May 2013, 12:41 AM // economist.com
• The performing black folks next door
  INTERNET memes rarely hit and then provoke counter-reaction this fast.  First, watch this video, whether or not you know the context.Now, the context. Three women had been missing in Cleveland for a d…Wed, 8 May 2013, 09:44 AM // economist.com
• Eurasiatic?
  THE Washington Post reports today that linguists have discovered a handful of ultraconserved words, some 15,000 years old. These are said to include hand, give, bark and ash. The paper is Ultraconserv…Tue, 7 May 2013, 12:48 PM // economist.com
• Unlikely parallels
  IF FORCED to pick my favourite part of the history of English, I’d be torn. There are so many to choose from. Would I pick the Great Vowel Shift, the mid-millennium change in pronunciation that largel…Wed, 1 May 2013, 12:28 PM // economist.com
• Multilingual in the West
  STATES that have passed English-only laws aren't typically the sort to shower money on bilingual education. Utah, which declared English its sole official language in 2000, seems to be an exception. T…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 07:36 AM // economist.com
• A man walked into a bar...
  BEN YAGODA at Lingua Franca doesn't like the historical present: the tendency to use the present tense to describe past (and literary) events, as in this example from a radio interview about Lawrence…Thu, 25 Apr 2013, 09:01 AM // economist.com
• Who's number 1? Really?
  WHAT country's non-native English-speakers speak the best business English in the world?  Try to think of five countries before reading on.Done?  The answer, according to GlobalEnglish, is probably no…Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 01:03 PM // economist.com
• An ombudsman by any other name would still field complaints
  MAN is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. So wrote Rousseau (L'homme est né libre, et est partout dans les fers.) Did he mean that just half the world's population, that half with a Y chromoso…Tue, 23 Apr 2013, 09:50 AM // economist.com

More

• 212 only
  Mastrionotti: Fink. That's a Jewish name, isn't it?Barton: Yeah.Mastrionotti: Yeah, I didn't think this dump was restricted.AT THE Lingua Franca blog, Ben Yagoda describes a conversation Ruth Fraklin…Fri, 19 Apr 2013, 09:11 AM // economist.com
• Going (beyond) Dutch
  FOR small European states, language policy calls for a delicate balancing act. Luxembourg has three official languages, Switzerland four, and Belgium three. In Luxembourg, the distinction is mostly fu…Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 10:51 AM // economist.com
• Solitary linguistic confinement
  ANY fan of cops-crooks-and-courtrooms dramas knows that solitary confinement is a treat reserved for highly volatile criminals, or used to punish inmates for various misdeeds. In 2011, after determini…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 11:39 AM // economist.com
• Words of war
  TARGETED killing. Detainee. Harsh interrogation techniques. Pity the New York Times. Activists will always try to get journalists to use their preferred language. But few outlets actually make decisio…Mon, 15 Apr 2013, 02:55 PM // economist.com
• Tamil in the courts
  LANGUAGES are a touchy business in India, with 22 recognised in the constitution. Hindi and English get prime status in the central government, but nearly every state has its own distinct policy. If p…Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 04:32 AM // economist.com
• How black to be?
  AMERICA'S National Public Radio has just started a new blog on race, and the title is a term from linguistics: Code-Switch. We've touched on code-switching before. Linguists typically use it to mean t…Wed, 10 Apr 2013, 01:31 PM // economist.com
• A half-century in language change
  ON THE pavement just outside The Economist's New York offices, I spied a small pile of books for the taking, and it happened to have a little treasure on top: More Language that Needs Watching by Theo…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 10:05 AM // economist.com
• Justicia más accesible
  JOHNSON wrote last week that the international courts face hurdles in dealing with different languages. Some courts with limited linguistic purviews, like the International Criminal Tribunal for the f…Fri, 5 Apr 2013, 09:33 AM // economist.com
• Words appearing in newspapers controversially
  IN HIS 1991 book Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World, David Rieff writes of the trembling racial sensibilities of the city's rich whites:So sensitive were liberal Angelenos to the possibility of a…Thu, 4 Apr 2013, 02:08 PM // economist.com
• In praise of sensible peeving
  SO-CALLED descriptivists and prescriptivists in language love to hate each other. It's dirty hippies versus fascists, permissivists versus authoritarians, or, in neutral terms, those who talk about ho…Wed, 3 Apr 2013, 09:10 AM // economist.com
• Towards a fairer distribution
  TRANSLATION and interpretation in matters of diplomacy is tricky. Language enthusiasts particularly enjoy the story of the Treaty of Wuchale, signed between Ethiopia and Italy in 1889. The text didn’t…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 06:56 PM // economist.com
• Mental gymnastics
  IMAGINE telling someone about a recent conversation you had at dinner with two friends. You would refer to the interlocutors by name, perhaps even alter your voice slightly to differentiate between th…Fri, 29 Mar 2013, 12:41 PM // economist.com
• Broken promises
  ENJAMBMENT rarely makes the news. It may have reams of academic essays devoted to it, but less recondite publications have, understandably, steered clear of the poetic device, by which one line of ver…Wed, 27 Mar 2013, 09:14 AM // economist.com
• Laws in translation
  THINGS are getting quieter at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The court, which was established in 1993 to deal with war crimes in the Balkans in the 1990s, has no…Mon, 25 Mar 2013, 07:03 AM // economist.com
• Apostropholypse now
  MID DEVON District Council, which governs local affairs in a small bit of southwestern England, recently took Britain by storm. How?Outrage at local authority plans to abolish apostrophe [Guardian]Cou…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:17 PM // economist.com

The Linguist

• Tired of learning German in Germany
  German can be difficult according to Kristi Fuoco,  in this article in our local Vancouver Sun newspaper. Kristi is living in Germany, studying German and is baffled by German grammar, especially the…Wed, 22 May 2013, 04:29 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
  
• Online Learning: ALMOST a Perfect System
    I am a fan of online learning for languages. Without the Internet I could not have advanced so quickly in Romanian and Czech, for example. But online learning can have its problems. For three or fou…Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:32 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Traditional Language Instruction: Why it Doesn’t Work
  Do grammar instruction, corrections and role playing help us learn languages? I guess it does but only to a very limited degree. Here is an interesting excerpt from a discussion on a recent Internet f…Tue, 14 May 2013, 03:09 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Motivation to learn languages
  Our motivation is what determines success or failure in language learning. So what motivates us to learn different languages? For myself over the last few years, I can see a variety of different motiv…Tue, 7 May 2013, 11:34 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Romanian: learning a new language easier?
  I have been learning Romanian for past three weeks. I can understand newscasts and interviews. I can even speak, although with regular pauses. Never have I progressed so quickly in a language. Of cour…Fri, 3 May 2013, 02:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Grammar, how best to learn it.
  I like the grazing approach, nibble on a bit of grammar, then read and listen, and then go back to a bit of grammar. Work with examples, in the grammar book and then from real meaningful context, and…Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 09:37 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Moved to wordpress
  I have finally transferred my blog to WordPress after a most unhappy experience with Posterous. I promise to be more active nowWed, 24 Apr 2013, 09:31 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• A wonderful contextual dictionary Linguee.fr
  I am often asked to comment on, or to mention, or to promote, different language related websites. I usually prefer not to do so. However, this dictionary, with a new approach to using context, or wha…Sun, 31 Mar 2013, 09:05 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Mexican holiday, for those without a Facebook account.
  Since not everyone has a facebook account, here are some of the pictures and videos of our visit.Tue, 12 Mar 2013, 09:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Mexico, a big country and a hospitable country.
  My wife and I are having a great time in Mexico. The best place to follow it is at my Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/steve.kaufmann2Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 08:42 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Lousy Linguist

• David Books, Word Classes, and Google Ngrams
  David Brooks waxes poetic about word frequencies and the good old days in today's NYT: What Our Words Tell Us. Update: Before reading my own most excellent original post below, here are two well respe…Wed, 22 May 2013, 04:13 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
  
• VerbCorner - crowd sourcing and verb meaning
  Josh, a postdoc at Harvard, has initiated an online game called VerbCorner in order to crowd source the study of the meaning of verbs. How often do you and I, the little people, get a chance to contri…Wed, 22 May 2013, 04:00 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
  
• Book Reviews
  A quick (very self-serving) link fest. Here are the cognitive linguistics related book reviews I've written:1. Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans. By Derek Bickerton. 2.…Sat, 18 May 2013, 05:14 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• heard tell 'bout them linguistic constructions yonder
  Randomly, my mind wondered onto an older English slang phrase, heard tell which is culturally associated with rural and working class. It means something like I heard about X. Before I get to the inte…Thu, 16 May 2013, 02:55 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Pullum’s NLP Lament: More Sleight of Hand Than Fact
  My first reading of both of Pullum’s recent NLP posts (one and two) interpreted them to be hostile, an attack on a whole field (see my first response here). Upon closer reading, I see Pullum chooses h…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:42 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Pullum thinks there are no NLP products???
  Famed linguist Geoffrey Pullum has a recent Chronicle of Higher Education post about NLP: Why Are We Still Waiting for Natural Language Processing? As a linguist, I deeply respect Geoff Pullum's reput…Sun, 12 May 2013, 04:29 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• The birth of a metaphor
  A Twitter exchange with Ben Zimmer over the metaphorical use of the phrase pause button in the new TV show The Americans (set in 1981) led me to think about how metaphors begin their lives. I didn't w…Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 06:00 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• So You Want To Be A Text Analyst? Get Your Hands Dirty.
  Yet again, I find myself responding to posts on a Text Analytics discussion board and I'd like to broadcast my response to a wider audience. After posting a link to my review of IBM's Text Analytics p…Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 07:14 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Crazy Question - The Primacy of Nouns or Verbs?
  A question was posted recently in a Text Analytics group discussion on a well known social networking site (sorry, not Facebook). I posted an answer and thought it was worth broadcasting to a wider au…Fri, 15 Feb 2013, 05:30 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• IBM SPSS Text Analytics - STAS vs. Word Clouds
  This is the fourth and final post in a series about IBM's SPSS Text Analytics platform STAS (first intro post here, second on a linguist's perspective here, third on Shakespeare's sonnets here). As I…Thu, 14 Feb 2013, 06:00 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com

More

• IBM SPSS Text Analytics: A Shakespearean Stage
  This is the third in a series of posts about IBM's SPSS Text Analytics platform STAS (first post here, second here). These tests were performed Tuesday eve.Yet again, my work-a-day schedule was a bit…Wed, 13 Feb 2013, 06:22 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Black Swan Linguistics: ITF-DF?
  Is there such a thing as Inverse Term Frequency-Document Frequency as a metric? The logic would be similar to TF-IDF.For TF-IDF, if a word is rare in a large document set, but common in three document…Fri, 8 Feb 2013, 04:13 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Louder Than Words - Book Review Part 3: Ch 5-7
  I've finished the next chunk of Ben Bergen's embodied cognitive linguistics book Louder Than Words, putting me just about 2/3rds of the way through. I'll be putting together a single, overview review…Thu, 7 Feb 2013, 06:04 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• IBM's SPSS Text Analytics - A Linguist's Perspective
  This is the second in a series of posts about IBM's SPSS Text Analytics platform STAS (first post here). I haven't had much time to do anything more than review the documentation, but I must reiterate…Wed, 6 Feb 2013, 04:59 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• IBM SPSS Text Analytics - Any Good? Yes.
  I recently discovered that IBM bought SPSS a few years ago and is now providing a Text Analytics package called IBM SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys (producing the acronym STAS, which is either a stats…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 06:00 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Free Online NLP Resources - NLTK Still Rules Them All
  I recently received an email from a US undergraduate interested in tools and resources for NLP, particularly free tagged corpora. Luckily, the NLP field has matured into an open access friendly crowd,…Sun, 27 Jan 2013, 08:28 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Zero Dark Thirty - Torture Propaganda
  I saw Zero Dark Thirty Monday afternoon, January 21st.My comments below relate to Bigelow’s fictional representations of torture in Zero Dark Thirty, not to the debate over whether real torture led to…Wed, 23 Jan 2013, 05:54 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Louder Than Words - Book Review Part 2: Ch 2-4
  I've finished chapter 4 of Ben Bergen's new embodied cognitive linguistics book Louder Than Words, which puts me about 1/3 of the way through (my Part 1 review here). For now, I'm just going to publis…Wed, 16 Jan 2013, 03:46 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Louder Than Words - Book Review Part 1
  I have begun reading Ben Bergen's new cognitive linguistics book Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning. From the book description: In Louder than Words, cognitive scientist…Sun, 13 Jan 2013, 11:08 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• Django In Air Conditioning
  I finally saw Django Unchained and sadly, I was a little disappointed. Mostly because it just didn't seem to be a spaghetti western. For me, spaghetti westerns are defined by Clint Eastwood and Sergio…Tue, 1 Jan 2013, 05:21 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• sometimes a movie formula is just a formula
  If Tarantino ever made a romantic comedy, it might look a lot like Silver Linings Playbook. I saw the film this weekend and couldn't escape the idea that, despite its truly admirable qualities, it sti…Mon, 24 Dec 2012, 05:27 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• college is a ponzi scheme
  This NYTs article is getting a lot of buzz on Twitter and Facebook: For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall.Sad but true. College is no longer a mechanism for people to pull themselves up…Sun, 23 Dec 2012, 08:54 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• on humility
  On Humility: Today is my birthday. All of the many happy birthday posts on my Facebook wall today have been touching and reminded me of one of the most humble moments of my life, a moment I have alway…Sun, 2 Dec 2012, 07:55 PM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• changes in referential phrasing in presidential debates
  During Wednesday night's presidential debate, @Fritinancy tweeted a quip that got my eye:She caught on to the fact that Mitt Romney used a variation of the name of The National Commission on Fiscal Re…Fri, 5 Oct 2012, 05:17 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com
• knowing your own mind...
  How well do you understand your own biases? Is there a way to objectively identify your own biases, without the convoluted mess that is your own conscious meta-thinking?Why yes, yes there is. Harvard…Thu, 4 Oct 2012, 05:30 AM // thelousylinguist.blogspot.com

Metrolingua

• Acknowledgments with a twist
  This week, John Records Landecker's memoir, Records is Truly My Middle Name, is being released, and he has written Acknowledgments that end like this:I would like to thank everyone who listened. I wou…Mon, 25 Mar 2013, 03:19 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Translation: ☆Taku Takahashi from m-flo criticizes the Japanese music scene
  Here's a translation I did of the article, ☆Taku from m-flo says, 'Japan's music is 20 years behind Korea's' [m-floの☆Taku「日本の音楽は韓国に20年遅れている」と指摘]☆Taku, from the famous Japanese hip hop group m-flo, tal…Tue, 19 Mar 2013, 12:33 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Indian Breakfast
  Right now, I'm at Williams-Sonoma watching Anupy Singla from Indian As Apple Pie cooking a vegan Indian breakfast! She was a TV reporter who became a cookbook writer: Vegan Indian Cooking and The Indi…Sat, 16 Feb 2013, 10:24 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Translation: Zuiikin English intro
  A while ago, someone told me about some amusing videos from Japan that taught people English with the Zuiikin Gals. The videos have ended up becoming popular because they seem so odd. Here's what the…Wed, 13 Feb 2013, 04:52 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Translation of Anime News: 50th Anniversary of Astro Boy
  I did another translation from the Anime!Anime! site of the article, Family Gekijo's special TV program 'The History of Japanese Television Anime Creation' on the 50th Anniversary of Astro Boy. Here's…Wed, 6 Feb 2013, 11:01 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Translation of Anime News: Be in a Manga
  I asked an anime fan if there's anything I should translate that would help fans find out what's going on in that world. He suggested this news from the Anime!Anime! site, so I did a brief translation…Tue, 5 Feb 2013, 07:03 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Translation: explaining "giri" to French people
  During the first year of this blog, I mentioned the book Cent Questions Sur le Japon, which was published around 30 years ago. It teaches Japanese people how to talk about Japan in French, and is writ…Tue, 22 Jan 2013, 12:49 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• The Fake in Facebook
  I recently read The Boy Kings, which some big-time media outlets have billed as a “tell-all” of Facebook, but it really isn't. It's written by Katherine Losse, who left the company, even though she ma…Wed, 5 Dec 2012, 04:42 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Why Rick Kogan deserves his success
  I've been wanting to write about Rick Kogan for a while, but I've been too busy working and too tired during my downtime to clear my mind enough to do a post, but this is something that has to be put…Mon, 22 Oct 2012, 04:27 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• Odd Korean doll
  Watch this hilarious short video (shared by Kesan, aka the former teenage Chinese clown) of an advertisement for a doll in Korea. I guess they enjoy playing with bodily functions over there.Mon, 3 Sep 2012, 12:03 PM // blog.metrolingua.com

More

• The Paul Williams "documentary" isn't
  I was talking to a friend yesterday, who told me how wonderful the film Paul Williams is Still Alive was. He had gone to the Chicago premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday, where Paul Wil…Mon, 2 Jul 2012, 08:40 PM // blog.metrolingua.com
• A typo on Canada Day
  Today is Canada Day, and while I'm not Canadian, I like that place and have been there more than a few times. Actually, I'd like to go again, but my passport has to be renewed :DI was looking at diffe…Sun, 1 Jul 2012, 07:04 AM // blog.metrolingua.com
• 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
• 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

Paleoglot

• Analytic Proto-Bantu?
  In 2007 Derek Nurse asked: Did the Proto-Bantu verb have a synthetic or an analytic structure? He came to the conclusion that it was originally analytic. Proto-Bantu is the originator of several centr…Sun, 24 Mar 2013, 06:00 AM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The Minoan art and artifice
     Mary Beard in Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery reminds us that human history may not just be written by the victors of war but also by a few modern archaeologists corrupted by the power of capita…Sun, 10 Mar 2013, 06:00 AM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Good morning & night good
  At the WordReference forums someone inquires on Romanian grammar: Why noapte bună? The word order appears one way in bună dimineaţă 'good morning', bună ziuă 'good day', bună dupămasă 'good afternoon'…Sun, 24 Feb 2013, 02:39 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Why we outlasted the Neanderthal
  On the Wall Street Journal website, author Chip Walter of Last Ape Standing describes what we know about the Neanderthal's day-to-day life and why Homo sapiens were better adapted to survive and thriv…Sun, 10 Feb 2013, 06:00 AM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The Sahelian kingdoms of Africa
  The Sahelian kingdoms once stretched across grasslands (called the sahel) which bordered the interior side of the Sahara desert, gaining wealth from routes traveled by traders on camels and horseback.…Tue, 29 Jan 2013, 05:01 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The recent Sarteano inscription on an Etruscan plate
  Details on a bucchero plate discovered last year are found under New inscription from Sarteano on Rex Wallace's blog. Many thanks for his clear photo of the text. Wallace has segmented the short, cont…Mon, 28 Jan 2013, 06:00 AM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Estara Alphaza and Phoenician influence in Etruria
  The sequence estrei alφazei appears throughout an Etruscan document called the Liber Linteus. I take this to be marked in the locative case ending in -i (with a meaning like English 'by', 'with' or 'a…Sun, 20 Jan 2013, 10:00 AM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• A naughty speculation on the word 'cannabis'
  I'm still on a kick examining Pre-Greek terms. The topic of Greek substrate isn't complete without discussing the murky origins of the word κάνναβις 'hemp, marijuana'. There's still a certain prudishn…Wed, 16 Jan 2013, 09:13 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Aegean coleslaw, anyone?
  After months of slacking off, I should probably get back to work and blog something. It's not as if I ever ran out of ideas. So today I want to talk about a package of vegetable terms that seem relate…Sun, 30 Dec 2012, 05:50 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Happy 13th baktun
  December 23 2012 is the start of the 13th baktun according to the Mayan Calendar (using 584285 as the correlation constant). Some may have gone by the other popular correlation constant of 584283 maki…Sun, 23 Dec 2012, 09:48 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com

