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Read more... Frequently Asked Questions Why should I major in Linguistics? Why should I join the LSA ? How can I get involved in the Read More Go to Site Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology Votes:0 CSLU Home Page Next: Chapter 1 Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (1996) (postscript version) Editorial Board: Ronald A. Cole, Editor in Chief Joseph Mariani Hans Uszkoreit Annie Zaenen Victor Zue Managing Editors: Giovanni Battista Varile Antonio Zampolli Sponsors: National Science Foundation European Commission Additional support was provided by: Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA University of Pisa, Italy A hardcopy of this document is available from Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-59277-1 . Foreword from Ron Cole, editor in chief Foreword from Oscar Garcia, former NSF Program Manager Contents by Chapter Chapter 1: Spoken Language Input Chapter 2: Written Language Input Chapter 3: Language Analysis and Understanding Ch Read More Go to Site E minimal frame Votes:0 E minimal frame This is a Frames Setup Document.If you're reading this you need ---- Netscape 2.0 or higher or ... comparable Internet Explorer or ... Use Files Separately Constructed and Auxiliary Languages e to English In Loose Categories Rules - grammar, syntax, pronunciation e Log File (from 6/18/97) Rules.doc Dictionary - dic.doc Read More Go to Site Speech Analysis Tutorial Votes:0 Speech Analysis Tutorial I NTRODUCTION 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 and film, air-flow tubes, electromyography (EMG), spectrografs, mingografs, laryngographs etc. The aim for most of these methods is to visualize the speech signal in some way, and to try and capture some aspects of the speech signal on paper or on a computer screen. Today the computer is the most readi Read More Go to Site The Roots of Mambila Votes:0 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, regards it as the most diverse of the Mambiloid languages. The accepted view regarding this heterogeneity, established by Perrin & Hill (1969) and fostered by Zeitlyn (1994) as well as Blench, is that there is a basic division among the dialects giving two clusters. The boundary between the two essen Read More Go to Site "Nostratic Article" Votes:0 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 the Germans, who say "faust," "finger" and "funf." Traces of the pattern can even be found as far away as the Slavic languages like Russian. Conceivably, sometime in the distant past, before these languages split from the mother tongue, there was a close connection among the words for a hand and its fingers and th Read More Go to Site Afrikanska sprÅk vid GU Votes:0 Afrikanska sprÅk GÖTEBORGS UNIVERSITET Institutionen fÖr orientaliska och afrikanska sprÅk PERSONAL KURSER SEMINARIER FORSKNING PUBLIKATIONER NÄT-RESURSER LÄNKAR << Till startsidan AFRIKANSKA SPRÅK GÖteborgs universitet Box 200 405 30 GÖteborg TEL (031) 773 4618 FAX (031) 773 5270 Forskning VÅra forskningsaktiviteter Är i huvudsak inriktade pÅ sociolingvistiska och sprÅktypologiska studier av subsaharanska sprÅk, speciellt bantusprÅk. En del projekt Är samarbetsprojekt med universitet i Afrika och/eller Övriga Norden. Se Även universitets sÖkdatabas fÖr pÅgÅende forskning: GU Safari . 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Generally, languages can be shown to be related by having a large number of words in common that were not borrowed (cognates). Languages often borrow words from each other, but these are usually not too difficult Read More Go to Site Emory University: Linguistic Anthropology Votes:0 Emory University Linguistic Anthropology Home Page Linguistic anthropology is a broad interdisciplinary field which studies the evolution, distribution, and functions of human language in relation to human culture, society, cognition, and experience. The fields of linguistics, semiotics, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, performance studies, and folklore have many overlapping interests and share several common theoretical trajectories. Linguistic anthropology is primarily concerned with: The causes and social meanings of language variation within societies, and the sociohistorical development of different languages and linguistic varieties. The centrality of language for the human condition, as a medium of world-building, cognition, and identity negotiation. Language as it is used Read More Go to Site Etymologically Speaking... Votes:0 What follows is list of some curious word origins. Some of these are English, but some are French and German words from which we get some English words. Enjoy, and please let me know if you know of any other cool etymologies that I ought to add to the list! Also, I run a mailing list called RT where I send out some new, interesting etymologies that I discover every month (and other, non-philological items as well). Click here for more information. Or, you might like my brand new web site, Everyday Loopholes , how to get around all those annoying little things to get what you want. For some of my favorites, see Companion , Kopf , Porcelain , and Tennis . Abacus Comes from the Greek word abax, which means "sand tray." Originally, columns of pebbles were