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FILTER RESULTS ►Noam Chomsky & Rev. Osagyefo Sekou Discuss Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chomsky and Sekou on MLK from Rev. Osagyefo Sekou on Vimeo. Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Show More Summary
Artistic touristic linguistics
Andrew Spitz and Momo Miyazaki, students at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, posted this charming video of their cross-linguistic art project: WTPh? (What the Phonics) is an interactive installation set in the touristic areas of Copenhagen. Street names in Denmark are close to impossible for foreigners to pronounce, so we did a [...]
Metadata, Big Data, and the Financial Sector
Bryan Bell of Cogito reports that financial companies are wise to turn to semantic metadata for better Big Data analytics. Bell writes, “Financial institutions are looking to linguistics and semantics as the best option for managingShow More Summary
Call for Course Proposals: 2013 Linguistic Institute
Every other summer, the Linguistic Society of America holds a sort of summer school, traditionally known as a "Linguistic Institute". The 2011 Linguistic Institute was held at the University of Colorado at Boulder; the 2009 Institute was at University of California at Berkeley; the 2007 Institute was at Stanford; and so on. The courses at [...]
Linguistic Institute 2011
Every other year, the Linguistic Society of America has a sort of combination summer school, conference, and party known as a "Linguistic Institute". The 2011 edition will take place July 7-August 2 on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and there's still time to register. The Boulder Institute features more than 120 terrific [...]
The idiocy that is Noam Chomsky
The esteemed Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, noted author and total raving moonbat, was extremely upset that the man who planned and ordered four airliners to be seized and, loaded with fuel and passengers, flown into the two World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and — though [...]
Workshop announcement and call for posters: Testing Models of Phonetics and Phonology
Workshop announcement and call for posters Testing Models of Phonetics and Phonology Workshop at the Linguistic Institute 2011: Language in the World University of Colorado at Boulder Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Co-sponsored by Northwestern...Show More Summary
"Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies"
In the following TED talk, Patricia Kuhl of the Institute for Brain and Learning Sciences at the University of Washington discusses her lab's research into how babies learn their mother tongue. Thanks to a few interesting experiments...Show More Summary
Ectaco SpeechGuard(R) Assists Military Linguists
Ectaco SpeechGuard? Assists Military Linguists The Defense Language Institute’s Foreign Language Training Center utilizes SpeechGuard? to supplement their student’s formal language instruction PR Newswire — October 11, 2010 NEW YORK, Oct. Show More Summary
The many meaning(s) of “Uh(m)”s [Mad Linguistics]
What does "Uh(m)" mean? Professional linguists from a selection of highly respected international academic institutions have pondered the question in detail over the years, but now a new paper goes considerably further towards consolidating the answer(s). More »
Missionary linguistics
I've been pondering missionary linguistics lately and just saw this bit of news, about the arrest in the Philippines of someone wanted for the kidnapping of a missionary from the Summer Institute of Linguistics. SIL was just the subject...Show More Summary
The 2009 Linguistic Institute ends
Yesterday the six-week faculty and the second-session three-week faculty ended our teaching stints at the 2009 Linguistic Institute sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America and the University of California at Berkeley. The two...Show More Summary
Staff linguist
Mae Sander has passed on this fascinating story from the joint website of the Ghana Institute of Architects and the Architects Registration Council of Ghana. According to the story (attributed to Prof. Ablade Glover of the College of Arts of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi), every Ghanaian chief has a linguist. He [...]
A "dumb copy editor" story from George Lakoff
The party to have been at last night, I mean the place for a linguist to be seen, was Larry Hyman's house in Berkeley for the gathering that welcomed the faculty of the Linguistic Institute that the Linguistic Society of America is running on the Berkeley campus of the University of California for the next [...]
Reactions to Cheney's speech at the American Enterprise Institute (Part I)
I had two reactions while listening to former Vice President Richard Cheney's speech about national security yesterday, 21 May 2009. In this posting I will describe a purely linguistic and fairly trivial reaction. I'll also have another,...Show More Summary
DICTIONARY OF RUSSIAN DIALECTS ONLINE.
I discover from Anatoly that the ??????? ??????? ???????? ??????? (Dictionary of Russian dialects) is online, thanks to the Institute for Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This immense project has been under way...Show More Summary
2009 Linguistic Institute
From Andrew Garrett, a shameless plug for this summer's Linguistic Institute: Language Log readers may be interested to know that four LL authors — Adam Albright, Geoff Nunberg, Geoff Pullum, and Sally Thomason — will be teaching courses at the 2009 Linguistic Institute. Every other summer the Linguistic Society of America and a US linguistics department sponsor [...]
Shiny, Happy, Medilicious
A research duo from Dartmouth and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has discovered that cancer medications have names that are associated with "lightness, smallness, and fastness". Moreover, Gregory Abel, a Dartmouth linguist, goes fur...
A couple of new links
As recently announced on Finnish linguistic lists, the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland has published a new publicly accessible database. Evita contains references to linguistic literature dealing with the origins of...
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