Linguistics

Linguistics Humor - Pull Over Versus Pullover. A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the woman behind the wheel was knitting. ...  

The reason Palin’s accent sounds somewhat Minnesota is that she grew up in a region of Alaska originally populated by over 200 families who moved north in 1935 from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. This according to three University of Wisconsin linguists in an article titled “Dialect, Perceiving Dialect, and New Dialect Formation: Sarah Palin’s Speech,” which appears in the December issue of the Journal of English Linguistics. According to...  

Chris, who writes the blog The Lousy Linguist ("Notes on linguistics and cognition"), describes himself as "a rogue linguist who has worked in academia, government consulting, NLP, and the branding and marketing industry. I used to be a graduate student in linguistics specializing in the syntax-semantics interface and verb classes (can you say 'Ay-Bee-Dee' boys and girls?)." Why, yes I can, being one myself (ABD stands for "All But...  

Math Brackets for Linguistics? ← Previous revision Revision as of 20:14, 25 November 2009 Line 314: Line 314: ::You can use (1) ‹...› instead of angle brackets. By the same logic, there is an implicit consensus that one can use (2) ASCII <...> instead of them (you'd find more than 50 articles that have <...> already). Both should be equally okay. You don't need to change (1) to (2); you don't need to...  

← Previous revision Revision as of 03:52, 31 October 2009 Line 4: Line 4: His most influential work is in [[linguistics]] and [[philosophy]]: with the British linguist and philosopher [[Deirdre Wilson]] he has developed an innovative approach to linguistic interpretation known as [[relevance theory]] which is now mainstream in the area of [[pragmatics]], [[linguistics]], [[artificial intelligence]] and...  

Carleton Alumnus and Author Lecture Addresses 'Invented' LanguagesCarleton College NewsAs a linguistics major and graduate of the Carleton College Class of 1992, Okrent was drawn to language at a very young age. She earned an MA in Linguistics ...  

Qatar University hosts roundtable on English writingPeninsula On-lineDOHA: Qatar University's Department of English Literature and Linguistics hosted a roundtable on English Writing Pedagogy. The roundtable was aimed at ...QU tackles challenge of teaching writingGulf Timesall 3 news articles »  

A Barrier to Care?Baltimore SunThe CMI designation first will be available to Spanish language interpreters, with national certification for several other languages starting next year. ...Breast Cancer Physicians Have Limited Access to Trained InterpretersHealth Behavior News Serviceall 12 news articles »  

The Money TimesGoogle's Go Is Promising, but Still in DiapersPC WorldGoogle's Go could improve on existing programming languages by simplifying development without sacrificing application performance, but it will likely take ...Google 'Go' Name Brings Accusations Of 'Evil'InformationWeekGoogle says Go isn't ready for enterprise deploymentDailyTechGoogle Introduces Go Programming LanguageSci-Tech TodayTechNewsWorld -PC Magazine -ZDNetall 113...  

Professional ballerina Anna Tyutyunnyk visits Sioux Falls before upcoming showSioux Falls Argus LeaderA graduate of Odessa University, Tyutyunnyk is fluent in four languages. She was going to be an interpreter but later chose dance. ...and more »  

Bueno? Dobre? How to learn a foreign language onlineCNN InternationalIn fact, Grant Goodall, linguistics professor at the University of California, San Diego, says that if you spent a significant amount of time interacting in ...and more »  

Skewed ACTC participationMacalester College The Mac WeeklyShe can be found in Olin-Rice and the Humanities building most weekdays, where she takes classes for her linguistics and neuroscience double majors and ...and more »  

He's The CzarHillsboro Argus - OregonLive.comWe take this journey through linguistics with some curiosity. Our newly minted president has bestowed the term czar to those he has chosen to oversee ...  

Why Google's Go Might Be A No-GoInformationWeekMy friend's cynicism stemmed from his own experiences as a programmer, where he has seen languages come and seen them go (pun not intended), ...  

Excuse me, but do you speak Portland?OregonLive.comJeff Conn, a native of the Pacific Northwest and a doctoral student in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania is ...