laid out on the sand for purposes of c Read More Go to Site Explore Linguistics - Department of Linguistics - University of Oregon Votes:0 Explore Linguistics Linguistics Olympiad Ask A Linguist Useful Links Explore Pages created by UO Linguistics Undergrads Languages of Oregon by Mollie Jackson Writing Systems of the World by Mari Smith Sociolinguistics by Cyndi Pattee Facts 'n' Figures by Lyndley Ellison & Deborah Pore Explore Linguistics The Explore! Linguistics site is devoted to introducing the study of language and linguistics to high school students and others who may be interested. We have included here an array of activities that we hope visitors will find both interesting and educational. Browse and enjoy! Linguistics Olympiad The "Linguistic Olympiad" is a fun and educational problem-solving activity designed for secondary school students (ages 11 through 18). Students compete by solving puzzles based on Read More Go to Site Genetic Distance and Language Affinities Votes:0 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 history of languages and the initial dispersal of the human species across the world, some think it is too speculative and questionable for us to have great confidence in the results. Nevertheless, Cavalli-Sforza developed the material in a recent book, Genes, Peoples, and Languages [University of California Read More Go to Site Indo-European and the Comparative Method Votes:0 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-europeanist may be interested in the TITUS Indo-European Resources project in Stuttgart (eventually in many languages, but currently only German and Spanish). Okay, in 1786 Sir William Jones announced to the Asiatick Society of Calcutta that Sanskrit had to be related to Greek and Latin, touching off Read More Go to Site KryssTal : Language Families Votes:0 [Home Page] [Language Page] [Indo-European] [Uralic] [Altaic] [Sino-Tibetan] [Malayo-Polynesian] [Afro-Asiatic] [Caucasian] [Dravidian] [Austroasiatic] [Niger-Congo] [Other Families] [Feedback (Language Families)] [Language Families] [The English Language] [Borrowed Words in English] [Writing] [Words and Names] [The World's Most Spoken Languages] [UK and USA English] [Cockney English] [London Place Names] [Grammar] [It's a WORLD Wide Web] [Readers' Feedback (Languages)] [Language] [Travel] [Democracy] [Eclipses] [London] [Astronomy] [Mathematics] [Physics] [Chemistry] [Football] [Television] [Other] Sponsored Link Spanish Language Schools Intensive Language Courses Cactus Teachers Language Families Introduction to the more important language families including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic Read More Go to Site Language and Popular Culture in Africa - Home Page Votes:0 Introducing LPCA LPCA Advisory Board Using LPCA materials LPCA now and in the future How to contribute Contact us LPCA Editorials: Texts and ownership LPCA: Where are we? explore the LPCA website: L anguage and P opular C ulture in A frica read our mission statement in French and Swahili (14 January 2005) Dear visitors to the site, It is a pleasure to add a brief editorial in French and Katanga/Shaba Swahili . We are grateful to dr. Achille Mutombo for both versions. Concerning the text in Katanga/Shaba Swahili we had explicitly asked him to write as people in Lubumbashi would write who had no formal instruction in Swahili. We think that both our fellow linguists and the people whose language we are documenting in these archives will read this introduction with interest. But we are aware t Read More Go to Site Language Varieties Votes:0 In this site, you will find: definitions of 5 types of language varieties descriptions of particular varieties spoken around the world (see the map below) tips for using language varieties in the classroom (where you can have your say as well) a list of links to other websites some additional references (where you can make some suggestions, too). Welcome to the Language Varieties Web Site!! This site is about varieties of language that differ from the standard variety that is normally used in the media and taught in the schools. These include pidgins , creoles , regional dialects , minority dialects and indigenized varieties . Many people think that these varieties are just incorrect ways of speaking, but they're not; they're just different! These varieties have their own ways of pronounci Read More Go to Site Language, Primordialism and Sentiment Votes:0 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 which our whole soul was interwoven, when can we ever mistake them? When can we ever forget them? Maternal language was our first world, it conveyed the first sensations that we felt, the first activity and cheerfulness that we enjoyed. The associated ideas of place and time, of love and hatred, of joy and activity, and all that t Read More Go to Site Linguistics Theory, Foundations, and Modern Development Votes:0 Linguistics Theory, Foundations, and Modern Development An Overview of Linguistics and Linguistic Applications Prepared for Gary Blahnik, The Union Institute Austin Ziegler, 15 March 1995 Last Modified: 12 October 1996 Welcome to another small, but growing resource for folks interested in studying linguistics. This currently represents my undergraduate study of linguistics, but as I study more since I have graduated, I will add to this. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to let me know at fantome@usa.net . In particular, I'm interested in the relationship of formal languages and natural languages, and by extension the relationship between language and computers. Navigation around Linguistics . This paper is organized in three levels: 1. Chapters 2. Sections 3. Subsections The fo Read More Go to Site Locations of ÑÄhÑu (OtomÍ), Nahua, Totonac, Tepehua,and Spanish Speaking People of the Eastern Sierra of Hidalgo, the NorthernSierra de Puebla, and the Southern Huasteca by James W Dow. Votes:0 Locations of ÑÄhÑu (OtomÍ), Nahua, Totonac, Tepehua, and Spanish Speaking People of the Eastern Sierra of Hidalgo, the Northern Sierra de Puebla, and the Southern Huasteca. © 1998 James W. Dow VersiÓn en espaÑol The maps linked to this page show the distribution of all languages spoken in and around the eastern sierra of Hidalgo of Mexico. The maps show the distribution of the Nahua (Aztec, Mexicano), ÑÄhÑu (OtomÍ), Totonac, Tepehua, and Spanish (Castellano), languages. The maps were developed during ethnographic field work in 1989 and 1990 and cover the area from 20° to 20° 45' north latitude and from 97° 40' to 98° 30' west longitude. The article The Mapping of Cultural Traits from Field Data describes the making of the maps and the sources of the data. The maps are presented here in two Read More Go to Site Maasai Language Project Votes:0 Maasai Language Project Site Map The Language-and-Culture Link There is inevitably an intimate connection between any culture and its associated language: Culture is transmitted from one generation to the next via language. The lexicon (words) of a language express concepts central to the culture. Associations between words often reveal conceptual networks specific to that culture ( often complicating issues in translation from one language to another). The family picture to the right is emblematic of many changes currently taking place in Maasai culture. Traditional Maasai life is impacted by major cities like Nairobi , which are located in what was traditional Maasai grazing land, and by tourists, western education, commerce, modern entertainment, national land policies, etc. Cultural co Read More Go to Site MAS Model of Vowel Perception Votes:0 Waveform Model of Vowel Perception and Vowel Production The Result of Waveform Identification Michael A. Stokes "It is not possible to look at the waveform of an utterance and say what sounds occurred", (Ladefoged, 1982, A Course in Phonetics, p. 168). The impossible is now possible. Waveform Model of Vowel Perception Posted 9/18/2007 - Original model posted in 1998 PDF Format Talker Identification from Analysis of Raw Complex Waveforms Added to the site on 12-7-01 (needs editing) 2001 ASA Presentation Male and female vowels identified by visual inspection of raw complex waveforms - 8-9-01 Graphic Waveform Displays Updated on 1-5-2001 Female and Child Formant Values Added on 10-5-2000 Author's Background Updated on 9-19-07 Since December 1998 to January 23, 2007 there were 17,000 visits. T Read More Go to Site Mesoamerican Languages Documentation Project Votes:0 Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica (PDLMA) El Proyecto para la DocumentaciÓn de las Lenguas de MesoamÉrica (PDLMA) Terrence Kaufman , John Justeson and Roberto Zavala Maldonado , directors This site presents the aims, history, and results of research by the Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica, internally known as the "Snake Jaguar Project". The pages that describe the aims and history of the Project, and instructions for access to and use of posted materials, are updated at moderately frequent intervals. The online databases and the NO FRAMES version that we are making available will be updated only at intervals of about a year or more. Papers by project members are posted irregularly. This page was last revised on April 17, 2001. Aims a Read More Go to Site Mesoamerican Languages Documentation Project Votes:0 Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica (PDLMA) El Proyecto para la DocumentaciÓn de las Lenguas de MesoamÉrica (PDLMA) Terrence Kaufman , John Justeson and Roberto Zavala Maldonado , directors This site presents the aims, history, and results of research by the Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica, internally known as the "Snake Jaguar Project". The pages that describe the aims and history of the Project, and instructions for access to and use of posted materials, are updated at moderately frequent intervals. The online databases and the NO FRAMES version that we are making available will be updated only at intervals of about a year or more. Papers by project members are posted irregularly. This page was last revised on April 17, 2001. Aims a Read More Go to Site MORIBUND LANGUAGES OF THE NIGERIA-CAMEROON BORDERLAND Votes:0 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 Nigeria - Cameroon borderland Nigeria and Cameroon are recognized as being the two most linguistically heterogeneous countries in Africa; indeed with 700 - 800 languages between them (roughly 12% of the world's languages), they constitute one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the world, despite having well b