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• Etruscan future tense?
  Carrying from my previous post, I've been thinking about tense and the workings of Etruscan grammar. Generally in world languages, I notice a tendency for temporal concepts like past, present and futu…Sun, 26 Aug 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Finiteness, tense and other crazy things about Etruscan verbs
  Let's talk about the notion of a finite verb in Etruscan. From what I understand thus far, Etruscan has two tenses: past and non-past (aka present-future). So given a verb am 'to be', the past tense i…Thu, 23 Aug 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• An excerpt from Liber Linteus chapter X
  In the Liber Linteus, I identify a sentence in chapter 10: Ce-pen sulχva maθcva-c pruθseri. The grammar and vocabulary is pretty straight-forward and we have a typical SOV sentence pattern, the defaul…Wed, 15 Aug 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Narrowing down the meaning and etymology of acil
  In my previous post, I've deviated away from the translation given by the Bonfantes of the Etruscan word acil as 'work, thing made' and have used the value of 'abundance' instead. Truth be told, I'm n…Mon, 6 Aug 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• On the 18th of Acale
  In the middle of chapter 6 of the Liber Linteus (aka The Mummy text), it reads: eslem . zaθrumiś . acale . tinś . in . śarle // luθti . raχ . ture . acil . caticaθ . luθ . celθim // χim . scuχie . aci…Thu, 2 Aug 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Now she speaks Mandarin
  So I'm sitting at home, browsing the net for info as I always do and what pops on the telly but a commercial for Rosetta Stone language learning software. Towards the end of it, a spunky white woman d…Sun, 29 Jul 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• Etruscan such and such
  There's a curious lexeme with an interesting inflection in the Liber Linteus (LL 6.xviii): caticaθ. Another similar form is found again at LL 7.xix but this time as cnticnθ. Are they related and if so…Sat, 28 Jul 2012, 02:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• The river, the lady and the egg
  I'll just cut to the chase on this one by first unleashing a data dump of three interesting crosslinguistic word themes (lady, egg and river) I've noticed that suggest some fascinating substrate influ…Mon, 16 Jul 2012, 03:00 PM // paleoglot.blogspot.com
• 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

Mr. Verb

• 4th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas
  Had never actually been to Iceland (beyond the airport) but am here now for the 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics in Reykjavík. Amazing in every way ... and the weather has been mostly bette…Wed, 15 May 2013, 11:33 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• DARE, safe for the moment
  You've seen the news by now — anywhere from the Log to the local news —that the Dictionary of American Regional English has secured enough funding to keep going. The good news actually trickled in ove…Thu, 9 May 2013, 01:43 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Morphology FAIL
  I was on the train today (yes, a train, here in America!) and caught sight of this billboard.  It was for a car, maybe a Buick???  Well, I was so riveted by the bizarreness of the morphology that I di…Wed, 8 May 2013, 07:14 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Good clean fun
  I've been a little surprised in the past that this blog has been nominated for awards like the one below. Don't get me wrong, it's cool and all, but we aren't really about language learning.  In fact,…Mon, 6 May 2013, 09:09 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• HPSG Man, by the Dead Tongues
  Wow. Via Twitter, thanks to Jason Baldridge, retweeted by the one and only Ben Zimmer.Sat, 4 May 2013, 03:13 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• #lingchat
  It seems pretty clear that our readers are overwhelmingly on Twitter — we've been exactly as slack about getting followers on Twitter as we have about getting people to read this little corner of the…Tue, 23 Apr 2013, 07:43 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• I heart baseball
  So glad that it's baseball season finally.  Not just for the game - also for the wonderful announcers.Tonight's gem:He's gonna nonchalant a ground ball. Ahhhh.  I love baseball.Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 06:26 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• The Dictionary of American Regional English needs your help. It's serious.
  Here's a line you should never, ever read in the paper: Editor Joan Houston Hall said she’s issued layoff notices, effective July 1, to the staff of the respected dictionary, which includes more than…Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 06:06 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Linguistics flowchart: What field?
  This is floating around fb at the moment (yes, click to embiggen). ... I saw it first on the Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft page. The poster itself is from Cascadilla, the only source a lingui…Sun, 14 Apr 2013, 01:12 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• How dare you!
  The napkin that the flight attendant handed me with my coffee on my flight to San Francisco yesterday had a Seagram's logo on it, along with this:It's good to be you.TMThat's ambiguous!!!  I took it t…Fri, 5 Apr 2013, 06:31 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com

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• ConLangs make TED: Dothraki
  Some folks here have been talking about David Peterson's recent TED talk on constructed languages, here. I didn't know about the Language Creation Society. More generally, TED is a kind of interesting…Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 05:37 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• "Irritating nouns-as-verbs"
  Henry Hitchings has a piece in the NYT this morning called Those Irritating Nouns-as-Verbs, here. It's about stuff of the type do you have a solve for this problem and let's all focus on the build (hi…Sun, 31 Mar 2013, 11:01 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Calling multilinguals ...
  Noted linguist and novelist Rosina Lippi has an intriguing request out ... here. She's got this scenario:one character tells another character that there’s a list of about ten phrases he can say in fi…Mon, 25 Mar 2013, 01:46 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• MOOCs
  Things have been too quiet around here lately, but that has its place too, I guess. One of the linguistics blogs we don't call attention to often enough is Faculty of Language. They have a really good…Sun, 17 Mar 2013, 08:54 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Pikin' to the Dusties
  I had forgotten all about Boontling - when I lived in the Bay Area it was something everyone knew about.  But now it's endangered.  Sigh.  I guess calling it an invented language is slightly overstati…Thu, 28 Feb 2013, 05:27 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• To produce science and to produce scientists
  I have no clue whether readers of this blog know or follow Josh Schimel, who does Writing Science (and a book by the same name). He has a really nice piece here on a question that's  been eating at me…Sun, 10 Feb 2013, 10:20 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Language and immigration
  The most recent round of talk about immigration reform has again brought language and immigration to the fore, and Chris Hayes has posted an important point, here (and graphic from there, from the Mig…Sat, 2 Feb 2013, 01:33 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• MOOCs and Thomas Friedman's "Revolution hits the universities"
  If you care about higher ed in the United States, you've probably already read and even discussed Thomas Friedman's recent op-ed in the NYT, Revolution hits the universities.  If so, you need to read…Mon, 28 Jan 2013, 07:57 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Onion Makes Strong Verb Joke!
  We at Mr. Verb particularly like verb jokes, so it's nice to see the Onion (American's Finest News Source) make one.  This was in the National News Highlights section, January 10, 2013:Adrian, MI - Af…Sat, 26 Jan 2013, 07:48 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• New fieldwork tool! iSLR Field Recorder
  The Sociolinguistics Research Lab at the University of Victoria has just released a really nifty tool for fieldwork, especially sociophonetic fieldwork. It's an app for iPhone, iPad or iPod that …allo…Thu, 24 Jan 2013, 08:54 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• The NRA on language
  I disagree with the National Rifle Association. There, I said it.Seriously. I think that Wayne LaPierre made a very imprecise statement, specifically in saying that (hear on NPR):Absolutes do exist, w…Wed, 23 Jan 2013, 06:43 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• Immigration Canadian style?
  This has been floating on fb ... from cheezburger.com ... Tue, 22 Jan 2013, 04:53 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• #overlyhonestreviews
  Now that #hashtag is reigning word of the year, I suppose even a stodgy old blog like ours can post about them. If you're on Twitter, you may know #overlyhonestmethods, a recent entry in the Science G…Wed, 9 Jan 2013, 12:16 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• DARE goes digital
  Big news from Wisconsin:  The Dictionary of American Regional English is not only going digital this year, but there's a chance for you to join the fun as a beta tester. Just go here to sign up.Tue, 8 Jan 2013, 07:16 AM // mr-verb.blogspot.com
• #hashtag
  Well, there were few Wisconsin folks in the room for the American Dialect Society's just finished Word of the Year vote, so I suppose it falls to me to give the Mr Verb account. Packed room, hilarious…Fri, 4 Jan 2013, 03:50 PM // mr-verb.blogspot.com

Separated by a Common Language

• Ben Yagoda, Evan Davies and me
  I'm afraid to say that this is more of me not getting around to blogging. So many things on the list, but my day job has been taking over my nights. But several people have asked to hear the intervie…Wed, 22 May 2013, 03:08 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
  
• -og and -ogue
  Rachel Ward aka @FwdTranslations just asked me via Twitter: Trying to check usage of epilog(ue) and prolog(ue) in US spelling. Seen suggestion that ue forms still more widely used. True?  And I felt…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 03:41 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• crosswords
  I've just come out from under several painful deadlines and am ready to do some blogging. And the note that I've written to myself is: crosswords. I wrote this note on 11 January, the day that one of…Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 02:55 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• untangle and disentangle
  So, there I was, enjoying a nice evening of nothing while on (AmE) vacation/(BrE) holiday, when Dave Summers of Ohio tweeted me to ask: Heard disentangle the other day. Is that perhaps BrE for untang…Wed, 2 Jan 2013, 11:38 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 2012 US-to-UK Word of the Year: wonk
  As I noted in the UK-to-US WotY post, this hasn't been a particularly 'big' year for American imports to Britain. Those that were nominated were mostly things that were not clearly American before th…Sun, 23 Dec 2012, 08:32 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 2012 UK-to-US WotY: bollocks
  For the first time in six years, I feel spoil{t/ed} for choice in deciding on a UK-to-US Word of the Year, but have a hard time thinking of even one good candidate for US-to-UK. After the 2011 UK med…Sat, 22 Dec 2012, 06:38 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Nominate WotYs & Untranslatables Month II
  Two matters for this belated blog post:  Words of the Year nominations and the Untranslatables Month summary. WotY Nominations Long-term readers will know that we have (at least) two Words of the Yea…Sat, 17 Nov 2012, 05:33 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• visiting
  I've been doing 'Untranslatables October' on Twitter for the second time (made slightly easier this year by the fact that I've given up tweeting on weekends). I'll do a summary at the end of the mont…Sun, 28 Oct 2012, 05:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Briticisms in AmE
  ...or Britishisms in AmE, if you prefer. The past few weeks have seen a lot of interest in the movement of words from the UK to the US. It all started with a BBC Magazine (web) article 'Britishisms a…Thu, 11 Oct 2012, 09:34 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• sleepovers
  What do the following expressions have in common? sleepover slumber party pajama party Yeah, right, they all refer to the same kind of thing. But look more closely--what else do they have in common?…Sat, 22 Sep 2012, 02:54 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• saying 'please' in restaurants
  I did a TEDx talk at Sussex University a few months ago, and now the video is on-line. The subject is being polite in the UK and US, and it focuses on British thanking and American complimenting. I'm…Fri, 17 Aug 2012, 06:54 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• bed skirts, dust ruffles, valances
  I've now remembered what I meant to cover and forgot in my last post. That post is already too, too long, so here's another post about bedding. Years ago, my former colleague Max sent a list of presu…Thu, 9 Aug 2012, 05:14 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• bed linen(s): duvets and comforters
  If you want to know how to buy bed sheets in the US or UK, then the last post (on bed sizes) is the best place to start, since the sizes of beds affect the sizes of sheets and related things. But now…Wed, 8 Aug 2012, 04:54 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• bed sizes
  British correspondent PurpleClaire was having trouble buying bedding on-line to be used in the US, so she tweeted what on earth is a full-size bed? I gave her a tweet-sized answer...but here is a ful…Sat, 21 Jul 2012, 08:43 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• a personal note
  I have a proper blog post planned, but I felt like writing this first. I took a break from blogging and tweeting for a bit because my mom died after an extremely short and unexpected illness. It just…Wed, 18 Jul 2012, 10:11 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• yog(h)urt
  When people ask me what I like about living in England, I have usually said (in this order): the National Health Service the trains hearing about people's hobbies Now, I know that 1 & 2 are not the b…Tue, 19 Jun 2012, 05:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• introducing yourself
  Here is a favo(u)rite passage of mine from Kate Fox's Passport to the Pub: The Tourist's Guide to Pub Etiquette: Don’'t ever introduce yourself. The “Hi, I’m Chuck from Alabama” approach does not go…Tue, 12 Jun 2012, 03:16 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 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

Sentence First

• I didn’t cycle up the Liffey on a bicycle
  Edna O’Brien’s book Girl With Green Eyes has a romantic line involving bicycles: Ah, the bloom of you, I love your North-Circular-Road-Bicycle-Riding-Cheeks. It’s a sweet declaration ending in an impr…Wed, 22 May 2013, 01:34 PM // stancarey.wordpress.com
  
• The sense of things improper
  Alison Dye’s novel The Sense of Things (1994) has a conversation between the narrator, Joanie, and her friend-to-be, Jesus, in which Jesus nervously corrects himself twice in an effort to speak more p…Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:12 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• Mick Jagger, amateur linguist
  Mick Jagger has appeared on Sentence first before, in my post about “bad” grammar in song lyrics. But I was surprised to learn that the Rolling Stones singer and occasional actor is something of an am…Thu, 16 May 2013, 01:34 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• Bookmash: Cat and Mouse Semantics
  It’s a couple of months since I made a bookmash, so here’s a new one. Click to enlarge: * * Cat and Mouse Semantics Fledgling sense And sensibility, Cat and mouse semantics, Nomad codes, Walkabout to…Tue, 14 May 2013, 01:36 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• New language blog: Caxton
  Caxton is a new blog about language from Barrie England, an Oxford graduate who has studied English literature, foreign languages, and older varieties of English. It is named after printing pioneer Wi…Fri, 10 May 2013, 02:45 AM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• Story Bud? Funding the feature film
  Remember Story Bud?, the video of Irish slang and colloquialisms I shared here in February? Director Jenny Keogh has filmed a second clip, How’s About Ye?, in the same style, and it’s great fun altoge…Wed, 8 May 2013, 12:47 PM // stancarey.wordpress.com
• Link love: language (53)
  To keep at bay the ever-present danger of running out of things to read on the internet, here’s a selection of language-related links I’ve enjoyed in recent weeks. For hardboiled hacks and editors: Gr…Tue, 7 May 2013, 12:06 PM // stancarey.wordpress.com

Motivated Grammar

• The subjunctive might be dying, if you ignore where it’s going strong
  If you believe the grammar doomsayers, the English subjunctive is dying out. But if this is the end of the grammatical world, I feel fine — and I say that even though I often mark the subjunctive myse…Wed, 3 Apr 2013, 11:28 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• National Grammar Day 2013: Ten More Grammar Myths, Debunked
  It’s National Grammar Day 2013, which has really snuck up on me. If you’ve been here in previous years, you know that I like to do three things on March 4th: have a rambling speculative discussion abo…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 10:15 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• The Fortnight Before: 01/18/13
  I’ve been meaning to set up some sort of occasional round-up of interesting pieces on the rest of the Internet, and with the new year, there’s no better time to start.  I’ll be posting these (hopefull…Fri, 18 Jan 2013, 11:13 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Of course you don’t see patterns in what you don’t understand
  I’ve been looking through some unfinished drafts of posts from last year, trying to toss some of them together into something meaningful, and I found one that was talking about the stupid Gizmodo “Has…Mon, 7 Jan 2013, 11:13 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• “Can I?” & “May I?”: the historical perspective
  If someone were to lend me a time machine and ask me to go back and figure out exactly what first set me down my road to dedicated descriptivism, I would first ask them if perhaps there wasn’t a bette…Wed, 5 Dec 2012, 01:48 PM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Lazy grammar complaints
  I’ve re-read an old column by Tom Chivers, the Telegraph’s assistant comment editor (a job title I would not have thought existed), discussing a complaint that Noam Chomsky committed a linguistic erro…Wed, 14 Nov 2012, 09:49 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Is there something to lose from an unnecessary rule?
  This blog was linked to a while ago in a Reddit discussion of uninterested and disinterested. (My opinion on them is that uninterested is restricted to the “unconcerned” meaning, while disinterested c…Thu, 1 Nov 2012, 12:52 PM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• An error is an error — except mine
  Let me talk about something that I feel like I’ve been circling around for some time, but never quite directly addressed. It’s a common thing in grammar grousers: playing up other people’s questionabl…Mon, 15 Oct 2012, 11:39 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Misuses of “myself” and “yourself”… from 1840.
  I’ve mentioned my fondness for compiling historical grammatical errors as a reminder that we are not, point of fact, destroying what used to be a perfect language. Previously, I’d found unnecessary qu…Tue, 2 Oct 2012, 11:59 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
• Getting lectured by people who don’t know English
  You know I hate it when people mock English-as-a-second-language speakers for their grammatical missteps. If your sense of humor is so unrefined as to find ESL speakers’ errors jestworthy, I think you…Tue, 18 Sep 2012, 10:24 AM // motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com

Phonetic Blog

• click farewell
  How come, you might ask, that a word spelled with -c- comes to be pronounced with an l? Why this gross discrepancy between spelling and sound, orthography and pronunciation? Blame the 1989 Kiel Conven…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 01:48 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• Breughel
  We can’t agree on how to spell the name of the famous Dutch/Flemish painter(s): were Pieter B. the Elder and his relatives Breughel, Brueghel, Breugel or Bruegel? As is often the case with foreign nam…Fri, 19 Apr 2013, 02:06 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• estuariality
  I had a phone call a few days ago from someone trying to get in touch with David Rosewarne. The caller thought I might have his contact details. I was unable to help, since as far as I remember I have…Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 03:14 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• London place names
  Londonist, a website “about London and everything that happens in it” offers a page of advice on London place names. Some of the advice is a little surprising. These names are normally ˈɔːldwɪtʃ, ˈbʌr…Mon, 15 Apr 2013, 12:38 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• money tree policy
  Puns that work for some do not necessarily work for all. Here’s a witticism from a letter-writer to the Guardian a month ago. But I suspect that this pun doesn’t exactly work for anyone at all, though…Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 12:31 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• listen once more
  When my three-volume Accents of English (Cambridge University Press, 1982) was published, it was accompanied by a cassette with recorded specimens. The same tape was also published by BBC English unde…Wed, 10 Apr 2013, 08:39 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• I must haplologize
  The other day I noticed a reporter on the BBC TV news pronouncing deteriorate as diˈtɪərieɪt. This pronunciation is a variant to which I attach a warning triangle in LPD (“pronunciation considered inc…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 12:14 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• from Toledo to Laredo
  In view of one commenter’s indignation this week about the Ohio placename Lima, pronounced differently from the identically spelt capital of Peru (see screenshot above of the LPD entry), I thought it…Fri, 5 Apr 2013, 12:14 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• bravo lima oscar golf
  In an on-line forum discussion about what language teachers need to know about pronunciation, one unusual suggestion made was this, from David Deterding: We should teach them the Alpha Bravo Charlie…Wed, 3 Apr 2013, 12:12 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• a new sound
  I thought that for today I’d recycle a blog entry from seven years ago, seeing that it may well still be of interest. _ _ _ My colleague Olaf Lipor tells me that the International Phonetic Asssociatio…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 12:40 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com

