Linguistics

If you're looking at phonemes, that is. Fengxian's Dondac dialect has 20 vowel qualities, and according to researchers at Fudan University who studied a total of 579 languages from 95 linguistic families, that takes the phonemic cake. [ more › ]  

This story is contributed by a member of the Knoxville community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Knoxville News Sentinel Greenway School students won second place in the middle school division in the sixth annual statewide ...  

A research project by local scientists demonstrates that the Caspian Sea might be the origin for modern language. Fudan University researchers studied 579 languages from 95 linguistic families in an effort to...  

Ryan Tronier, producer of The Browser on KSL radio, did a segment about the language game my daughter and her friends speak. He says, I sent the recording of your daughter to the linguistics department at the University of Utah on Monday. One of the PhD students decoded your daughter’s language game. We put together [...]  

Alan Jacobs writes about the boom in crossplatform e-book technology driven by Bible translators, and its (positive!) implications for the survival of dying natural languages. (Be sure to read the passage he cites from the Hawai’i Pidgin translation of Acts 1.)  

[Reposted from S&P Editors Blog] We were curious to see how S&P is doing as far as the impact of published articles on the field is concerned. Below we have compiled a list of all articles published in the four main semantics journals (Linguistics & Philosophy, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of Semantics, Semantics & Pragmatics) since 2008 (the year of S&P’s first published article) that have received 10 citations or more according to...  

Ceylon Daily NewsProfessor JB Disanayake - pioneer LinguistCeylon Daily NewsA thorough gentleman and a towering figure in the field of Linguistics, Professor Disanayake discussed his forte. Hailing from Rambukkana, a typical Kandyan village off Kegalle, he studied for three years at Dharmaraja College Kandy and then spent 10 ...  

Foreign languages approved for elementary schoolsDarien TimesAfter years of debate and discussion, the Board of Education approved a plan to include foreign languages in the elementary schools. The vote was 6-1, with Amy Bell against. Board members George Reilly and Morgan Whittier were absent. ...and more »  

Ghana Institute of Languages gets new DirectorVibe GhanaA new Director for Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL) was on Friday inducted into office at a twin ceremony, which saw the launching of GIL's Golden Jubilee celebrations in Accra. Dr John Rex Amuzu Gadzekpo, who until his appointment as Director of the ...and more »  

The Mobile IndianGoogle Translate for Android now recognizes handwriting in seven languagesThe VergeBy Eddie Fu on December 16, 2011 01:05 pm 3Comments The Google Translate for Android app has been updated with a new handwriting recognition feature that works with seven different languages, including Chinese and Japanese, as well as English, French, ...Google Translate Updated, Now Allows For Handwriting Recognition In Seven ...Android...  

Duolingo will translate the internet while teaching languagesThe VergeBy Adi Robertson on December 16, 2011 01:27 am 13Comments A new project by one of the creators of the CAPTCHA (that impossible-to-read text that sites use to make you prove you're human) aims to crowdsource translating the internet by letting people ...Duolingo wants you to help translate the webUbergizmoall 2 news articles »  

Learn tourists' languages – MasidiThe Borneo PostKOTA KINABALU: Operators in the tourism industry in Sabah have been urged to master foreign languages for them to go far. Minster of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Datuk Masidi Manjun said during the 2011/2012 Sabah Young Tourism Ambassador ...  

Siliconrepublic.comAILO fosters next generation of Irish computational linguistsSiliconrepublic.comSome 700 Irish students will this week explore the languages of the world as the 2012 edition of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation's All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) gets under way. The competition challenges secondary school students ...  

Doctoral prospects tour UT Arlington campus FridayUTA The ShorthornRachel Sales, linguistics graduate student at the University of North Texas, said she was pleasantly surprised with her campus visit. It helped dispel the myth that UTA is a commuter school, she added, referring to the university's facilities and ...and more »  

Native languages at high risk of extinctionCherokee PhoenixAccording to a report released by the US Census Bureau, some American Indian and Alaska Native languages spoken at home are highly at risk of extinction with some exceptions. The report, known as Native North American Languages Spoken at Home in the US ...and more »