Read More Go to Site Newswise | Votes:0 Username: Password: forgotten login how to register ABOUT NEWSWISE Overview of Services Media Subscribers Source Institutions What's New Contact Us LIBRARIES Latest News SciNews MedNews LifeNews BizNews Video/Audio RSS Feeds Search CHANNELS Breaking News Features RESOURCES Expert Finder Tools Contact Directory Meetings Calendars Awards for Journalists Grants for Journalists SUPPORT Newswise Community How to Register © Newswise. All Rights Reserved. Source: Ohio State University Released: Sat 31-Oct-1998, 00:00 ET Printer-friendly Version Was Nostratic A Real Language Libraries Life News (Arts and Humanities) Keywords NOSTRATIC LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description Nostratic is a language hypothesized to be the common ancestor of a numbe Read More Go to Site NOVA | Transcripts | In Search of the First Language | PBS Votes:0 --> Home TV Schedule Support Shop Watch Online Teachers Podcasts RSS 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. 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E-MAIL: jah7@pacbell.net Copyright © 1996-2006 John Alan Halloran, Los Angeles, California. All Rights Reserved. Last modified on September 13, 200 Read More Go to Site The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean Votes:0 StudyWeb The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean Table of Contents Introduction Syntactic structure Origin of the verbal endings Original system of gender and case The phonetic law -CnT# > -Cr(T)# Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages Summary Written by Hans-Joachim Alscher e-mail: hans.alscher@noel.gv.at Read More Go to Site The Extended Mind Votes:0 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 between them. This paper builds from the results of The Fifth Language (R. K. Logan, Toronto, Stoddart, 1995) which assumes that language is both a communication and an informatics tool to show that speech, writing, math science and computing form an evolutionary chain of languages. Adding to these notio Read More Go to Site The Great Vowel Shift Votes:0 Please email us with your comments and suggestions. You must have Quicktime to hear the sounds on this site. Download it here . Mac Users! Go to the instruction page before going to the See and Hear page. About this site | Furman University | English Department | Melinda Menzer's Home hits since 9/19/00 Copyleft © Melinda J. Menzer 2000 Read More Go to Site THE INTEGRITY OF MAMBILOID Votes:0 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 provided some structure to the classification of the Bantoid group, splitting Bantoid in two and placing the languages now known as the Mambiloid group within non-Bantu Bantoid (now North and South Bantoid, respectively, though some details as to membership of each have changed). This classification has subsequently Read More Go to Site The Origins and Emergence of West Semitic Alphabetic Scripts Votes:0 Prof. James R. (Jim) Harris Dann W Hone Enter The Origins and Emergence of West Semitic Alphabetic Scripts An Introduction to J. R. Harris, D. W Hone And To Old Negev The Old Negev Script & Proto-Canaanite Language: Drawing from the main geographic location of its apparent origins the term "Old Negev" script refers to unique archaic (2nd to 1st millennium BC) West Semitic inscriptions found initially on rock surfaces and pottery fragments in the region located between the boarders of Egypt, Israel and the Jordan today. Specifically, a corpus of more than 140 panels have been identified in the deserts and the steppes between the Edomite Escarpment and the Aravah of Jordan and Israel, and extending through the central Negev (Nahal Avadot, Har Karkom) and the Northern Sinai regions. 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Human Communication Science London Linguistics Circle Advanced Core Training in Linguistics More Sites NOTE TAKERS NEEDED More information --> Upcoming Events See entire events schedule Date & time Title Speaker Location 27 Nov, 16:15 The evolution of metarepresentations, communication and trust Prof. Dan Sperber , Leverhulme Read More Go to Site Views of linguists and anthropologists on the Ebonics issue (Part 1) Votes:0 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 miNOrity?" KRS-1/BoogieDownProductions "Why Is That?" From Ghetto Music: THe Blueprint of Hip Hop. Copyright 1989 Jive Records (BMG) Leila Monaghan, Gender and Feminist Studies, Pitzer College The Oakland School Board?s December 18, 1996 proposal to recognize "Ebonics," often known as African American Vernacular Eng Read More Go to Site Welcome to the TAMU Anthropology Department! Votes:0 Welcome to the Department of Anthropology! Anthropology is the study of humankind over the entire world and throughout time. Anthropologists study existing cultures and human behavior (cultural anthropology), traditions (folklore), prehistoric cultures and lifeways (archaeology), the biological makeup and evolution of humans (physical anthropology), and the origin and nature of language (linguistics). Texas A&M University began an academic and research program in Anthropology in 1971. Today there are twenty-three full time faculty members and several full time research staff members. 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