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• Atherton
  The village of Atherton in Greater Manchester (formerly, in Lancashire) has recently been in the news. It is quite near where I grew up, so I am confident in saying that it is pronounced ˈæðətən. As w…Fri, 29 Mar 2013, 01:56 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• snow joke
  The Eastern Daily Press, published daily in Norwich, is the largest-selling regional morning newspaper in the UK. Peter Trudgill, the UK’s leading sociolinguist, comes from Norwich and is of course th…Wed, 27 Mar 2013, 01:00 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• Ansatz von Senilität
  One of the joys of continuing to try to educate oneself throughout life, even as one grows old, is that you’re for ever extending your vocabulary. My maths education ended at fourteen, when I had done…Mon, 25 Mar 2013, 01:10 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• met a what?
  On BBC4 TV recently there was an interesting programme entitled Metamorphoses. It was about animals that change their shape and/or lifestyle dramatically in the course of their lives: caterpillars tu…Fri, 22 Mar 2013, 01:55 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• villages possessed
  Writing about apostrophes in place names led me to realize that I haven’t ever discussed in my blog the question of the spelling of placenames in Montserrat, the West Indian island my partner comes fr…Thu, 21 Mar 2013, 12:36 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• apostrophes again
  It’s apostrophe-moral-panic time again. (For previous episodes, see for example my blog for 7 Dec 2011. ) As you may know, I am something of a campaigner AGAINST the possessive apostrophe. I am on rec…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 01:30 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• carrying dogs
  English intonation is at the interface of phonetics and pragmatics. To describe the tunes you have to be able to analyse the changing pitch of the voice and the associated stress patterns, which is ph…Fri, 15 Mar 2013, 03:06 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• ineptness in Rome
  I was not impressed yesterday evening by BBC TV’s live coverage of the long-awaited announcement from St Peter’s Square. Wouldn’t they have done better to send a commentator with at least just a very…Thu, 14 Mar 2013, 03:27 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• jejune
  ”If you’re tempted to use a fancy word, make sure first that you know what it means,” is excellent advice from the English teacher to the teenager writing an essay in school, but also a sensible maxim…Wed, 13 Mar 2013, 07:13 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• a prophetic patronymic?
  The minor prophet Hosea is known in BrE as həʊˈzɪə, rhyming with nonrhotic oh dear əʊ ˈdɪə. So is the eponymous book of the Old Testament and the corresponding (rare) forename. In LPD I gave the AmE…Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 12:59 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• what were all the row?
  I’ve had a song running tiresomely and unseasonably through my mind over the last few days, a song I don’t think I have heard or sung for sixty years or more, not in fact since we learnt to sing it wh…Fri, 8 Mar 2013, 02:36 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• skeletal
  The news we heard two or three weeks ago about the human remains identified as those of Richard III meant that several newscasters and commentators made use of the word skeletal. Those I heard on BBC…Wed, 6 Mar 2013, 02:11 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• canine
  I’m about to have one of my front teeth crowned, and my dentist asked me to visit the dental technician for him to determine the appropriate colour match. I did so, and was impressed by his evident ma…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 02:49 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• exotic spices
  That’s what a journalist wrote in the Guardian’s cookery supplement a few days ago (incidentally, getting the number concord wrong in elevate). Speak for yourself, I thought. Far from their changing t…Thu, 28 Feb 2013, 12:12 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com
• antimony
  In my first year at secondary school, which I entered at age 12½, we were given taster classes in science: an hour a week each of chemistry, biology, and physics. I remember that when the physics teac…Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 03:03 AM // phonetic-blog.blogspot.com

Natural Language Processing

• What is a sparse difference in probability distributions?
  Sparsity has been all the rage for a couple of years now. The standard notion of sparse vector u is that the number of non-zeros in u is small. This is simply the l_0 norm of u, ||u||_0. This norm is…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 07:36 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Teaching (intro, grad) NLP
  I had a post a while back on teaching ML that I still basically stand by.  I've taught intro grad NLP here at UMD twice now, and a sort-of-similar-course back at Utah once.  I find these courses reall…Thu, 27 Dec 2012, 08:56 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• NIPS stuff...
  NIPS is over as of last night.  Overall I thought the program was strong (though I think someone, somewhere, is trying to convince me I need to do deep learning -- or at least that was the topic d'jou…Sun, 9 Dec 2012, 11:15 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Sure, you can do that....
  I'll warn in advance that this is probably one of the more controversial posts I've written, but realize that my goal is really to raise questions, not necessarily give answers.  It's just more fun to…Wed, 26 Sep 2012, 07:24 AM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• Somehow I totally missed NIPS workshops!
  I don't know how it happened or when it happened, but at some point NIPS workshops were posted and papers are due about a week from now and I completely missed it!  The list of workshops is here:    h…Sat, 15 Sep 2012, 12:13 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• NAACL 2012 Retrospective
  Like many people, I spent last week in lovely Montreal (at least lovely for the second half) at NAACL.  Despite the somewhat unfortunate submission date, I thought the program this year was quite good…Wed, 13 Jun 2012, 03:32 PM // nlpers.blogspot.com
• 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

More

• 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
• 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

Talking Brains

• Motor control for speech versus non-speech vocal tract gestures
  Here is a pretty cool demo from the 1960s showing the dissociability of motor control during speech versus non-speech tongue movements.  Check it out!  Thanks to Ron Nutsell for pointing this out.Thu, 16 May 2013, 08:08 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Flying Pigs on National Public Radio: Promoting the wrong theory of language and understanding
  NPR aired an interview recently with Benjamin Bergen, UCSD cognitive scientist, discussing an embodied view of word meaning.  The basic idea is nothing new by now: we understand words by simulating ou…Thu, 9 May 2013, 03:04 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Post Doctoral Position - Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Obleser lab)
  The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig and the Max Planck Research Group “Auditory Cognition” (headed by Jonas Obleser) are now offering a Postdoctoral r…Thu, 2 May 2013, 01:31 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What is language?
  Daniel Everett recently gave a talk on his language-as-a-cultural-tool idea at our UC Irvine Center for Language Science.  (Here's a decent review of his recent book.)  It was an entertaining talk but…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 12:35 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• RTs: One-voxel neuroimaging?
  Yes! says Brad Buchsbaum in an entertaining and thought provoking post on his flowbrain blog.  Check out the post here.Fri, 22 Mar 2013, 07:24 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Postdoctoral position -- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
  Career Development Fellow (Postdoctoral position) MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU) is an internationally renowned research institu…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 07:33 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• FIVE POST-BAC RESEARCH POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
  The Dept of Linguistics at the U of Maryland, is looking to fill up to five full-time positions for post-baccalaureate researchers. Starting date for all positions is Summer/Fall 2013. Salary is comp…Thu, 14 Mar 2013, 08:56 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Cognitive Neuroscience Research Assistant / Lab Manager Position -- Moss Rehab,
  The Cognition and Action Lab at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI), a division of the Einstein Healthcare Network, has an opening beginning early summer of 2013 for a BA/BS- or Master’s-le…Tue, 19 Feb 2013, 11:53 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Post-Doctoral Position at Georgetown University Medical Center
  The Cognitive Recovery Lab invites applications for a post-doctoral position opening immediately. The lab is directed by Dr. Peter Turkeltaub and operates across Georgetown University Medical Center…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 04:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NYU/NYU-Abu Dhabi: Research assistant and post-doc positions
  1. Lab Manager/RA: 
Full-time Lab Manager position for the Marantz group at the NYU Neurolinguistics Laboratory, with responsibilities extending to the NYU Abu Dhabi Neuroscience of 
Language Laborat…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 04:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at Georgetown University
  The Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery and the laboratory of Professor Elissa Newport, director, are seeking a postdoctoral fellow capable of taking a leadership role in a new line of research…Mon, 7 Jan 2013, 09:32 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Post Doctoral and RA positions, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
  The Language and Aphasia Lab of MRRI (www.mrri.org) invites applications for expected openings at the postdoctoral and RA levels, starting Summer/Fall 2013.  Under the direction of Dr. Myrna Schwartz…Mon, 7 Jan 2013, 09:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• PhD scholarships and post-doctoral positions for 2013
  The Centre of Research Excellence in Child Language (CRE-CL) at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute invites applications for PhD scholarships and post-doctoral positions across a range of cuttin…Wed, 19 Dec 2012, 10:11 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Action Based Language - More on Glenberg and Gallese
  The core of Glenberg and Gallese's proposal is that language is grounded in a hierarchical state feedback control model, made possible, of course, by mirror neurons.  I actually think they are correct…Wed, 28 Nov 2012, 01:36 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Orthogonal acoustic dimensions define auditory field maps in human cortex
  Wow, this is the most blogging I've done in months.  This one is way off the topic of embodied cognition and mirror neurons (some of you will be relieved to hear) and in my view more important.  An in…Tue, 27 Nov 2012, 03:23 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Action-Based Language: A theory of language acquisition, comprehension, and production
  This is the paper by Glenberg and Gallese.  How could not skip ahead to this one?!  I mean, the title does seem to imply that it will provide the answer to how language works!  So let's dig in. Here's…Tue, 27 Nov 2012, 02:33 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Language and the Motor System - Editorial
  And another quote from the editorial: phonological features of speech sounds are reflected in motor cortex activation so that the action system likely plays a double role, both in programming articula…Tue, 27 Nov 2012, 09:19 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Cortex special issue: Language and the motor system
  Observation #1.  In the editorial Cappa and Pulvermuller write, Whereas the dominant view in classical aphasiology had been that superior temporal cortex (“Wernicke’s area”) provides the unique engin…Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 11:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Language and the Motor System
  This is the topic of a special issue of Cortex edited by Stefano Cappa and Friedemann Pulvermuller published just this year (Cortex, Vol. 48, Issue 7).  Let's work our way through what appears to be a…Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 10:48 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What does "cognitive" mean to you?
  Just curious... what counts as cognitive to you? I've been reading a bit of the embodied cognition literature and I find statements like this rather odd:  the traditional conceptualization of cognitio…Fri, 9 Nov 2012, 09:53 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Second International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, June 16-19, 2013 - Linköping, Sweden
  The first conference in 2011 was a real hit and has boosted research in the field. We believe that this second conference will be just as successful. Some of the themes addressed at the first confere…Fri, 9 Nov 2012, 08:29 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Research Assistant/Lab Manager position - Language Behavior and Brain Imaging Lab, Rutgers University
  A research assistant/lab manager position is available in the newly formed Language Behavior and Brain Imaging Lab at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Much of the research in the lab is devo…Fri, 26 Oct 2012, 03:13 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Two Open-Rank Tenure Track Jobs - Northeastern University
  Two Open-Rank Tenure Track Openings in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology The Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at Northeastern University announces two tenur…Thu, 25 Oct 2012, 08:14 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Three (count 'em) 3 tenure-track faculty positions -- Arizona State Univ., Dept of Speech & Hearing Sciences
  The Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University (SHS) announces openings for 3 tenure-track faculty positions at Full (Department Chair), Associate, and Assistant Professor r…Thu, 13 Sep 2012, 11:16 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Liberman and the Perception of the Speech Code
  Alvin Liberman is at the center of a scientific divide.  On the one hand, his work on the motor theory of speech perception has been elevated virtually to the status of gospel among those researchers…Mon, 27 Aug 2012, 11:25 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

Women Learning Thai

• Book Review: Maid in Thailand
  Book Review: Maid in Thailand (tri-lingual guide: English-Thai-Burmese)… When Kristen Rossi moved to Thailand she hired a Burmese housekeeper. I’ve never been brave enough – struggling with one Asian…Sun, 19 May 2013, 08:08 PM // feeds2.feedburner.com
• Successful Thai Language Learner: Philip Lattimore
  Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Philip Lattimore Nationality: English Age range: Early 50’s Sex: Male Location: Hat Yai Website: phil.uk.net: Learn to read Thai Profession: Retir…Sun, 12 May 2013, 06:11 PM // feeds2.feedburner.com
• Interview Compilation: How Soon Did You Tackle Reading and Writing Thai?
  How soon did you tackle reading and writing Thai?… A subject that repeatedly comes up on Thai language forums is the importance of learning to read and write Thai from the beginning. A small number do…Mon, 6 May 2013, 09:27 PM // feeds2.feedburner.com
• We Have ALL Five Thai Tones in English Too!
  We Have ALL Five Thai Tones in English Too!… I’m always running into foreigners learning Thai (or giving excuses on why they can’t learn Thai) who say, “I can’t hear the tones. English doesn’t have to…Wed, 1 May 2013, 02:47 AM // feeds2.feedburner.com

Polish Blog

• Time for fresh vegetables “Na straganie”
  Spring has finally come to New Hampshire…and it almost fells like summer now. With beautiful weather come fresh fruit and vegetables, so accordingly today’s post has something to do with that! Here is…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 03:37 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Tańcowała igła z nitką
  Today a very popular rhyme for kids about needle and thread dancing together:   Tańcowała igła z nitką Tańcowała igła z nitką, 
Igła – pięknie, nitka – brzydko. Igła cała jak z igiełki, 
Nitce plączą…Sun, 28 Apr 2013, 07:40 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Warsaw Ghetto memorial created by Jewish groups in Poland
  Jewish groups in Poland have condemned plans to locate a memorial to Polish “righteous” gentiles in the heart of what once was the Warsaw ghetto saying it would infringe upon the memory of murdered Je…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 08:27 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How Earth Day is celebrated around the world?
  Earth day (Dzień Ziemi) is the largest, most widely celebrated international environmental event (wydarzenie środowiskowe). Earth Day helps celebrate Earth’s unique place in the universe. It is the on…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 04:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Jak się masz?
  “Jak się masz” the Polish phrase is the English equivalent of “how are you”. I bet most of you know this phrase and it is probably one of the first ones to learn while studying Polish! However, I have…Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 03:02 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Talk to me in Korean

• Korean Vocab Power Up #3 / 딸기 = strawberry
  Download Available What is your favorite fruit? Do you like strawberries? Strawberry is 딸기 [ttal-gi] in Korean. If you already know the word 딸기, how about learning some more expressions that you can f…Tue, 21 May 2013, 02:57 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Catch The Wave (3 May 2013) / 번지수를 잘못 찾다, 말을 돌리다
  Every Friday at 6 PM (KST), you can listen to Hyunwoo and Adrien LIVE on the radio at ArirangRadio.com/CatchTheWave to learn new Korean expressions and listen to fun recordings sent in by listeners of…Sun, 19 May 2013, 09:02 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How Do You Say This in Korean? (17 May 2013)
  Download Available Welcome to the 12th episode of “How Do You Say This in Korean?”! In this series, teacher 경화 (Kyung-hwa) will be joined by a co-host of her choice each week to answer some listener q…Thu, 16 May 2013, 06:00 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• TTMIK Talk / Our Trip to the Philippines
  Two TTMIK teachers, Seokjin and Hyojin went to the Philippines on a trip, along with some other bloggers from Korea. This trip was fully sponsored by the Philippine Department of Tourism and they had…Thu, 16 May 2013, 08:59 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Catch The Wave (26 April 2013) / 병 주고 약 주다, 가방 끈이 짧다
  Every Friday at 6 PM (KST), you can listen to Hyunwoo and Adrien LIVE on the radio at ArirangRadio.com/CatchTheWave to learn new Korean expressions and listen to fun recordings sent in by listeners of…Sun, 12 May 2013, 10:40 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Free Seminar in Seoul – 19 May 2013 @ Kyobo Bookstore (Gwanghwamun)
  We’re having our first bookstore seminar next weekend! Thanks to all of you who study through our lessons, we have published four textbooks so far, which are already available in major bookstores in K…Fri, 10 May 2013, 09:28 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Korean Vocab Power Up #2 / 견인 = tow
  Download Available Have you ever had your car towed away? Nobody likes to have their car towed away when it’s just parked somewhere. But it happens to a lot of people, at some point in life, for vario…Wed, 8 May 2013, 12:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Iyagi #146 / 분실 / Losing Things / Natural talk in 100% Korean
  Download Available No one likes to lose things, but it happens. When you have lost something that you were carrying, you can say 잃어 버렸어요, or in a more formal expression, 분실했어요. So in this episode of I…Mon, 6 May 2013, 06:00 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• [Ask Hyojin] Terris’s Culture Shock in Korea
  Download Available If you’ve ever lived abroad, you must have experienced at least some culture shock resulting from two cultures being very different. Terris is now studying abroad in Korea and he ha…Sun, 5 May 2013, 07:10 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How Do You Say This in Korean? (4 May 2013)
  Download Available Welcome to the 11th episode of “How Do You Say This in Korean?”! In this series, teacher 경화 (Kyung-hwa) will be joined by a co-host of her choice each week to answer some listener q…Sat, 4 May 2013, 06:13 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

Education Week

• Fort Wayne schools want 3rd party to review ISTEP
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• Chicago Board of Ed to vote on 53 school closings
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• Lawmaker says they have tentative education deal
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• Minn.'s Dayton signs $15.7B education bill
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• Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.
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• Ore. student in wheelchair can't get in at prom
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• Ohio school shooting victims' families sue charity
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• NJ judge rejects protest in school bullying ruling
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• Teachers Gear Up for Science Standards
  Even though no state has yet adopted the standards, some teachers have already scrapped old lessons and instructional styles to embrace new ones. Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:06 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Science Framework Seen as Valued Resource for Educators
  The blueprint for the standards writers, the framework provides a reader-friendly accompaniment to the technical document. Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:06 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

