Copyright 1995 The New York Times Company The New York Times June 27, 1995, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final Section C; Page 1; Column 4; Science Desk 2309 words Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language By George Johnson IN their archeological digs through the strata of human language, linguists have long been fascinated by the seeming similarities between the English words "fist," "finger" and "five." The motif is repeated by the Dutch, who say "vuist," "vinger" and "vijf," and ...

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov Scientific American, March 1990, P.110 THOMAS V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. IVANOV are the authors of The Indo-European Language and the Indo-Europeans, a two-volume work published in Russian in 1984; an English version is published by Mouton de Gruyter. Gamkrelidze directs the Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies in Tbilisi and is a professor of linguistics at Tbilisi State University. Ivanov is professor of linguistics and chair of the department of Slavic languages at the Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies in Moscow. The authors wish to thank Gerard Piel, chairman emeritus of Scientific American, for helping to prepare this article for publication.

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Introduction to Historical Linguistics Historical linguistics is the study of not only the history of languages, as the name implies, but also the study of how languages change, and how languages are related to one another. It might seem at first that this would be a rather dull, uneventful field of study, but that is far from the truth. Historical linguistics is full of lively debate and controversy (I'll point out controvercial things when they come), and occasionally some nasty words are ...

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Genetic Distance and Language Affinities Between Autochthonous Human Populations The first two of the following tables was originally drawn from one article in Scientific American, "Genes, peoples and languages," by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (November, 1991). This reported the results of genetic mapping of human DNA affinities, the newest theories about larger families of human languages, and a comparison between the two. While this was a thrilling prospect for understanding the early ...

McNeill, David & Duncan, Susan D. (1998) Growth Points in Thinking-For-Speaking. GROWTH POINTS IN THINKING-FOR-SPEAKING David McNeill and Susan D. Duncan 1. INTRODUCTION Many bilingual speakers believe they engage in different forms of thinking when they shift languages. This experience of entering different thought worlds can be explained with the hypothesis that languages induce different forms of `thinking-for-speaking'-- thinking generated, as Slobin (1987) says, because of ...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask! Kathleen Hubbard's answer to the question "How do we know what we know about Proto-Indo-European and other languages that died out before they were written down? [Kathleen is assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. She describes herself as a "recovering Indo-Europeanist."] I have also appended some bibliography at the end. The hard-core indo ...

Learn Spanish Spanish CoursesLanguage Courses London Language Teachers LondonTEFL & CELTA Teaching English Language Families Introduction to the more important language families including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Malayo-Polynesian, Niger-Congo, Dravidian and others Introduction It appears that the use of language came about independently in a number of places. All languages change with time. A comparison of Chaucer's English, Shakespere's E ...

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Language, Primordialism and Sentiment Harold Schiffman South Asian Studies University of Pennsylvania Paper delivered at American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, December 2, 1998 More recently published in G. Palmer and D. Occhi (eds.), Languages of Sentiment. Volume 18 of Advances in Consciousness Research. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 25-38. The words of childhood--these early companions in the dawn of our existence, with whi ...

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MORIBUND LANGUAGES OF THE NIGERIA-CAMEROON BORDERLAND Bruce Connell Institute of Social and Cutural Anthropology Oxford University 51 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6PE email: connellb@ermine.ox.ac.uk presented at the Symposium on Language Endangerment in Africa Leipzig, July 29 - 31, 1997 Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland[*] Bruce Connell Institute of Social and Cultural and Social Anthropology Oxford University 1. Introduction 1.1. Language endangerment in the Nig ...

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"In Search of the First Language" PBS Airdate: March 18, 1997 ANNOUNCER: Tonight on NOVA, for a stranger in a foreign land, language can be an imposing barrier. But there are surprising similarities among the languages of the world. Could it be that at one time long ago, we all spoke the same language? JAMES MATISOFF: It's very nice to think about the days before Babel, when everybody spoke exactly the same way. ANNOUNCER: Tantalizing new clues are challenging s ...

Welcome to the home page of the TELSUR PROJECT at the Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania The Telsur Project is a survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English, supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is the creator of the Atlas of North American English [ANAE], The Atlas will be published in December 2005 by Mouton/de Gruyter. It will be accompanied by a CD-ROM version developed by a ...

The Proto-Language(1) is a hypothetically reconstructed language based on the comparison of attested vocabularies and grammars. Press here to view essays on the Proto-Language. The Proto- Religion is a hypothetically reconstructed religion based on the comparison of attested beliefs. Press here to view essays on the Proto- Religion. 12 ...

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Speech Analysis Tutorial INTRODUCTION Phonetics is part of the linguistic sciences. It is concerned with the sounds produced by the human vocal organs, and more specifically, the sounds which are used in human speech. One important aspect of phonetic research is the instrumental analysis of speech. This is often referred to as experimental phonetics, or machine phonetics. The instrumental analysis is performed using one or many of the available instruments. These include X-ray photography ...

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The Extended Mind: Understanding Language and Thought in Terms of Complexity and Chaos Theory Robert K. Logan Assoc. Prof. of Physics - University of Toronto Short Abstract: The origins of speech and the human mind are shown to have emerged simultaneously as the bifurcation from percepts to concepts. Long Abstract Ideas from dynamic systems theory will be used to address a number of fascinating questions related to the origin of language and thought and the dynamic relationship that exists ...

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THE INTEGRITY OF MAMBILOID Bruce Connell Institute of Social and Cutural Anthropology Oxford University 51 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6PE email: connellb@ermine.ox.ac.uk presented at the Second World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig, July 27 - August 3 1997. The Integrity of Mambiloid[*] Bruce Connell Oxford University 1. Introduction Since Greenberg (1963), Mambila has been recognized as comprising part of Bantoid. Williamson (1971) first proposed a classification which provid ...

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Bernhard Debatin *Précis of* The Rationality of Metaphor: An Analysis Based on the Philosophy of Language and Communication Theory (Die Rationalität der Metapher. Eine sprachphilosophische und kommunikationstheoretische Untersuchung Berlin, De Gruyter: 1995, 381 p.) Since Aristotle, the philosophical discourse on metaphor has been characterized by a basic ambivalence toward the qualities of metaphor: Though metaphor has indeed been acknowledged to have creative, heuristic, and orientation ...

The Roots of Mambila: Convergence and divergence in the development of Mambila Bruce Connell University of Oxford Text of a paper presented at the 26th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands, Sept. 5–7 1996. Comments and discussion welcome Abstract The Mambila language comprises a cluster of dialects which straddle the Nigeria–Cameroon border. One of the striking aspects of Mambila is its apparent internal diversity – Blench (1993), for example, regar ...

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Views of linguists and anthropologists on the Ebonics issue (Part 1) Compiled by Leila Monaghan of Pitzer College for the February 1997 Society for Linguistic Anthropology column "We're not here for glamor or FAshion but here's the question I'm askin Why isn't young black kids taught BLACK? They're only taught to read, write, and act It's like teaching a dog to be a cat you don't teach a DOG to be a cat you don't teach WHITE kids to be BLACK why IS that? Is it because we're the miNO ...

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