More

• D.C. Bets Big on Common Core
  The District of Columbia has devoted many resources to the standards, resulting in hopes, frustrations, and the knowledge that changes are necessary. Tue, 21 May 2013, 03:14 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Eighth Grader Looks Ahead to High School and Beyond
  Mikel Robinson is among millions of students trying to meet the common standards. Tue, 21 May 2013, 03:11 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Glimpses of Poverty Lead Administrator to Education
  Now Brian Pick has the challenge of ensuring students, many of them disadvantaged, master the common core. Tue, 21 May 2013, 03:09 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Teacher Finds Salvation in the Classroom
  When Dowan McNair-Lee took an education class at college, she knew that was where she belonged. Tue, 21 May 2013, 03:05 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• States Pressing Schools to Add 'Intruder' Drills
  Proposed mandates for emergency-preparedness drills are gaining traction in many state houses. Tue, 21 May 2013, 02:36 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NC House panel hosts public debate on voucher bill
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 12:34 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The Metric System and Common Core
  The unsuccessful drive to teach the metric system in schools presents a cautionary tale about teacher buy-in for common-core advocates, writes Jeanne Zaino. Tue, 21 May 2013, 12:08 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Blogs of the Week
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• How to Make School Funding Fair
  Shifting to statewide school funding systems would address inequities in the way education is paid for, writes Cynthia G. Brown. Tue, 21 May 2013, 10:45 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Creating Learning Spaces for a New Age of Discovery
  School environments should fulfill a student's need to feel engaged intellectually and emotionally in the learning process, Jim Childress writes. Tue, 21 May 2013, 10:45 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• K-12 Impacts Likely in N.J., Va., Governor Races
  Candidates sketch competing education-policy visions in New Jersey and Virginia, the two states picking governors in 2013. Tue, 21 May 2013, 10:41 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Baton Rouge Struggles to Keep Control of Schools
  Efforts to create a new school district and reshuffle students in East Baton Rouge Parish are causing a stir in Louisiana. Tue, 21 May 2013, 10:36 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Study Backs Dual-Language Pre-Ks for ELLs
  Preschool English-learners benefit from exposure to both English and their home language, say researchers. Tue, 21 May 2013, 10:32 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Teenagers Are Wired for Peer Approval, Says Study
  Researchers now have biological evidence that adolescents really do want to jump off a bridge if their friends are doing it. Tue, 21 May 2013, 10:21 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Hawaii gets approval for education law waiver
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:14 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Nevada all-day kindergarten bill removes mandate
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:13 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NC public school grant bill lauded by proponents
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:13 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ala. Legislature rejects Bentley's 2-year-delay
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:13 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Detroit district expands summer school academy
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:09 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Teachers call for ouster of RI commissioner
  Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:09 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Windows XP Deadline Puts Pressure on Schools
  Microsoft's plans to end support for Windows XP could pose big technological and financial challenges for districts nationwide. Tue, 21 May 2013, 04:21 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Common-Core Tests in Works for Students With Severe Disabilities
  Two groups of states are crafting unique assessments for students with severe cognitive disabilities. Tue, 21 May 2013, 04:18 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Police: Oklahoma School Directly Hit By Tornado
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 03:04 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Audit: DOE skipped steps in monitoring charters
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 12:41 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ohio school chief sues board, claims defamation
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 12:39 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Classroom curriculum system dies amid criticism
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 12:39 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Alabama House rejects Bentley's 2-year-delay
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 12:39 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 12:39 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• GM giving paid internships to 110 HS students
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 12:39 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Chicago Teachers' Union Re-Elects Karen Lewis
  Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis was re-elected to a second three-year term Friday, according to unofficial results released by the district. Mon, 20 May 2013, 06:59 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Proposed school would advance language study
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:44 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Lawmakers advance teacher residency program
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:43 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Karen Lewis re-elected teachers union president
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:43 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Neb. lawmakers to review school breakfast programs
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:40 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Education provision muddies Kan. budget talks
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:40 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Most ND school districts fail to meet standards
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:37 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Chicago Teachers Union begins 3-day citywide march
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:37 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ala. video highlights dropout prevention efforts
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:32 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ala. bond issues pending on Legislature's last day
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:32 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Innovative schools share ideas to improve learning
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:32 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Interest in charter schools soars in B.R.
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:28 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Clark County teachers hoping to become 'losers'
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:28 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• SD school sharing plan moving slower than hoped
  Mon, 20 May 2013, 05:22 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The Common Core Needs a Common Curriculum
  The content of instruction should be a communal, research-based, and experience-based decision, writes Lisa Hansel. Mon, 20 May 2013, 04:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Schools Face Shortage of Digital Curricula for English-Learners
  To help individualize lessons, teachers often rely on digital curricula used for all students as well as software programs tailored for English-language learners. Sun, 19 May 2013, 09:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Video Content Provider Market Expanding
  As digital video becomes a more popular educational tool, the companies and organizations that provide such content are becoming more diverse. Sun, 19 May 2013, 09:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Digital Trends Shifting the Role of Teachers
  Interactive tools and multimedia content are prompting teachers to take on more of a coaching or guiding role in the classroom. Sun, 19 May 2013, 09:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills
  Many educators are explicitly teaching online research skills, such as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines. Sun, 19 May 2013, 09:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ed. Schools Lag Behind Digital Content Trends
  Teacher education institutions risk becoming obsolete if they do not do a better job preparing future teachers to use digital curricula, experts say. Sun, 19 May 2013, 09:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 'Personal Learning Environments' Focus on the Individual
  But defining what exactly a personal learning environment, or PLE, is supposed to look like is proving to be challenging. Sun, 19 May 2013, 09:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Digital Video Transforms Teaching Practices
  The growing availability of digital video sparked the 'flipped classroom' movement, but identifying quality video content is still a challenge. Sun, 19 May 2013, 09:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Neb high court: Search of student's truck improper
  Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:40 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Spain's government aims to reform school education
  Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:40 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Money panels close major K-12 budgets
  Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:40 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Hawaii schools scale back extended learning time
  Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:40 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Pa. school board makes no decision on name request
  Fri, 17 May 2013, 09:22 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Task force looking at Wyo. school security issues
  Fri, 17 May 2013, 09:22 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Bill promotes violence-awareness in Calif. schools
  Fri, 17 May 2013, 05:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Do New Exams Produce Better Teachers? States Act While Educators Debate
  Some educators say evidence is lacking on whether new performance assessments are creating better teachers, according to this article from Education Week content partner The Hechinger Report. Fri, 17 May 2013, 04:58 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Calif. Struggles to Assess Teacher-Training Programs
  After students leave schools of education, and after years of reforms, Calif. institutions often have no way of ascertaining if their programs produced strong teachers. Fri, 17 May 2013, 04:58 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NJEA leader, a Christie foil, is stepping down
  Thu, 16 May 2013, 12:32 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Neb. Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit rejected
  Thu, 16 May 2013, 10:09 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• House to take up student loan fix
  Thu, 16 May 2013, 05:26 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Local schools owed $30M because of court ruling
  Thu, 16 May 2013, 05:26 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Local schools owed $30M because of court ruling
  Wed, 15 May 2013, 12:41 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ala. governor wants 2-year delay on tax credits
  Wed, 15 May 2013, 12:41 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• OH House widens pool of 3rd-grade reading teachers
  Wed, 15 May 2013, 12:41 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Bill to make Mich. fund schools' mascot changes
  Wed, 15 May 2013, 12:41 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Higher EdWatch

• The Next Generation University
  With the economy stuck in neutral, tuition prices and student loan debt skyrocketing, and parents and students increasingly questioning the value of a college degree, our public institutions urgently…Mon, 20 May 2013, 03:57 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Commentary on the Student Loan Interest Rate Debate
  Be sure to check out this op-ed on Yahoo Finance regarding Senator Warren's proposal to cut interest rates on federal student loans.This Ed Money Watch post has a rundown of all of the pending proposa…Sat, 18 May 2013, 05:50 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• “High-Tuition, High Aid” Hurts Low-income Students at Public U’s
  [The New America Foundation's Education Policy Program recently released Undermining Pell: How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind, a report that presents a new analy…Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:48 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Why Act When You Can Ask For A(nother) Study? House Kicks the Can On Better College Data
   For more on this issue, check out this post from Clare McCann on our sister blog, Ed Money Watch.For those who care about increased higher education transparency, the last few days have been a trip t…Tue, 14 May 2013, 11:49 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Playing the Merit Aid Game at Public Universities
  [Last week the New America Foundation's Education Policy Program released Undermining Pell: How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind, a report that presents a new anal…Fri, 10 May 2013, 10:26 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Guest Post: Don't Let Congress Off the Hook for "Undermining Pell"
  [This post ran first on the Three Capitals blog]By Jon H. ObergThe Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation has published an accurate, unblinking look at the sorry state of the country's…Thu, 9 May 2013, 12:25 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• The Academic Graveyard Shift: IRS Provides Guidance on Identifying Institutional Peers
  “Do not pass go, do not collect $200,” the harsh cliché made ubiquitous by Monopoly, is essentially what the Internal Revenue Service told a group of universities recently. A special report from the I…Tue, 7 May 2013, 01:51 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Paying a High Price for Prestige at Private Colleges
  [Last week the New America Foundation's Education Policy Program released Undermining Pell: How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind, a report that presents a new anal…Fri, 3 May 2013, 10:29 AM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• A Better Way to Measure a College's Commitment to Serving Low-Income Students
  [Yesterday the New America Foundation's Education Policy Program released Undermining Pell: How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind, a report that presents a new anal…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 12:22 PM // higheredwatch.newamerica.net
• Undermining Pell
  Nearly fifty years ago, the federal government committed itself to removing the financial barriers that prevent low-income students from enrolling in and completing college. Colleges for years complem…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 08:38 AM // 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

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• 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

• Transparency Watch: Federal ELL Clearinghouse Remains in Limbo
  The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing, for a second time, whether it followed federal contracting rules in a competition for a $1.5 million contract to manage the National Clearinghouse for En…Wed, 22 May 2013, 07:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
  
• Undocumented Asian Youth Seek Higher Profile in Immigration Debate
  Young Asian immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children have launched a social media campaign to raise the profile of undocumented Asian youths in the broader debate over im…Mon, 20 May 2013, 11:06 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Dual Language in Early Education Best for Youngest ELLs, Report Says
  Researchers recommend expansion of dual-language development in early-childhood programs in a new research review out today.Tue, 14 May 2013, 07:29 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Immigration Bill: What Happens to Youngest Undocumented Children?
  In the current version of bipartisan legislation to reform the nation's immigration system, the youngest undocumented children would have to wait as long as their parents to seek a path to citizenship…Mon, 13 May 2013, 10:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Unaccompanied Minors Crossing Border Has Tripled, Report Finds
  The numbers of undocumented children crossing into the United States alone has tripled since 2008, even as the number of adult immigrants entering illegally has fallen sharply.Mon, 13 May 2013, 08:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Latino College Enrollment Outpacing Whites, Report Finds
  A record number of Hispanic high school graduates in 2012 went on to pursue higher education, outstripping enrollment of white graduates.Thu, 9 May 2013, 02:20 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• English-Language Learners, Common Core, and Literacy
  Two members of the Understanding Language initiative at Stanford University will present resources and strategies for teaching the common core in English/language arts and literacy to English-learners…Tue, 7 May 2013, 07:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• English-Learners Need More Philanthrophic Investment, Report Says
  An analysis shows that philanthropic investments in programs and services specifically for English-learners don't come close to matching the magnitude of the population.Thu, 2 May 2013, 11:20 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• A Closer Look at ELL Assessment Group Led by Oregon
  ELPA 21 is an 11-state group working to design new English-language proficiency assessments that are tied to the Common Core State Standards.Fri, 26 Apr 2013, 01:15 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Calif. Neglecting Thousands of English-Learners, Lawsuit Claims
  The American Civil Liberties Union alleges in a lawsuit that California education officials are failing to provide legally required language instruction to ELLs in more than 250 school districts.Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 01:10 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Immigration Measure Would Ease Path to Citizenship for DREAMERs
  Bipartisan bill offers a speedier route to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 11:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• PARCC Releases Draft Policy on ELL Accommodations
  PARCC will seek public comment for 30 days on its draft policy for testing accommodations for English-learners and students with disabilities.Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 09:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• English-Learners Need Federal Commission, Suggests MALDEF Chief
  Thomas A. Saenz says that the fast-growing population of English-language learners and their needs deserve more federal attention.Mon, 15 Apr 2013, 12:25 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• English-Learners and the New Science Standards
  The final set of new science standards presents an unprecedented opportunity for English-language learners to learn rich, academic language at the same time they are learning rigorous science content,…Wed, 10 Apr 2013, 11:10 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Hartford Schools, Civil Rights Officials Agree on Services for ELLs
  The U.S. Department of Education will oversee the comprehensive agreement through the 2014-15 school year.Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 07:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

Teaching English

• ELTons awards ceremony livestreamed on Wednesday 22nd May 2013
  Watch the ELTons ceremony live on the British Council website http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org on Wednesday 22nd May and discover this year's winners.read moreMon, 20 May 2013, 06:02 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Kaleidescope
  Kaleidescope is an exciting new series of teaching materials that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The seri…Thu, 16 May 2013, 03:24 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• IATEFL blog award for best coverage
  This year the British Council invited ELT bloggers interested in reporting on the annual IATEFL conference to become a 'Liverpool Online Registered Blogger'.As many of you know, TeachingEnglish has a…Thu, 16 May 2013, 02:52 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Kaleidescope - Belfast
  Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry o…Tue, 14 May 2013, 06:39 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Kaleidescope - Cardiff
  Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry o…Tue, 14 May 2013, 06:26 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Kaleidescope - Edinburgh
  Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry o…Tue, 14 May 2013, 05:20 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• In English Digital 6
  Here is the latest edition of InEnglish Digital is the British Council’s e-zine written for English language teaching professionals from around the Lusophone Portuguese-speak world - but it will also…Mon, 13 May 2013, 05:56 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Featured blog of the month for April
  Our latest featured blog of the month is David Deubelbeiss's 50 ways to use music and song from his excellent blog http://community.eflclassroom.com.As you might expect from the title, his post provi…Mon, 13 May 2013, 01:13 AM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• The English Effect - How can you get involved?
  'The English Effect' is an exhibition exploring the English language in the world today and is on display at the British Council in London until 30read moreTue, 7 May 2013, 12:54 PM // teachingenglish.org.uk
• Who is your favourite character in Pride and Prejudice?
  Elizabeth Bennet Jane Bennet Mr Bennet Mr Darcy Mr Bingley Other Sun, 5 May 2013, 03:12 PM // teachingenglish.org.uk

The Freire Project

• Education as Instrument or as Empowerment? Untangling White Privilege in the Politics of Ethnic Studies –The Tucson Unified Scho
  Many of my undergraduate students enter higher education expecting to learn all the answers to life’s big questions, and they are often surprised to hear me declare that with one exception there are n…Mon, 17 Dec 2012, 06:09 AM // freireproject.org
• Unholy Matrimony: A Critical Analysis of Five Bridal Magazines
  Abstract Media Literacy read moreWed, 5 Dec 2012, 11:35 AM // freireproject.org
• Romney’s “Self-Deportation” as the Epitome of Neoliberal Nativism
  It is clear that in this election cycle, the topic of immigration will not determine the outcome.  The economy, healthcare, taxes, and foreign policy will provide enough contrast to determine for most…Mon, 5 Nov 2012, 02:55 PM // freireproject.org
• Hugging pathologized & punished in Western Australian primary school: WTF?
   A Western Australian State school has banned hugging because, amongst other things, This behaviour was getting out of control with students hugging each other several times a day, and this was becomi…Fri, 2 Nov 2012, 03:20 PM // freireproject.org
• Check out the Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop with Dr. Bettina Love
  Check out the Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop with Dr.Bettina Love       Fri, 2 Nov 2012, 08:30 AM // freireproject.org
• The Journal of Asian Critical Education (Fall 2012)
  Volume 1, Issue 1 JACE, The Journal of Asian Critical Education, is available for download. Download PDF File  JACE (The Journal of Asian Critical Education) is a peer reviewed publication of the Asia…Thu, 1 Nov 2012, 10:14 PM // freireproject.org
• Michael Apple's planned address to Victorian principals cancelled
   After a public lecture that apparently sent a few tremors through Victorian  Education Department officials in the audience, a planned address to Victorian school principals by Michael Apple has been…Tue, 30 Oct 2012, 03:34 PM // freireproject.org
• common core standards in the U.S.
   Does anyone know of dynamic speakers that can discuss urban education and the U.S. common core standards? Sun, 28 Oct 2012, 02:58 PM // freireproject.org
• 2013 Sprinkle Call for Papers
   Please visit the Sprinkle facebook page for updated information about the upcoming issue:   Sprinkle Thu, 18 Oct 2012, 12:23 PM // freireproject.org
• Call for Abstracts for Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy
    read moreMon, 27 Aug 2012, 10:09 AM // freireproject.org

Educational justice

• Choosing Democracy: Census Bureau ranks California 36th in school spe...
  Choosing Democracy: Census Bureau ranks California 36th in school spe...: California’s  per-pupil spending was $1,421 below the national average in 2011, placing  it 36th in the nation... Educational…Wed, 22 May 2013, 12:45 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
  
• Choosing Democracy: Minimum funding level for schools increased in May...
  Choosing Democracy: Minimum funding level for schools increased in May...: Report of the California Budget Project 5/16/2013 Increased Revenues Boost the Minimum... Educational Justice - stuff about t…Thu, 16 May 2013, 06:31 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Choosing Democracy: k-12 Education Budget- The Governor's May Revise
  Choosing Democracy: k-12 Education Budget- The Governor's May Revise: California. The Governor’s May Revise. Education Funding- From Dept. of Finance. With the passage of Proposition 30, the 2012... E…Tue, 14 May 2013, 11:57 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Excellent new TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson on schools and creativity
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 50 287 CSUS 2 1 352 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregat…Fri, 10 May 2013, 09:19 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Walmart heirs invest in Rhee's Students First
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 368 2098 CSUS 17 4 2576 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, eco…Thu, 2 May 2013, 11:31 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Choosing Democracy: Rhee strikes again - in California
  Choosing Democracy: Rhee strikes again - in California: This morning's Sacramento  Bee has a full page ad directed at the California Senate Education Committee.  It claims to be in favor... Educationa…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 07:47 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Michelle Rhee, Once More, Fast and Loose with the Truth | California Progress Report
  Michelle Rhee, Once More, Fast and Loose with the Truth | California Progress Report Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice, m…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 01:32 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Choosing Democracy: Michelle Rhee's group endorses anti-gay legislator...
  Choosing Democracy: Michelle Rhee's group endorses anti-gay legislator...: Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst is putting together quite the record as far as legislators it selects as reformer of the... Edu…Sat, 27 Apr 2013, 08:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Rhee's Credibility Questioned as High-Stakes Testing is Exposed Again | California Progress Report
  Rhee's Credibility Questioned as High-Stakes Testing is Exposed Again | California Progress Report Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, econo…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 12:04 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Market based reforms don't work
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 174 992 CSUS 8 1 1218 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, econo…Sat, 20 Apr 2013, 10:33 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Reshaping Education: New Opportunities for Teachers Unions | California Progress Report
  Reshaping Education: New Opportunities for Teachers Unions | California Progress Report Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 10:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• The Crumbling of Corporate School "Reform" | California Progress Report
  The Crumbling of Corporate School Reform | California Progress Report- Randy Shaw Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice, musi…Wed, 3 Apr 2013, 10:28 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Education activists Opt Out
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 318 1818 CSUS 15 3 2232 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, eco…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 03:21 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Corporate education reform threatens San Francisco Community College
  CORPORATE EDUCATION REFORM HITS SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE By David Bacon Truthout... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic just…Tue, 26 Mar 2013, 07:41 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Teacher Lay Offs Reduced
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 359 2050 CSUS 17 4 2517 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, eco…Sat, 16 Mar 2013, 08:28 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Republican austerity campaign hurts kids/ schools
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 591 3371 CSUS 28 6 4139 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, eco…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 12:32 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• There is no democracy here !
  This is an  initial analysis of some of the issues in Massive-on line education  MOOC as advocated by Jerry Brown in place of adequately funding higher education. Geoff... Educational Justice - stuff…Wed, 20 Feb 2013, 08:55 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• What You Need to Know About the Seattle Teachers' Rebellion and the Deeply Flawed Test That Inspired It | Alternet
  What You Need to Know About the Seattle Teachers' Rebellion and the Deeply Flawed Test That Inspired It | Alternet Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, dese…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 08:21 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• California school budgets improve, remain below 2007-2008.
  Important report on the state budget. State spending per K-12 student will rise in the current (2012-13) fiscal year and in 2013-14 due to voter approval of two revenue measures... Educational Justice…Sun, 3 Feb 2013, 08:05 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• School closings may violate civil rights
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 877 5002 CSUS 41 10 6142 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, ec…Sun, 3 Feb 2013, 08:03 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Governor Brown's views on school reform
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 671 3828 CSUS 31 7 4701 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, eco…Fri, 25 Jan 2013, 11:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Test Scores reveal little about U.S. schools.
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 23 133 CSUS 1 1 163 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregat…Fri, 18 Jan 2013, 02:01 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NEA Members support laws to reduce gun violence
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 400 2285 CSUS 19 4 2806 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, eco…Fri, 18 Jan 2013, 11:07 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• If they arm teachers...
  Normal.dotm 0 0 1 28 162 CSUS 1 1 198 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions... Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregat…Mon, 14 Jan 2013, 07:25 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Multicultural Conference
  Educational Justice - stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, economic justice, music, creativity, and building progressive movements for social justice and educatio…Tue, 25 Dec 2012, 04:26 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Schools Matter

• We Have Moved!
  NOTICE: On April 22, 2013, SM merged with @the chalkface. Find us at our new home: atthechalkface.com. All Schools Matter previous posts are archived there, but we will leave this site up, too, as a s…Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 05:07 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• America Awakening to Refreshing New Possibility: Tell Bill Gates to Take His Money and Go to Hell
  When the LA Times starts having doubts about the wisdom of His Aged Geekiness, Billy Gates, then you have to know the worm is turning quickly.  After all, it was the LA Times that published Gates-appr…Fri, 19 Apr 2013, 03:32 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Schools Matter and @thechalkface to Join Forces
  Schools Matter will be moving to a new home in a few days.  We will be partnering with @thechalkface to begin a renewed and re-fortified effort to eradicate high stake testing and corporate control fr…Fri, 19 Apr 2013, 08:19 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• New Orleans Shows the Limitations of "No Excuses" Schools
  The debate over No Excuses schools has focused on their attrition rate and their potential for being scaled up. Schools such as New Orleans Sci Academy have produced great college acceptance rates for…Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 08:54 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Coverage of Opt Out's Occupy DOE 2.0
  From Education Opportunity Network:_______________________Occupy The Department Of Education Ushers In America’s Angry SpringNo offense, but the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education building…Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 07:24 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Common core: An attempt to solve a problem that doesn't exist
  No decline in readingSent to the Cincinnati EnquirerThe first line of “Common Core a ‘monumental shift’”(April 16, 2013) is not supported by any real data. There is no evidence that “reading has been…Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 10:54 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Will the common core claim credit for bogus test score improvement?
  Sent to the New York Daily News.We have been told that the new tests based on the common core will result in low scores (“Just what the kids need,” April 15). What has not been mentioned is that new t…Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 08:15 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Is there really a crisis in science and math education?
  Sent to the Austin-American Statesman, April 16, 2013Lonny Stern’s claim that “Investment in science, math is good business” (April 15) is based on his assertion that there are 2.5 STEM jobs available…Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 03:43 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Duncan Celebrates Three Decades of Failed Testing and Accountability Policies
  On April 16, it will have been 30 years since the publication of A Nation at Risk (ANAR), the discredited scare document produced by the Reaganites in 1983 to introduce the beginning of the end of pub…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 12:06 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Michelle Rhee's Situational Ethics
  The immediate takeaway of Michelle Rhee's Reign of Error is that PBS's John Merrow found “the smoking gun,” or the confidential memo warning Michelle Rhee of the extent of cheating that may have occur…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 10:23 AM // schoolsmatter.info

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• Evaluations Based on Test Scores Goes to Court in Florida
  Take heart, teachers.  Be brave.  Emulate your colleagues in Florida.  Go to Court!  By the way, Randi and Dennis, you could be using some of those high-priced AFT/NEA lawyers who protect your 400 tho…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 07:01 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Tennessee Republicans Trade Local Control for Corporate Domination
  If there's anything Tennessee conservatives hate more than minorities who refuse to serve as doormats, it is anything public that is not controlled by corporate overlords.  Local control?  Only if cor…Mon, 15 Apr 2013, 09:50 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Chicago Corporate Media Ignore Teachers' CORE Candidates
  At this point in the U. S., there is one urban teachers' union that represents the social justice agenda of equal opportunity, quality public schools for all, and quality professional teaching before…Mon, 15 Apr 2013, 09:32 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Exxon-Mobil Concerned with Teachers As Its Tar Sands Oil Spreads in Arkansas
  If you were watching golf for the past 4 days, you would see hundreds of millions spent by Exxon-Mobil to push the Common Core Corporate Standards and to convince Americans there is some educational e…Mon, 15 Apr 2013, 05:38 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Former KIPP Principal Demonstrates Why Honesty Should Be Added to the KIPP Character Trait List
  Former KIPP stallion, Elliot Witney, has somehow earned a spot across from Deborah Meier at the Bridging Differences blog (surely thre's no Gates influence in that decision by Ed Week).  And the first…Sun, 14 Apr 2013, 08:37 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Rhee’s “Gravy Train" of Hypocrisy
  Former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee had trouble recalling the names of South Carolina’s 'key players' after a quick visit to the State House on Wednesday. But state lawmakers may…Sun, 14 Apr 2013, 07:01 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• The Profession That Left Gerald Conti
    Gerald Gerald Conti’s retirement letterConti LetterSat, 13 Apr 2013, 07:43 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Michelle Rhee Is Done
   Read The Memo!All That RemainsChris Hayes interviews John Merrow below on the bombshell memo and the fallout, and below that is John Merrow's story:Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, an…Sat, 13 Apr 2013, 07:43 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Corporate Feeding Frenzy Continues in Fragmented Memphis Schools
  When Bill Gates came to Memphis in 2009 with $90 million in handouts for every corrupt politician in the city and county, Memphis public schools were doomed.  This outcome was further assured by succe…Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 09:49 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• The New Republic Provides Wedding Details for Randi Weingarten and Bill Gates
  To the 800,000 K12 teachers who are paying dues for AFT union support:Your union dues are not going to protect you and your students from the corporate onslaught by efficiency zealots, privateers, and…Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 06:13 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Tennessee's Latest Stupidity: Take Food Away from Hungry Kids for Not Passing the State Test
  I was in my hometown of Erin, TN for their Irish Day Celebration in March, and I was talking to an old friend of mine, now a judge.  It occurred to both of as we were talking that when we were growing…Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 01:15 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Common CORPORATE State Standards
  Wonder who will benefit from adopting, implementing, and testing the Common Core?Look no further than the COVER of Education Week:Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 09:58 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Opt Out's Four Day Occupation Video Archive
  In mid-livestream, you might say.  Find other speeches here.Watch live streaming video from califather at livestream.comThu, 11 Apr 2013, 05:03 AM // schoolsmatter.info
• Arne Duncan's Next $5 Billion Corporate Bonanza Based on Same Mythology
  For years the ostensible guru of value-added testing, Bill Sanders, told anyone who would listen that teachers are the most important factor influencing student achievement.  When Richard Rothstein, G…Wed, 10 Apr 2013, 07:40 PM // schoolsmatter.info
• Conservative "Reformers" Oppose and then Support Standardized Testing
  Chester Finn’s “Accountability Dilemmas,” in the Fordham Flypaper, seems to be an example of a conservative “reformer” acknowledging at least some of the failure of bubble-in reform. Finn recognizes t…Wed, 10 Apr 2013, 06:47 AM // schoolsmatter.info

ESL Podcast Blog

• Five Questions: American Life
  In the late ’90s, there was a popular comedy show host who would ask his celebrity (famous) guests (people invited to appear on the show) five questions at the end of his show. The questions were usua…Tue, 21 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• Podcasts This Week (May 20, 2013)
  Get the full benefits of ESL Podcast by getting the Learning Guide. We designed the Learning Guide to help you learn English better and faster. Get more vocabulary, language explanations, sample sente…Mon, 20 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• What Makes Us Happy?
  A few weeks ago Jeff asked “What does it mean to be happy?” Today I’d like to ask a related question – what makes us happy? – and find an answer in an unusual source. Seventy-five years ago, in 1938,…Thu, 16 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• Who’s Swatting Me Now?
  I feel sorry for celebrities. All of that wealth (money), admiration (people liking and respecting you), and influence. What a sad life. And there is now a new reason to pity (feel bad for the sufferi…Tue, 14 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• Podcasts This Week (May 13, 2013)
  Get the full benefits of ESL Podcast by getting the Learning Guide. We designed the Learning Guide to help you learn English better and faster. Get more vocabulary, language explanations, sample sente…Mon, 13 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• Street Vendors
  Every city has people selling things on the street. After all, where can you find more foot traffic (people walking by) than on a city’s sidewalks? New York City would be a very different place if it…Thu, 9 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• So Why Is “So” So Popular?
  So I wanted to write something about the use of the word “so” to begin a sentence. Traditionally the word “so” in English has served (been used for) a couple of purposes. You can say “so” as a conjunc…Tue, 7 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• Podcasts This Week (May 6, 2013)
  What did you say? Can you repeat that? Are you tired of not understand what you hear? Understand every word on our podcasts by getting a complete transcript. You’ll also get more vocabulary, language…Mon, 6 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• They Come Bearing* Gifts
  When you are invited to someone’s house, let’s say for dinner, is it the custom (common practice) in your country to take a gift? In the U.S. it’s considered the polite thing to do. They’re called hos…Thu, 2 May 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com
• Dating Just Got More Complicated
  A man or a woman asks you out on a date. You have coffee, lunch, or dinner together. You find out more about each other. You fall in love and you live happily ever after (forever), right? Well, things…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 01:00 AM // eslpod.com

Using English

• True blue
  New Entry: 'True blue' has just been added to the Idioms area of UsingEnglish.com.Sun, 19 May 2013, 01:22 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• I had lunch ____ a restaurant.
  New Entry: 'I had lunch ____ a restaurant.' has just been added to the Language Polls area of UsingEnglish.com.Sat, 18 May 2013, 07:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How to teach and use the language of newspaper headlines
  New Entry: 'How to teach and use the language of newspaper headlines' has just been added to the Articles area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 14 May 2013, 02:28 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• WUF
  New Entry: 'WUF' has just been added to the Chatlish area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Mon, 13 May 2013, 08:36 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Canny
  New Entry: 'Canny' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Mon, 13 May 2013, 08:33 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Responding to Requests- Politeness Completion Game [PDF]
  New Entry: 'Responding to Requests- Politeness Completion Game' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Mon, 13 May 2013, 08:21 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fine as frog's hair
  New Entry: 'Fine as frog's hair' has just been added to the Idioms area of UsingEnglish.com.Fri, 10 May 2013, 09:26 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Team up
  New Entry: 'Team up' has just been added to the Phrasal Verbs area of UsingEnglish.com.Fri, 10 May 2013, 09:23 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fish and chips
  New Entry: 'Fish and chips' has just been added to the Cockney Rhyming Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Tue, 7 May 2013, 08:49 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• DLTM
  New Entry: 'DLTM' has just been added to the Chatlish area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Tue, 7 May 2013, 08:46 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Quick on the draw
  New Entry: 'Quick on the draw' has just been added to the Idioms area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 7 May 2013, 08:10 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• IELTS Speaking Part One- Errors & Questions by Topic [PDF]
  New Entry: 'IELTS Speaking Part One- Errors & Questions by Topic' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 7 May 2013, 08:06 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• She came closer than anyone to ____ the answer, but failed in the end.
  New Entry: 'She came closer than anyone to ____ the answer, but failed in the end.' has just been added to the Language Polls area of UsingEnglish.com.Mon, 6 May 2013, 08:27 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How the hog ate the cabbage
  New Entry: 'How the hog ate the cabbage' has just been added to the Idioms area of UsingEnglish.com.Sun, 5 May 2013, 12:17 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Calm your tits
  New Entry: 'Calm your tits' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Sat, 4 May 2013, 05:32 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• SII
  New Entry: 'SII' has just been added to the Chatlish area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Thu, 2 May 2013, 09:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Academic English- Classifying Functions [PDF]
  New Entry: 'Academic English- Classifying Functions' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Thu, 2 May 2013, 09:28 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How to teach checking and clarifying
  New Entry: 'How to teach checking and clarifying' has just been added to the Articles area of UsingEnglish.com.Wed, 1 May 2013, 01:49 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• I'm ____ two minds about it.
  New Entry: 'I'm ____ two minds about it.' has just been added to the Language Polls area of UsingEnglish.com.Wed, 1 May 2013, 10:22 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• English for Special Purposes- Engineering Vocabulary List- Dictation & Speaking [PDF]
  New Entry: 'English for Special Purposes- Engineering Vocabulary List- Dictation & Speaking' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 12:26 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Cobblers
  New Entry: 'Cobblers' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Fri, 26 Apr 2013, 09:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Future Predictions- Guess the Year [PDF]
  New Entry: 'Future Predictions- Guess the Year' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Fri, 26 Apr 2013, 09:27 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 'Sun' is ____.
  New Entry: ''Sun' is ____.' has just been added to the Language Polls area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 23 Apr 2013, 08:10 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Pronunciation of -ough [PDF]
  New Entry: 'Pronunciation of -ough' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 23 Apr 2013, 07:17 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• IELTS Writing Part Two Analysis [PDF]
  New Entry: 'IELTS Writing Part Two Analysis' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Sun, 21 Apr 2013, 10:11 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Clean off
  New Entry: 'Clean off' has just been added to the Phrasal Verbs area of UsingEnglish.com.Fri, 19 Apr 2013, 08:59 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Gender Differences- Discussion [PDF]
  New Entry: 'Gender Differences- Discussion' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Fri, 19 Apr 2013, 08:30 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Lend & Borrow
  New Entry: 'Lend & Borrow' has just been added to the Quizzes & Handouts area of UsingEnglish.com.Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 07:38 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• She told them ____ do it.
  New Entry: 'She told them ____ do it.' has just been added to the Language Polls area of UsingEnglish.com.Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 10:24 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Precariat
  New Entry: 'Precariat' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 08:12 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• UK and US Political Vocabulary and Political Systems [PDF]
  New Entry: 'UK and US Political Vocabulary and Political Systems' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 09:09 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Unforch
  New Entry: 'Unforch' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Sat, 13 Apr 2013, 07:33 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• She's seriously ill and is in the ____ Care Unit.
  New Entry: 'She's seriously ill and is in the ____ Care Unit.' has just been added to the Language Polls area of UsingEnglish.com.Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 08:38 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 30 ways to get ahead in ELT publishing
  New Entry: '30 ways to get ahead in ELT publishing' has just been added to the Articles area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 10:00 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Gender-Specific Words [PDF]
  New Entry: 'Gender-Specific Words' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 09:15 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Postmodem depression
  New Entry: 'Postmodem depression' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 07:47 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Textual satisfaction
  New Entry: 'Textual satisfaction' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 07:46 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Textually challenged
  New Entry: 'Textually challenged' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 07:45 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Wrap rage
  New Entry: 'Wrap rage' has just been added to the Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 07:44 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Fight like Kilkenny cats
  New Entry: 'Fight like Kilkenny cats' has just been added to the Idioms area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 07:42 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Like collecting frogs in a bucket
  New Entry: 'Like collecting frogs in a bucket' has just been added to the Idioms area of UsingEnglish.com.Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 08:21 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Jump off
  New Entry: 'Jump off' has just been added to the Phrasal Verbs area of UsingEnglish.com.Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 08:19 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Jump off the page
  New Entry: 'Jump off the page' has just been added to the Idioms area of UsingEnglish.com.Sun, 7 Apr 2013, 10:37 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Email functions- Correcting & Brainstorming [PDF]
  New Entry: 'Email functions- Correcting & Brainstorming' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Thu, 4 Apr 2013, 07:51 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 70 easy TEFL articles that anyone could write at least one of
  New Entry: '70 easy TEFL articles that anyone could write at least one of' has just been added to the Articles area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 02:03 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• How to write and publish TEFL articles
  New Entry: 'How to write and publish TEFL articles' has just been added to the Articles area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 01:58 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ding dong
  New Entry: 'Ding dong' has just been added to the Cockney Rhyming Slang area of UsingEnglish.com. This entry is only available in our members' area.Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 06:27 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Longer Advice Phrases- Card Games [PDF]
  New Entry: 'Longer Advice Phrases- Card Games' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 06:24 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Leading edge
  New Entry: 'Leading edge' has just been added to the Idioms area of UsingEnglish.com.Tue, 2 Apr 2013, 06:18 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• It's not worth ____.
  New Entry: 'It's not worth ____.' has just been added to the Language Polls area of UsingEnglish.com.Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 08:38 PM // feeds.feedburner.com

Breaking News English

• Religious intolerance on the rise
  May 22, 2013. A report from the U.S. State Department has highlighted the rise of religious intolerance worldwide. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gave reporters a summary of the ''International Re…Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• China Vice Premier asks tourists to behave
  May 20, 2013. China's Vice-Premier Wang Yang has asked Chinese tourists to behave better when they go overseas. Mr Wang wants to make sure that all Chinese people give a good image of China when they…Sun, 19 May 2013, 05:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Sad music helps mend broken hearts
  May 18, 2013. New research suggests listening to sad music can help overcome the heartbreak of an ended relationship. The study contradicts common wisdom thatFri, 17 May 2013, 05:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• United Nations asks us to eat insects
  May 16, 2013. A new United Nations report says the we should all eat insects. The report is from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. It is called 'Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and…Wed, 15 May 2013, 05:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New coronavirus can spread among humans
  May 14, 2013. The World Health Organisation has warned that a new coronavirus strain could be passed from human to human.Mon, 13 May 2013, 05:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Carbon dioxide at record high level
  May 12, 2013. The level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is now at a record high. An American weather station in Hawaii recorded the new high on the 9th of May.Sat, 11 May 2013, 05:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Sir Alex Ferguson retires as Manchester United coach
  May 10th, 2013. The most successful football coach Britain has ever seen announced his retirement on Wednesday when Sir Alex Ferguson called an end to his 26 years in charge of Manchester United.Thu, 9 May 2013, 05:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Quarter of Brits walk an hour a week
  May 8th, 2013. Research has found that 25 per cent of British people walk for less than one hour each week. That's just nine minutes a day. Another 43 per cent walked for less than two hours per week.Tue, 7 May 2013, 05:30 PM // feeds.feedburner.com
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BU

• Jobs: Comp Ling; Morphology; Typology: Post Doc, Empirical Foundations of Linguistics Project
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2160.html&submissionid=12534640&topicid=7&msgnumber=1 University or Organization: Empirical Foundat…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:37 AM // bu.edu
  
• Confs: Applied Linguistics/UK
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2159.html&submissionid=12873932&topicid=4&msgnumber=1 How Does Language Work? Short Title: HDLW Dat…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:35 AM // bu.edu
  
• Confs: General Linguistics/France
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2158.html&submissionid=12806081&topicid=4&msgnumber=1 16th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs: Models and…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:33 AM // bu.edu
  
• Confs: Computational Linguistics/USA
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2157.html&submissionid=12873937&topicid=4&msgnumber=1 V&L Net Workshop on Language for Vision Date:…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:09 AM // bu.edu
  
• Confs: Semantics, Philosophy of Language/Spain
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2156.html&submissionid=12738226&topicid=4&msgnumber=1 Logicality, Lexical Meaning and Semantic Inva…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:08 AM // bu.edu
  
• Confs: Ling Theories, Syntax, Morphology, Discipline of Ling/Germany
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2154.html&submissionid=12873931&topicid=4&msgnumber=1 Workshop on Progress in Linguistics Short Tit…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:07 AM // bu.edu
  
• Confs: Ling Theories, General Ling, Computational Ling/Germany
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2153.html&submissionid=12873938&topicid=4&msgnumber=1 20th International Conference on Head-Driven…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:06 AM // bu.edu
  
• Jobs: Phonetics; Psycholing: Post Doc, Haskins Laboratories
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2150.html&submissionid=12738183&topicid=7&msgnumber=1 University or Organization: Haskins Laborator…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:04 AM // bu.edu
  
• Jobs: Socioling; Typology; Language Contact; Interactional Ling: Post Doc, University of Zurich
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2148.html&submissionid=12806080&topicid=7&msgnumber=1 University or Organization: University of Zur…Wed, 22 May 2013, 09:03 AM // bu.edu
  
• Review: Historical Linguistics; Syntax: Patten (2012)
  E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-2146.html&submissionid=9433459&topicid=9&msgnumber=1 Discuss this message: http://linguistlist.org/…Wed, 22 May 2013, 08:59 AM // bu.edu
  

Cambridge

• Latest news from the Faculty and the Department of French
  With great regret the Department of French has to report the recent death of Professor Philip Ford, at the age of 64, after a short illness.Fri, 10 May 2013, 02:48 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  Read all about it! Wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century Cambridge University Library is happy to announce the opening of the exhibition Read all about it! Wrongdoing in Spain…Wed, 1 May 2013, 01:30 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Slavonic Studies
  Congratulations to our top team of young translators! The Department of Slavonic Studies would like to formally congratulate a team of our wonderful undergraduate students who recently entered a prest…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 02:21 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of German and Dutch
  Excellent progress made at the first AHRC-funded Kaiserchronik transcription workshop for graduate students.Fri, 22 Mar 2013, 04:08 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Italian
  European Research Council Synergy funding for Cambridge Renaissance team Dr Abigail Brundin (Department of Italian) and two colleagues secure funding for major new projectTue, 15 Jan 2013, 07:05 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
  The Faculty welcomes applications for the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Scheme Please contact your prospective Head of Department by 20 December 2012 if you are interested in applying. Please not…Thu, 6 Dec 2012, 08:57 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of Slavonic Studies
  Free Open Air Film Screening at the University Library Friday 21 September 2012 From 8pmThu, 6 Sep 2012, 07:09 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the University Library's Data Management Team
  The University Library has updated its Support for Managing Research Data website. Please visit the link to see the updated details.Thu, 12 Jul 2012, 04:30 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• Latest news from the Department of German and Dutch
  Mark Chinca and Christopher Young have been awarded funding of c. £950K by the AHRC to produce the first ever full edition of the twelfth-century Kaiserchronik.Wed, 13 Jun 2012, 03:39 AM // edparkerjr.mml.cam.ac.uk
• 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

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• Latest news from the Department of Italian
  ASMI postgraduate essay prize winnerThu, 5 Jan 2012, 07:54 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
• 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

• Rajesh Bhatt Installed as First Linguistics Guru
  Rajesh Bhatt from UMass will be visiting the department from May 12 to May 21 as our first linguistics guru. He will be hanging out in Anastasia’s office (Classics 314E). Please stop by to say hi! If…Thu, 16 May 2013, 02:18 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Cisneros and Singerman awarded the Tinker Field Research Grant
  Carlos Cisneros and Adam Singerman have both been awarded the Center for Latin American Studies 2013 Tinker Field Research Grant. Carlos will be heading to Panama to conduct fieldwork on the Bocotá (C…Thu, 9 May 2013, 07:13 AM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Bochnak received Mellon Postdoc at Berkeley
  Ryan Bochnak has been offered a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley!  Congratulations, Ryan!Wed, 8 May 2013, 11:14 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Photos from the Workshop on Sound Change Actuation
  The Workshop on Sound Change Actuation was a great success. In case you miss the action, here are some photos from the workshop: Album 1 and Album 2.Wed, 8 May 2013, 11:10 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Francez and Bochnak at SALT 23
  Both Itamar Francez and Ryan Bochnak will be presenting at SALT 23 on May 3-5. The titles of their presentations are Ashwini Deo, Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden: From change to value differ…Fri, 3 May 2013, 08:07 AM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Workshop on Sound Change Actuation
  The Workshop on Sound Change Actuation, a satellite meeting of CLS, will take place next Wednesday and Thursday (April 17-18). The Wednesday workshop will take place in the South Lounge of the Reynold…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Cisneros awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  Congratulations to Carlos Cisneros, who has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! His project is titled “Mixtec Wh-words as NPIs and FCIs”. Great job, Carlos!Sun, 31 Mar 2013, 11:45 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu
• Yoon joins UT Arlington!
  Congratulations to Suwon Yoon (PhD, 2011), who will join the Department of Linguistics & TESOL at UT Arlington this coming Fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Suwon!Tue, 26 Mar 2013, 03:38 PM // lucian.uchicago.edu

Columbia

• “So-called Spanglish”
  “So-called Spanglish” Thursday November 29th, 2012 6:00pm – 8:00pm Ricardo Otheguy, Ph.D. Professor of Linguistics City University of NY, Graduate Center Nancy Stern, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Cha…Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 07:22 AM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• “Boundary Conflict and Civil Sphere: How Institutional Crises are Constructed as Social Endangerments”
  “Boundary Conflict and Civil Sphere: How Institutional Crises are Constructed as Social Endangerments” Monday November 26th, 2012 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.Jeffrey Alexander, PhD Lillian Chavenson Saden Profess…Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 07:19 AM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• Potluck!
  Monday, November 19th, CLS is hosting a potluck at 8PM in East Campus 820! Bring your favorite food from the country of your favorite language (or just something you like to eat!) and come hear about…Sun, 11 Nov 2012, 04:33 PM // columbialinguistics.wordpress.com
• 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

Edinburgh

• Seminar: Ani Nenkova
  Multimodal Affect Prediction using Audio, Lexical and Video IndicatorsTue, 21 May 2013, 01:29 AM // ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk

Manchester

• John Payne at the LSA Summer Institute
  This year’s LSA Summer Institute features a workshop on Patterns of Alignment in the Indo-Iranian Languages, at which our own John Payne is a keynote speaker. He’ll be presenting on alignment and co-o…Tue, 21 May 2013, 08:29 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• New Books in Language
  Lecturer George Walkden has interviewed two more linguists about their new books for the New Books in Language podcast. In the interview with Jonathan Bobaljik, the discussion is about the morphology…Mon, 20 May 2013, 12:51 PM // manling.wordpress.com
• LEL at the Union Awards
  At the Union Awards 2013 this Friday, LEL were well represented. Undergrad Millie Loxton won the award for Project Leader of the Year, in recognition of her charity work. Congratulations to her! Also…Sun, 5 May 2013, 05:27 PM // manling.wordpress.com
• Hansen elected to Royal Danish Academy
  LEL Professor Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is this week celebrating her election to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Founded in 1742, the Academy is a highly select and prestigious orga…Sat, 4 May 2013, 05:08 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Peer Mentoring Scheme of the Year!
  At yesterday’s Students as Partners evening, the LEL Peer Mentoring Scheme was named Scheme of the Year! Manchet previously brought you news of the mentors’ successes, so the award shouldn’t come as a…Fri, 3 May 2013, 03:24 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Punch & Judy politics?
  Manchester linguist James Murphy has had his research featured in the Telegraph and on Radio Manchester! Murphy’s research, based on quantitative analysis of sessions of Prime Minister’s Questions, re…Thu, 2 May 2013, 06:50 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Gilbert takes the trophy
  Manchester’s Richard Gilbert, linguistics undergraduate and captain of our University Challenge team, received the University Challenge champions’ trophy from Lord Rees on TV this Monday – after a stu…Wed, 1 May 2013, 05:51 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Award nomination for LinguistMix
  LinguistMix has been nominated for Best Student-Led Event at the 2013 Union Awards! The nominations are impressively diverse, ranging from a pantomime to an HIV awareness event. Whether or not Linguis…Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 03:33 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Solid citizens or slippery customers?
  On Friday 10th May at 4.15pm, David Denison will be giving a lecture at the British Academy, hosted jointly by the Philological Society. With the title Parts of speech: solid citizens or slippery cust…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 08:12 AM // manling.wordpress.com
• Posh & Becks media madness
  First announced in Manchester Evening News, as previously reported here, the story of Posh & Becks’ ascent up the social ladder has captured the hearts and minds of media folks across the world. The t…Sat, 27 Apr 2013, 06:14 AM // manling.wordpress.com

Michigan

• Welcome to Elliott Levinson-Brennan!
  Jon and Lisa welcome their baby boy!Sat, 4 May 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Undergrad alum to be Bloch Fellow at Linguistic Institute
  Troy Messick receives prestigious Bloch FellowshipSat, 4 May 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Several international presentations by John Swales
  Swales in the UK and TaiwanSat, 4 May 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• What comes after UM?
  Where (some of) our graduating seniors are off toSat, 4 May 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Michigan Linguistics at "Workshop on Sound Change Actuation"
  Satellite meeting of the 49th Chicago Linguistic SocietySat, 4 May 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Annual board meeting of "Language Learning"
  Board meeting ofLanguage Learning held in Ann Arbor early in AprilSat, 20 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Diane Larsen-Freeman at Carnegie Mellon University
  The Goal of Modern Language InstructionSat, 20 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Two international presentations by Marlyse Baptista
  19th Hispanistentag and University of AmsterdamSat, 20 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Journal Club looks backward and forward
  Reflecting on one year of successful meetings of the Journal ClubSat, 13 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Mike Opper at Illinois Language and Linguistics Society meeting
  Word Length Flexibility in Nuosu YiSat, 13 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu

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• Capstone Poster Session: Documenting Mandinka
  Come learn what students did in the capstone senior seminarSat, 13 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Will Nediger receives Rackham Centennial Fellowship
  Supporting research on Binding Condition CSat, 13 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Ezra Keshet at 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium
  Sloppy Identity with no BindingSat, 13 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• A successful MidPhon at UM
  Mid-continental phoneticians and phonologists converged on Ann ArborSat, 6 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu
• Documentary on alum Mark Sicoli's work on the whistled language of Oaxaca
  Whistles in the Mist: Whistled Speech in OaxacaSat, 6 Apr 2013, 09:00 PM // lsa.umich.edu

MIT

• Phonology Circle 5/20 - Michelle Fullwood
  Speaker: Michelle Fullwood Title: The perceptual dimensions of sonority-driven epenthesis Time/Date: Monday, May 20, 2pm (Note special time) Location: 32-D831 Vowel epenthesis often appears to prefere…Mon, 20 May 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT linguists in Manchester
  MIT will be well represented at the 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting this week (May 23-25), with a number of current students and faculty, as well as recent alums, presenting talks and posters. Miche…Mon, 20 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• New paper by Gibson and colleagues
  A new paper by Ted Gibson with Leon Bergen and Steve Piantadosi called “Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation” has appeared in PNAS.  If the…Mon, 20 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• “Introduction to Linguistics” for high-school students
  During the spring semester, a group of MIT grad students in linguistics created and taught an “Introduction to Linguistics” class for high school students. The class was offered through HSSP, a progra…Mon, 20 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Steriade in Oxford
  Donca Steriade will give a talk at Oxford University on Monday, May 20 (today), at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, entitled “Vowel-to-Vowel Intervals as Rhythmic Units: Evidence F…Mon, 20 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• See you in September!
  With this issue, Whamit! goes on its annual summer semi-hiatus —  ”semi” because we may put out an issue or two if our pile of exciting news items gets big enough to justify it.  Otherwise, see you in…Mon, 20 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 5/14 - Suyeon Yun
  Speaker: Suyeon Yun Title: Two Types of Right Dislocation in Korean Date/Time: Tuesday, May 14, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 This paper proposes that right dislocation of an argument to the post-verbal pos…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 5/16 - Aniruddh D. Patel
  Speaker: Aniruddh D. Patel (Dept of Psychology, Tufts) Title: Speech-music rhythmic relations: empirical studies Date/Time: Thursday, May 16, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 Rhythm is widely acknowledge…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 5/16 - Benjamin Storme
  What: Even more Turkshop results Who: Benjamin Storme When: Thursday, May 16, 5:30 Where: 32-D831 The final lab meeting of the year will be dedicated to results of projects created by Turkshop partici…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Yasutada Sudo to University College London
  We are delighted to announce that our very own Yasutada Sudo, who received his PhD from this department last summer (dissertation: On the Semantics of Phi Features on Pronouns), has accepted a positio…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

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• Hackl on the Syntax-Semantics Interface in Lingua
  An article by Martin Hackl on the Syntax-Semantics Interface has appeared in a special June issue of the journal Lingua.  The purpose of the special issue, as summarized by its editor, Luigi Rizzi, is…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT’s Austronesianists go to AFLA
  Next weekend, three talks from MIT will be presented at the 20th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association at the Arlington campus of the University of Texas. At this year’s AFLA,  No…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• 2013 Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching for Isaac Gould!!
  Third-year grad student Isaac Gould has been chosen to receive the 2013 James A.and Ruth Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching, given by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Isaac…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Colloquium 5/17 - Emmanuel Chemla
  The final linguistics colloquium of the semester takes place this Friday. Speaker: Emmanuel Chemla (LSCP-CNRS Paris) Date/Time: May 17 (Friday), 3:30-5pm Venue: 32-141 Title: Polarity items are accept…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Pesetsky@FASL 22
  The weekend before last, David Pesetsky journeyed to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he was a keynote speaker at the 22nd annual conference on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT linguists at SALT 2013
  The 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference was held at UC Santa Cruz on May 3-5, 2013. Current students and alumni friends at the conference included: Igor Yanovich, Variable-force modals on…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Thank you, Maziar!
  Last Wednesday, the department said our enthusiastic but tearful good-bye to Maziar Toosarvandani, who has been an active, much appreciated member of the department for the past two years as an Americ…Mon, 13 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 5/7 - Neil Myler
  Speaker: Neil Myler (NYU) Title: Building and interpreting possession sentences in Cochabamba Quecha Date/Time: Tuesday, May 7, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 The full abstract is available here (pdf). This…Mon, 6 May 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 5/9 - Neil Myler
  Speaker: Neil Myler (NYU) Title: Building and interpreting HAVE sentences in (mostly) English Date/Time: Thursday, May 9, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 The full abstract is available here (pdf). The l…Mon, 6 May 2013, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL 5/9
  What: Even more Turkshop results When: Thursday, May 9, 5:30 Where: 32-D831 Who: Despina Oikonomou, Ruth Brillman, Wataru Uegaki, Paul Marty This week’s lab meeting will be dedicated to results of pro…Mon, 6 May 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Colloquium 5/10 - Andrew Nevins
  Speaker: Andrew Nevins (University College London) Date/Time: Friday May 10th, 3:30-5pm Venue: 32-141 Title: Agree-Link, Derivational Sandwiching, and Agree-Copy Abstract: Recent work on agreement wit…Mon, 6 May 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 4/30 - Isa Bayirli
  Speaker: Isa Bayirli Title: On an Impossible Affix Date/Time: Tuesday, Apr 30, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 This talk presents a new argument to substantiate the view that the morphological identity of a g…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Catalyst Conversation - 5/1 - Kai von Fintel
  Who: Matthew Brand, Randal Thurston, Kai von Fintel What: “The Language of Forms” Where: Monadnock Room, Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center When: May 1, 6–7pm, Reception to follow This Wednesday even…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No Ling-Lunch This Week
  Ling-Lunch will not meet this week. There will be a session next week with a talk by Neil Myler (NYU).Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT News article on Wexler’s work on autism and grammar
  Ken Wexler’s recently-published work on grammar and autism was featured by the MIT news office.Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL meeting 5/2
  Title: More Turkshop results Date/Time: Thursday, May 2, 5:30 Location: 32-D831 (Note room!) This week’s lab meeting will be dedicated to results of projects created by Turkshop participants. Stay tun…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 4/22 - Sam Zukoff
  Speaker: Sam Zukoff Title: The Phonology of Verbal Reduplication in Ancient Greek Date/Time: Monday, Apr 22, 5pm Location: 32-D831 In this talk I put forward an analysis of reduplication in Ancient Gr…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 4/23 - Gary Thoms
  Speaker: Gary Thoms Title: Remnant movement and discontinuous deletion Date/Time: Tuesday, Apr 23, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 In this paper I propose that chains are subject to a constraint that bans disc…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 4/24 - Ciro Greco and 4/26 - Edwin Howard
  LFRG will meet twice this week. Speaker: Ciro Greco (University of Milan-Bicocca) Date/Time: Wed 24 April, 11:30 am (note special time!) Location: 32-D831 (note special location!) Title: “Are subject…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 4/25 - Ayesha Kidwai
  Speaker: Ayesha Kidwai (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Title: EX-It: On the syntax of finite clause extraposition and pronominal correlates in Hindi and Bangla Date/Time: Thursday, Apr 25, 12:30-1:45p L…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No ESSL meeting this week
  The Experimental Syntax and Semantics lab will not meet on 4/25.Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Colloquium 4/26 - Mark Baker
  Speaker: Mark C. Baker (Rutgers) Date/Time: Friday 26 April, 3:30-5pm Venue: 32-141 Title: On Dependent Ergative Case (in Shipibo) and Its Derivation by Phase Abstract: Focusing on new data from the S…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 4/18 - Bronwyn M. Bjorkman
  Speaker: Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (University of Toronto) Title: Possession and necessity: from individuals to worlds Date/Time: Thursday, Apr 18, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 (Joint work with Elizabeth C…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Colloquium 4/19 - Arsalan Kahnemuyipour - RESCHEDULED
  As announced earlier Friday, this colloquium talk will be held Saturday (4/20), 12:00pm, in room 32-D461. Speaker: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (University of Toronto Mississauga) Date/Time: 19 April (Fri),…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 4/24 - Ciro Greco
  Speaker: Ciro Greco (University of Milan-Bicocca) Date/Time: Wed 24th April 11:30 (note special time!) Location: 32-D831 (note special location!) Title: Are subject islands just subject islands? Exper…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Steriade at Berkeley
  Donca Steriade is at UC Berkeley this week, giving a trio of lectures on Greek, Latin, and Romance phonology. The first, given in their departmental colloquium series, is entitled “The role of free ba…Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 4/8 - Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
  Speaker: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester) Title: Lexical storage and the cyclic reapplication of phonological processes Date/Time: Monday, Apr 8, 5-6:30p Location: 32-D831 This talk s…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 4/9 - Coppe van Urk on Bruening
  Speaker: Coppe van Urk Date/Time: Tuesday, Apr 9, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 This week’s session of Syntax Square will be a discussion of Benjamin Bruening’s manuscript No such thing as defective interve…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 4/11 - Storme and Brohan & Kolachina
  This week’s Ling-Lunch will feature two shorter talks. Date/Time: Thursday, Apr 11, 12:30-1:45pm Location: 32-D461 Speaker: Benjamin Storme Title: Hittite present tense and its interaction with aspect…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL 4/11 - Turkshop IV
  What: Turk workshop, part 4 When: Thursday, April 11, 5:30-7 Where: 32-D461 This week will be the fourth part of the Turkshop. Our goal for this session is to discuss some basics of data visualization…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 4/12 - Wataru Uegaki
  Title: Question-answer congruence and (non-)exhaustivity Speaker: Wataru Uegaki Date/time: Fri April 12, 11:30am Location: 32-D461 Abstract: It has been observed that the exhaustive inference of quest…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Young Ah Do to Georgetown
  We are very pleased to announce that fifth-year student Young Ah Do has accepted a position at Georgetown University as Visiting Assistant Professor in Phonology for the coming academic year. Congratu…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Pesetsky delivers Pinkel Lecture at UPenn
  On Friday, David Pesetsky delivered the 15th annual Pinkel Lecture at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at UPenn. He presented joint work with Jonah Katz on Language and music: same stru…Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 4/2 - Ted Levin
  Speaker: Ted Levin Title: Successive-Cyclic Case Assignment: Case Alternation and Stacking in Korean Date/Time: Tuesday, Apr 2, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 In general, Case theory excludes the option of a…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 4/3 - RUMMIT Practice Talks
  RUMMIT, the Rutgers-UMass-MIT phonology meeting, will be held at UMass Amherst on Saturday, Apr 6. The program is available here (pdf). This week’s Phonology Circle will feature two practice talks for…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 4/4 - Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
  Speaker: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester) Title: Lexical storage and cyclic locality in phonologically driven allomorph selection Date/Time: Thursday, Apr 4, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Turkshop office hours 4/4
  Because of the Smolensky talk this Thursday, we will not have a lab meeting this week. Instead, mitcho and Hadas will be in the 8th floor lounge between 4-6pm to help Turkshop participants solve any p…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Whamit Acquisition Shocker 4/1: No Poverty in This Stimulus
  It has now been officially confirmed that Whamit!, the independent voice of MIT Linguistics for more than five years, has been acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp for almost $3.4 million dollars.  T…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 4/5 - Paolo Santorio
  Please join us at LFRG this week for a talk by a recent MIT PhD in philosophy: Title: Exhaustified Counterfactuals Speaker: Paolo Santorio (University of Leeds) Date/time: Fri April 5, 11:30am Locatio…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Toosarvandani to Santa Cruz
  Maziar Toosarvandani, who has been an exciting presence in our department for the past two years as an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow, is concluding his fellowship this Sprin…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Isa Bayirli in Germany
  Over the spring break, first-year graduate student Isa Kerem Bayirli was in Germany for two events: he gave a talk entitled “On Suffixhood” at the University of Potsdam, and he later gave the talk at…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT Linguistics in the Öld World
  This week are several MIT Linguists in Sweden, for the 36th annual meeting of Generative Linguistics in the Old World.  Presentations and posters by current MIT linguists and recent alums at the GLOW…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 3/18 - Sam Steddy
  Speaker: Sam Steddy Title: Palatalisation and the Role of Morphological Bases Across the Italian Lexicon Date/Time: Monday, Mar 18, 5pm Location: 32-D831 I propose that a palatalisation rule in Italia…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 3/18
  What: ESSL Turkshop project presentations When: Monday 18 March, 6:00 - 7:00 pm Where: 32-D831 Please note the special meeting place and date/time! Aron Hirsch, Lilla Magyar and Mia Nussbaum will pres…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 3/19 - Yusuke Imanishi
  Speaker: Yusuke Imanishi Title: When ergative is default: Ergativity in Kaqchikel and Q’anjob’al (and Mayan) Date/Time: Tuesday, Mar 19, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 In this preliminary talk, I will explore…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Special talk 3/20 - Noah Constant
  Speaker: Noah Constant (UMass Amherst) Title: “Deriving the Diversity of Contrastive Topic Realizations” Day/Time: Wednesday, March 20, 3:30-5:00pm Location: 32-D461 Information structural notions lik…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 3/21 - Martin Rohrmeier
  Speaker: Martin Rohrmeier (MIT, Intelligence initiative Fellow) Title: Introduction to musical syntax Date/Time: Thursday, Mar 21, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 In recent years, the cognitive link bet…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Shigeru Miyagawa paper summarized in Science
  A summary of Miyagawa, Berwick, and Okanoya’s Frontiers in Psychology article, “The emergence of hierarchical structure in human language,” appeared in Science (March 8, 1132-1133). The brief piece wa…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Rebecca Reed named Burchard Scholar
  Undergraduate linguistics major Rebecca Reed (‘14) has been selected as one of 32 students to MIT’s Burchard Scholars program for 2013.  Quoting the official announcement: “the award recognizes sophom…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG update
  There will be no LFRG this week or next since people will be out of town for spring break. However, we’d like to draw your attention to our schedule for next month. April 5: Paolo Santorio (University…Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 3/11 - Juliet Stanton
  Speaker: Juliet Stanton Title: Positional restrictions on prenasalized stops: a perceptual account Date/Time: Monday, Mar 11, 5pm Location: 32-D831 Previous studies on prenasalized stops have focused…Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 02:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 3/12 - Coppe van Urk
  Coppe van Urk will be reporting on a paper from ACAL 44. Title: On Object Marking in Kikuria Original Presenters: Rodrigo Ranero, Michael Diercks, and Rebekah Cramerus (Pomona College) Date/Time: Tues…Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 02:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 3/14 - Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Hadas Kotek
  Speakers: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Hadas Kotek Title: Blocking in English causatives Date/Time: Thursday, Mar 14, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 There is much work on the two causative constructi…Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 02:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LSA Institute Fellowships for Brillman, Stanton
  First-year students Ruth Brillman and Juliet Stanton have been awarded Linguistic Society of America Fellowships to attend the 2013 LSA Summer Institute, hosted by the University of Michigan.  Congrat…Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT at African Linguistics Conference
  Norvin Richards and 3rd-year student Coppe van Urk were in our nation’s sequestered capital this weekend to present a joint paper on “Dinka and the Syntax of Successive-Cyclic Movement” at the Annual…Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 3/14 - Turkshop part 3
  What: Turk workshop, part 3 When: Thursday, March 14, 5:30-7 Where: 32-D461 This week will be the third part of the Turkshop. Our goal for this session is to cover the technical details of everything…Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Richards paper on Lardil case-stacking published
  Norvin Richards’ paper “Lardil ‘Case Stacking’ and the Timing of Case Assignment” has appeared in the latest issue of Syntax.  Highly recommended to everyone interested in case or the grammar of Lardi…Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 3/5 - Amanda Swenson and Paul Marty
  Speaker: Amanda Swenson and Paul Marty Title: Local Agreement without local binding: What the syntax and prosody of Malayalam taan teach us Date/Time: Tuesday, March 5, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 Jayaseel…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 01:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 3/7 - Igor Yanovich
  Speaker: Igor Yanovich Title: Variable-force modality on the British Isles Date/Time: Thursday, Mar 7, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 Recent semantic fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest uncovered modals…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 01:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 3/7 - Turkshop part 2
  What: Turk workshop, part 2 When: Thursday, March 7, 5:30-7 Where: 32-D461 (note the unusual location!) This week will be the second part of the Turkshop. mitcho will teach a tutorial on regular expre…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 01:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Linguistics Colloquium 3/8 - Lisa Matthewson
  Speaker: Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) Date/Time: Friday 8 March, 3:30 - 5pm Venue: 32-141 Title: Current relevance meets inchoativity: On what makes a perfect aspect Abstract: Here…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Call for abstracts - Conference on Metrical Structure: Text-Setting and Stress (m@90)
  On September 20-21, 2013, MIT Linguistics will host a Conference on Metrical Structure: Text-setting and Stress. The conference marks a number of new developments in these fields as well as a number o…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• NSF dissertation grant for Hadas Kotek
  Fourth-year graduate student Hadas Kotek has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant by the National Science Foundation that will allow her to conduct linguistic experimental work on th…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 2/25 - Suyeon Yun
  Speaker: Suyeon Yun Title: To Metathesize or Not to Metathesize: Phonological and Morphological Constraints on Tunisian Arabic Nouns Date/Time: Monday, Feb 25, 5pm Location: 32-D831 In Tunisian Arabic…Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 01:05 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No Syntax Square This Week
  Syntax Square will not meet this week. The following time slots are still available for the semester: 3/12, 3/19, 4/2, 4/9, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14. Please contact Ruth or T.C. if you’d like to give a talk.Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 01:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 2/28 - Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
  Speaker: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine Title: Ergativity without ergative Case Date/Time: Thursday, Feb 28, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 Mayan languages exhibit an ergative-absolutive pattern in their v…Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 01:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Miyagawa, Berwick and Okanoya paper in Frontiers of Psychology
  A paper by Shigeru Miyagawa, Bob Berwick and Kazuo Okanoya on the evolution of syntax has just appeared in the journal Frontiers of Psychology. The paper, entitled “The emergence of hierarchical struc…Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting, 2/28 - Turk Workshop
  What: Turk workshop, part 1 When: Thursday, Feb 28, 5:30-7 Where: 32-D461 (note the unusual location!) This week will be the first part of the Turk workshop. We have three goals for this week’s meetin…Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No Syntax Square This Week
  Syntax Square will not meet this week because we are on a Monday schedule on Tuesday. There are still quite a few slots available for the semester: 2/26, 3/12, 3/19, 4/2, 4/9, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14. Please…Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 01:03 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch 2/21 - Abhijit Debnath
  Speaker: Abhijit Debnath (Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad) Title: Search for a Minimal Agent Predicate Link preference in Recursive Agent Distribution Strategy for Em…Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 01:02 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL Meeting 2/21 - David Gow
  Speaker: David Gow Date/Time: Thursday, Feb 21, 5:30pm Location: 32-D831 Title: Imaging interaction: Using Granger causality analysis of MRI-constrained MEG/EEG to understand the dynamic processes tha…Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 01:01 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT Linguistics hikes in the White Mountains
  To celebrate Presidents Day and the joy of being a linguist, a group from Martin Hackl’s Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab went on a snow-shoeing hike in the White Mountains.  As of press time, th…Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 2/22 - Ayaka Sugawara
  Speaker: Ayaka Sugawara, presenting work in collaboration with Martin Hackl, Su Lin Blodgett (Wellesley college), and Ken Wexler. Date/Time: Fri Feb 22, 11:30am Location: 32-D461 Title: Scalar Presupp…Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT at AAAS 2013
  Last weekend, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science took place in Boston, including several talks and panels devoted to linguistics, with MIT faculty and alumni…Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle Organizational Meeting - 2/11
  Phonology Circle is scheduled for Mondays 5-7p this semester. There is a brief organizational meeting today at 5pm. If you cannot attend but would like to make a presentation this term, contact Michae…Mon, 11 Feb 2013, 02:08 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 2/12 - Junya Nomura
  Speaker: Junya Nomura Title: Syntax of Associative Plurals and Licensing of Empty Nouns Date/time: Tuesday, Feb 12th, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 It’s been claimed by many researchers (Rizzi (1986), Lobeck…Mon, 11 Feb 2013, 01:04 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Paper by Coppe van Urk in Linguistic Inquiry
  A new paper, “Visser’s Generalization: The Syntax of Control and the Passive” by 3rd-year student Coppe van Urk has just appeared in Linguistic Inquiry.  Congratulations, Coppe!!Mon, 11 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• ESSL organizational meeting 2/14
  This semester the experimental syntax-semantics lab meetings will take place on Thursdays, 5:30-7pm in 32-D831. An organizational meeting will take place this Thursday, 2/14. A tentative schedule for…Mon, 11 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Visiting Members for Spring 2013
  Following up on their introductions at the Departmental Lunch last week, Whamit! extends our warmest welcome to the new visiting members of the department for this semester. Visiting Scholars Heribert…Mon, 11 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Course Announcements, Spring 2013
  24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory Instructors: Kai von Fintel and Irene Heim Wednesday and Friday 10-11:30a, 32-D461 http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/24/sp13/24.954/ This intermediate level class…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 02:27 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Welcome to the Spring 2013 Term!
  Whamit! welcomes all the members of the MIT Linguistics community to the spring semester. The editorial staff is comprised of Adam Albright, Kai von Fintel, Michelle Fullwood, Ryo Masuda, and David Pe…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 02:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT Linguistics Colloquium Schedule, Spring 2013
  The updated schedule for this term’s MIT Linguistics Colloquium is posted below. All talks are on Fridays, 3:30-5:00 p.m. in room 32-141 unless otherwise noted. For further information, please contact…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 01:49 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Phonology Circle 2/4 - Suyeon Yun
  There will be a special meeting of the Phonology Circle on 2/4, featuring a WCCFL practice talk by Suyeon Yun. (Please note the time!) Title: The Role of Acoustic Cues in Nonnative Consonant Cluster R…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 01:45 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Syntax Square 2/4 - Ted Levin and 2/5 - Hrayr Khanjian
  Syntax Square is scheduled for Tuesdays at 1-2pm this semester. The organizers are Ruth Brillman and Tingchun Chen — please contact them for scheduling issues, if you have ongoing or completed syntact…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 01:44 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• LFRG 2/6 - Mitcho Erlewine and Isaac Gould
  The first LFRG meeting is a practice talk for WCCFL by Mitcho and Isaac this Wednesday. Future meetings are tentatively planned for Fridays at 11:30. Please contact this semester’s organizers, Edwin H…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 01:31 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• MIT linguists at the LSA, WCCFL
  MIT was particularly well represented at the Annual Meeting of the LSA from Jan 3-6 in Boston, with 26 presentations (plenary, invited talks, regular talks, and posters) by current MIT affiliates, and…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• David Pesetsky inducted as 2013 LSA fellow
  At the LSA Annual Meeting in January, David Pesetsky was officially inducted as a 2013 Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, for “distinguished contributions to the discipline”. David joins an…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 01:00 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• Ling-Lunch to be held on Thursdays
  Ling-Lunch will keep its usual schedule of Thursdays 12:30-1:45p in 32-D461. Please contact the term’s organizers, Isa Kerem Bayirli and Despina Oikonomou, if you would like to present a talk.Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 12:35 AM // feeds.feedburner.com
• No ESSL Meeting This Week
  There will be no meeting of the Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab this week; the first meeting will be next week, day and time TBA. If you are interested in participating in the lab meetings or in…Mon, 4 Feb 2013, 12:23 AM // feeds.feedburner.com

NYU

• John Singler's Fulbright Specialist grant for project in Liberia
  John Singler has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant for a project entitled “Linguistics, the English of Liberia, and the teaching of English in Liberia.” He will begin a six-week series of lect…Thu, 16 May 2013, 08:57 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Chris Collins and John Singler organize African Linguistics School
  The African Linguistics School (ALS), a two-week institute that focuses on the study of African languages and linguistic theory, will take place July 14-27 in Ibadan, Nigeria. Organized by Chris Colli…Thu, 16 May 2013, 08:52 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Jeremy Kuhn's NSF GROW Fellowship
  Jeremy Kuhn was awarded the NSF GROW Fellowship to support a stay in Paris at the Institut Jean Nicod for periods in 2013 and in 2014. Jeremy's project is entitled Anaphora in Sign Language....Sat, 11 May 2013, 07:54 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Philippe Schlenker (alternately) on primate linguistics and on sign languages
  Philippe Schlenker is giving a series of invited talks this year. Role Shift, Context Shift and Formal Iconicity at the workshop Linguistic Foundations of Narration on Spoken and Sign Languages, annua…Thu, 9 May 2013, 07:27 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Nicole Holliday and Nathan LaFave going to the LSA Institute
  Nicole Holliday and Nathan LaFave were both awarded LSA fellowships to study at the 2013 Linguistic Institute in Ann Arbor this summer....Tue, 7 May 2013, 08:10 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Stephanie Harves receives teaching award
  Three cheers to Stephanie Harves, who has been awarded one of the Golden Dozen teaching awards by the College of Arts and Science. Stephanie is not only an excellent classroom teacher, but also an ins…Tue, 7 May 2013, 01:24 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Syntax/Semantics brown bag: Friederike Moltmann
  The final talk in the NYU Linguistics Syntax/Semantics Brown Bag series this semester will be given by Friederike Moltmann (Paris/NYU). The talk will take place this Friday, May 10, at 1pm in Room 103…Mon, 6 May 2013, 03:54 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Neil Myler to speak at Ling-Lunch
  Neil Myler is going to talk about Building and interpreting HAVE sentences in (mostly) English at MIT's Ling-Lunch on May 9. See the announcement and the abstract here....Mon, 6 May 2013, 06:39 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Maria Gouskova's review of the Phonology Companion
  Maria Gouskova has published a review of the five-volume Blackwell Companion to Phonology in Phonology 30.1, see a pre-publication version here. Such thorough and thoughtful assessments of handbooks a…Sun, 5 May 2013, 07:10 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Lisa Davidson to speak at UConn
  Lisa Davidson will be giving a talk on Hiatus resolution in American English: the case against glide insertion at the University of Connecticut on May 3, 2013....Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 09:43 AM // blogs.nyu.edu

More

• Alec Marantz's article in Language and Cognitive Processes
  Alec Marantz's article entitled No escape from morphemes in morphological processing has just appeared in Language and Cognitive Processes....Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 09:36 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Syntax/Semantics brown bag: Steven Foley
  The NYU Syntax/Semantics Brown Bag series continues this week with a talk by Steven Foley (NYU). The talk will begin this Friday, May 3, in room 103 of the linguistics building at 10 Washington Place.…Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 07:38 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Alec Marantz and Liina Pylkkänen to speak at Linguistic Atoms in QMUL
  Alec Marantz and Liina Pylkkänen will be visiting the Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London as Distinguished Visiting Scholars from May 16-24. They will give the two talks in t…Fri, 26 Apr 2013, 08:10 AM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Maria Gouskova and Stephanie Harves at FASL 22
  Two NYU linguists will be presenting at the 22nd Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics Conference at McMaster University. Maria Gouskova gives an invited talk entitled Selectional restrictions as ph…Thu, 25 Apr 2013, 01:19 PM // blogs.nyu.edu
• Liina Pylkkanen's colloquium at Delaware
  Liina Pylkkanen is giving a colloquium on The Computations of the Composing Brain: Cross-modal generality and steps towards mechanisms in the Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science at the Unive…Thu, 25 Apr 2013, 01:12 PM // 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…
  May 2013 (Vol. 8, No. 7) News • Events • Who’s Doing WhatTue, 7 May 2013, 01:30 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Akinlabi to head ALS3
  The Third African Linguistics School (ALS3) will be held this year at Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria from July 14 to July 27.  The school will bring high-quality training in theoretical linguis…Tue, 7 May 2013, 12:45 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Linguists at Aresty
  The Linguistics department was very well-represented at the 9th Annual Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium, held Friday, April 19.  Congratulations to all the participants! Talks: Hannah Baker (Kr…Tue, 7 May 2013, 12:30 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Recent Appointments
    Todor Koev has accepted a postdoctoral position with Dr. Cornelia Ebert at the University of Stuttgart in the Institute of Linguistics. He will be contributing to the project Incremental Specificati…Tue, 7 May 2013, 12:15 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Department Events
  Friday, April 26, 1:00pm: SURGE talk featuring Matt Barros (Rutgers University) Harmonic sluicing with remnant/correlate pairs work and why 18 Seminary Place, room 108 Friday, May 3, 3:00pm: ST@R talk…Tue, 7 May 2013, 12:00 PM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Other Events
  Monday, May 13, 11:30am: Department of Spanish and Portuguese talk featuring Holger Hopp (Universität Mannheim, Germany) Generalizing individual differences in L2 processing Art History Hall, room 100…Tue, 7 May 2013, 11:30 AM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Publications by Our Linguists
  José Camacho. (April 2013) Null Subjects. Cambridge University Press. Shin-ichiroo Sano and Shigeto Kawahara. (to appear) A corpus-based study of geminate devoicing in Japanese: The role of the OCP an…Tue, 7 May 2013, 11:15 AM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Talks by Our Linguists
  Upcoming Talks Mark Baker. On alignment types interacting with differential object marking types. Conference on Differential Object Marking: University of Tromsø, May 23-24. Liliana Sánchez. Mapping o…Tue, 7 May 2013, 11:00 AM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• In This Issue . . .
  March 2013 (Vol. 8, No. 6) News • Events • Who’s Doing WhatFri, 5 Apr 2013, 10:38 AM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com
• Recent Appointments
  Aaron Braver has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Texas Tech University.  Congratulations, Aaron! Kristen Syrett has been appointe…Thu, 4 Apr 2013, 12:15 AM // rulingsnarl.wordpress.com

SFA

• SAT Used Invented Language in the 1920s
  In 1926, the standardized test known as the SAT was first administered. The version of the test was different from what it is now (of course), and the most amazing difference between what is was and w…Sat, 27 Apr 2013, 07:30 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Forensics and Assessment of Suicide Risk
  USAToday posted a story about a researcher who is working to teach a computer to assess the suicide risk levels of patients; he has a database of suicide notes and is using teams of investigators to t…Sun, 17 Mar 2013, 03:16 PM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Hawaiian Sign Language
  A recent article on CNN discussed Hawaiian Sign Language, a language still used by only about 40 people, most of whom are elderly. Researchers are working now to document this language before it's too…Mon, 4 Mar 2013, 05:44 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• IdiomSite
  I stumbled across a webpage with idioms, and it made me start to question how I would define some common English idioms. The webpage is IdiomSite.com, which features a banner across the top that defin…Tue, 26 Feb 2013, 05:00 AM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Atlas of True Names
  Thanks to a student who shared this website with the other Dr. Sams, I think I know what I want for Christmas this year--a map from Atlas of True Names.The atlas literally translates place names on ma…Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 03:55 PM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Visuwords: Graphical dictionary
  I've seen visual thesauri and dictionaries floating around the web, but I think the best one I've seen (or at least the one I've had the most fun with) is Visuwords, an online graphical dictionary. Wh…Sun, 24 Feb 2013, 05:14 PM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• Great Vowel Shift: Dinosaur Comics
  In History of the English Language, we were covering the Great Vowel Shift. My students asked why it occurred, and I had the pleasure of telling them, No one knows. One of the students spoke up and as…Thu, 15 Nov 2012, 08:01 PM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• The Joy of Phonetics: Getting help with IPA
  One area many students struggle with in linguistics is phonetics. Understanding IPA, the IPA charts, transcriptions, and the application of IPA to phonology can be quite frustrating for beginners. Luc…Tue, 25 Sep 2012, 04:30 PM // sfalingblog.blogspot.com
• 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

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• 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
• 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

SLA

• Shifting your deictic center
  In this guest post Anna Marie Trester, Director of the MA in Language and Communication (MLC) at Georgetown University, explains how the linguistic theory of deictics can help job seekers think about…Fri, 19 Apr 2013, 01:03 AM // linguisticanthropology.org
• AAA Elections 2013
  Elections for American Anthropological Association positions, including President-Elect, Executive Board members, and several committee positions, as well as elections for the Society for Linguistic A…Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 05:51 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• CFP: The Struggle Over Text and Context in the Healthcare Industry: Where Is Anthropological Insight
  Via Lissie Wahl-Kleiser: Lissie Wahl-Kleiser, Seth D. Hannah, Michael T. Nathan Contextualization is sine que non for anthropological interpretation. Applied industries, in contrast, favor literal int…Thu, 21 Mar 2013, 10:42 AM // linguisticanthropology.org
• Submissions Open Sapir Book Prize 2013
  Submissions are now open for the 2013 edition of the Sapir Prize. Deadline: May 1, 2013.Sat, 9 Mar 2013, 11:48 AM // linguisticanthropology.org
• Calls for papers: AAA 2013 panels
  Members of SLA and AAA are issuing calls for papers to join panels for the AAA annual meeting via linguistic anthropology email list LINGANTH. Links to recent calls are here.Fri, 22 Feb 2013, 11:51 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• SLA Graduate Student Research Paper Competition (March 11)
  The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of graduate student papers for the SLA’s Annual Student Essay Prize. Papers should be submitted by the deadline, which is March…Wed, 6 Feb 2013, 08:24 AM // linguisticanthropology.org
• SLA Submissions for AAA (March 15)
  The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) invites your submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting, which will be held this year in Chicago, Illinois, November 2…Tue, 5 Feb 2013, 02:24 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• M.A. Program in Linguistic Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
  M.A. PROGRAM IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY Flagstaff, Arizona The Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University offers one of the country’s best anthropology MA prog…Thu, 24 Jan 2013, 03:25 AM // linguisticanthropology.org
• Graduate Student Workshops at AES spring meetings
  Dear SLA Student Members, This year AES will be sponsoring four faculty-students workshops and one workshop for recent PhDs to provide an intimate environment for discussing issues important to AES as…Sun, 20 Jan 2013, 03:29 PM // linguisticanthropology.org
• Open Subfield Positions: UCLA Department of Anthropology
  Over the next one to two years, the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) seeks to hire two anthropologists for tenure-track positions at the Assistant or Asso…Fri, 18 Jan 2013, 09:55 PM // linguisticanthropology.org

Stanford

• Cibelli for P&P Workshop
  Today at 12:15 in the Greenberg Room, Emily Cibelli (Berkeley) will be presenting on some of her neurolinguistic work for the Phonetics and Phonology Workshop. Early processing pathways of words and p…Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:25 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• McCloskey Colloquium Today, Social After
  Come to the Greenberg Room (460-126) this afternoon for Jim McCloskey‘s (UCSC) colloquium on syntax and Irish. The talk will start at 3:30, and there will be a social after! Examining the syntax of no…Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:20 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Markman SymSys Forum Monday
  Come to the Greenberg Room on Monday 5/20 from 12:15-1:05. Ellen Markman (Psychology) will be presenting for the SymSys Forum, a talk entitled “How children generalize what they have learned: Factors…Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:15 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Edwards for Anthro brown bag Monday
  Terra Edwards (Berkeley) will be presenting for the Anthropology brown bag forum on Monday 5/20 from 12-1:05 in 50-51A. The title and abstract are below. Come on by! Language Emergence as Condensation…Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:10 AM // sesquipedalian.stanford.edu
• Stephen Fry on language change
  Watch comedian(?) Stephen Fry call out an interviewer for being a prescriptivist.Fri, 17 May 2013, 12:00 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, Monica!
  Congratulations to Monica Irimia, who has accepted a two-year postdoctoral research position at the University of York (England) at the Centre for Comparative and Historical Syntax, where she will wor…Wed, 22 May 2013, 01:13 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
  
• Research Groups: Syntax and Semantics (May 22/2013)
  Post courtesy of Julie DonerToday at syntax project, from 1-3 pm in SS1072: Tomohiro Yokoyama and Michelle Yuan will be giving dry runs for their CLA talks. Tomo's is titled Licensing of the question…Wed, 22 May 2013, 01:00 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
  
• Diane and Maayan at AFLA 20
  Diane Massam and Maayan Adar (B.A. 2012, now a M.A. student at McGill) are in Arlington, Texas at the 20th meeting of AFLA. They gave talks on Niuean argument structure and on Tagalog existentials, re…Tue, 21 May 2013, 01:46 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Congratulations, Cathleen!
  Good news from Cathleen Waters - she has accepted  an open-ended post as Lecturer in World Englishes at the University of Leicester! She finished her PhD in 2011, working in language variation and cha…Sat, 18 May 2013, 06:04 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Sali in the Star on effects of online language use
  The Toronto Star ran a story yesterday profiling Sali's work on online language use and also the work of students in her Language and the Internet class. Here is a link:http://www.thestar.com/life/201…Fri, 10 May 2013, 03:00 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Research Groups: Psycholinguistics (May 10/2013)
  Post courtesy of Daphna HellerThis is a reminder that we are having a psycholinguistics meeting today, Friday, May 10th at 10:15am (Sid Smith 560A). Mercedeh Mohaghegh will give a presentation entitle…Fri, 10 May 2013, 02:54 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• New Lecturer at UTM
  (Photo used with permission)Congratulations to Michelle Troberg, who has received a teaching-stream appointment at the rank of Lecturer in the Department of Language Studies at UTM! Michelle completed…Fri, 3 May 2013, 01:08 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Change and Variation in Canada 7
  The seventh annual Change and Variation in Canada (CVC 7) workshop is being held at the University of Toronto this weekend (May 4-5, 2013). This student-led event will bring together researchers worki…Fri, 3 May 2013, 01:53 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• SALT 23 and CVC 7
  Michela Ippolito is travelling to UC Santa Cruz this weekend to present at the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) conference taking place May 3-5. Her talk is entitled Counterfactuals, Simila…Thu, 2 May 2013, 09:31 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Congratulations to Sara Mackenzie!
  Sara Mackenzie (PhD 2009) has accepted a tenure-stream appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Memorial University (St. John's, Newfoundland). Congratulations, Sara!Thu, 25 Apr 2013, 10:00 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com

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• Research Groups: Psycholinguistics (April 26/2013)
  Post courtesy of Daphna HellerThe next meeting of the Psycholinguistics Group is this coming Friday, April 26th @ 10:15am. Marina Sherkina-Lieber will present her work entitled Effects of the second l…Thu, 25 Apr 2013, 09:56 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Research Groups: Syntax/Semantics (April 26/2013)
  Post courtesy of Julie DonerThere will be a meeting of the syntax/semantics research group this Friday, April 26th, from 12-2 pm in SS560A. Clarissa Forbes will be presenting Number and associativity…Thu, 25 Apr 2013, 09:51 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Photos of Outstanding Teaching Award Ceremony
  Photo courtesy of Taylor RobertsHere are some great pictures from the Outstanding Teaching Award ceremony held last week for Cristina Cuervo and the other award recipients. Thanks to Taylor Roberts fo…Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 11:26 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• New Phonology Professor
  We are pleased to announce that Peter Jurgec will be joining our faculty as a tenure stream Assistant Professor!Peter completed his PhD at the University of Tromsø in 2011 under the supervision of Cur…Thu, 18 Apr 2013, 09:48 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Two new linguists at the Centre for French & Linguistics (UTSC)!
  Posted courtesy of Karen McCrindleWe are delighted to announce the addition of two new faculty members to the Centre for French and Linguistics, both with a starting date of July 1, 2013.  Dr. Philip…Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 06:52 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Research Groups: Syntax/Semantics (April 12/2013)
  Syntax project will be held this Friday, April 12th, from 12-2 in SS560A. Michela Ippolito will be giving a talk entitled, Counterfactuals and conditional questions under discussion.Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 04:26 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Interview with Sali in U of T News
  This week's edition of U of T News features a more personal interview with Sali Tagliamonte, as one of U of T's recipients of this year's Killam Research Fellowships from the Canada Council for the Ar…Tue, 9 Apr 2013, 08:08 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Research Groups: Language Variation and Change (April 5/2013)
  Posted courtesy of Marisa BrookThis week's speaker is Anastasia Riehl (Queen's University), giving us an overview of her data-collection on Wolfe Island near Kingston. We'll be in SS 560A as usual.Our…Thu, 4 Apr 2013, 04:02 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Research Groups: Phonetics/Phonology (April 5/2013)
  Posted courtesy of Joanna Chociej Phonetics/phonology group is scheduled to meet this Friday, April 5th at 10am in SS560A.Yu-leng Lin will be presenting A production study on coronal sibilants of Taiw…Thu, 4 Apr 2013, 03:58 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Elaine's Language Museum in the Bulletin
  Posted courtesy of Jack ChambersThe Bulletin has a very colourful spread on the new Inuit exhibit by the Canadian Language Museum. Elaine Gold's name is not prominently displayed but most of us know h…Thu, 4 Apr 2013, 03:50 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Snapshots of Canadian Language Museum's Exhibit Opening
  Please enjoy these pictures taken by Radu Craioveanu for the opening of the Canadian Language Museum's Speaking the Inuit Way exhibit!The exhibit will be displayed in Wilson Lounge, New College until…Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 05:27 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Cristina Cuervo Wins Outstanding Teaching Award
  We are happy to announce that Cristina Cuervo is one of the recipients of the Faculty of Arts & Science's Outstanding Teaching Awards for 2013!This honour is awarded to faculty members who demonstrate…Fri, 29 Mar 2013, 09:39 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• GLOW 36
  Several members of our department are travelling to Lund, Sweden to present at the 36th GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) colloquium, which takes place April 2-6 this year.During the main…Fri, 29 Mar 2013, 09:02 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Practical BE-Keeping (BE-lated)
  Photo credit: Nicholas WelchPost courtesy of  Bronwyn Bjorkman A couple of weeks ago a bunch of us met for an informal mini-workshop: *Practical BE-Keeping*. The idea was to bring together members of…Wed, 27 Mar 2013, 11:41 AM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com
• Pictures from TOM 6
  Thank you to Michela Ippolito for sharing these photos from TOM 6!The U of T contingent (L to R: Tomohiro Yokoyama, Michela Ippolito, Tyler Peterson, Iryna Osadcha, and Julie Goncharov)Ana Arregui (UO…Tue, 26 Mar 2013, 10:06 PM // utlinguistics.blogspot.com

UC Davis

UCSC

• GRANT McGUIRE TO GIVE IHR FACULTY FELLOW TALK THIS FRIDAY
  As a Faculty Fellow this year of UCSC’s Institute for Humanities Research, our own Grant McGuire will give a talk this Friday, May 17th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210 (Not the Fireside, please…Tue, 14 May 2013, 08:40 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• CrISP SPONSORS TWO TALKS BY AD NEELEMAN THIS NEXT WEEK
  There will be two talks this week by Ad Neeleman (University College London), both organized by the Cross-Linguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) research group. On Wednesday, May 15th (…Tue, 14 May 2013, 08:39 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• LINGUISTICS GRADS SHINE AT GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
  The 9th annual Graduate Research Symposium took place last Friday, in its new venue within McHenry Library. Four Linguistics graduate students – Tommy Denby, Peter Fabian, Mark Norris, and Matt Ong –…Tue, 14 May 2013, 08:39 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• THREE STUDENTS – NOT ONE – RECEIVE DEAN’S UNDERGRADUATE AWARD!
  Last week we announced that one of our students won the Humanities-wide Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award. Correction! Three of our students received the award. They are Matilda Morrison, Emma Peopl…Tue, 14 May 2013, 08:38 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• SCARLETT CLOTHIER-GOLDSCHMIDT AWARDED LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP
  Many Congratulations to Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt, a junior Linguistics major in the BA/MA program, who was awarded a fellowship to attend this summer’s Linguistic Institute at the University of M…Tue, 14 May 2013, 08:37 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• STUDENTS ENTERING GRADUATE PROGRAMS
  The department is always excited to hear about its students entering graduate programs! Here are some that we know about so far for next Fall. Caroline Andrews (B.A. 2012) will enter the Ph.D. program…Tue, 14 May 2013, 08:37 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM!
  The 9th annual Graduate Research Symposium takes place Friday, May 10th, 2013, from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Information Commons South area of McHenry Library. Linguistics will be represented by Tommy Denb…Thu, 9 May 2013, 08:10 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• SEMANTICS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY CONFERENCE A SUCCESS
  The department is recovering from last week’s extremely successful Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference. Many people commented on the consistently high quality of the talks, and the conference w…Thu, 9 May 2013, 08:10 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• DONKA FARKAS RECEIVES DIZIKES TEACHING AWARD
  Many congratulations to Donka Farkas, who has won the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities this year! This is the sole teaching award covering the entire Humanities Division, offered to only o…Thu, 9 May 2013, 08:09 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu
• NICHOLAS PRIMROSE RECEIVES DEAN’S UNDERGRADUATE AWARD
  The department is proud to announce that one of its students, Nicholas Primrose, has won the Humanities-wide Dean’s Undergraduate Award for his research project titled “Japanese Numerals and Numeral Q…Thu, 9 May 2013, 08:08 PM // ohlone.ucsc.edu