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Aunt vs. Ant, Crayon vs. Cran, and other epic battles

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The Dialect Survey uses a series of questions, including rhyming word pairs and vocabulary words, to explore words and sounds in the English language. Find out how the way you talk correlates to where you live / grew up.

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A cognitive science and linguistics professor at the University of Rochester, and a University of Chicago post-doc, studied the sign systems of three deaf young adults in Nicaragua. They found all three had integrated the complicated, formal ideas of subjects, objects and verbs into their languages, even though no one had taught them language.

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The Elmo kids' book threat "Who wants to die" has a scientific explanation based on linguistic theory. Listen to the video as the author suggests to hear the sentence sound like different phrases depending on what you are expecting.

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Articles on Technology and Language Learning by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (ERIC/CLL), including Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Language Learning Experiences Through Internet Technology, Interactive Language Learning on the Web and more...

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Until I found this site, tmesis was my favorite linguistic term. It means to create a new word by inserting a word in the middle of another word. An example would be fan-freaking-tastic. But this site helped me find my new favorite word: dystmesis.

submitted by electrosoccertu 163 days ago (via http://www.physorg.com/news824...)

“I think it reflects how men’s power continues to influence American society despite the fact that women have made great advances economically and socially,” says U of F linguistics professor Diana Boxer. Automatically claiming suppression of women is the cause is just as sexist as me saying "Shutup and go do my laundry, bitch."

submitted by dclowd9901 211 days ago (via http://www.linguistics.ucla.ed...)

I was hunting around the web today for information on the science of linguistics, and happened across this online lesson from UCLA. Really interesting, especially the dissertion on inserting the word "fuckin" into the middle of words (page 5).

submitted by yellowbuddy 211 days ago (via http://www.behindthename.com/)

Ever wondered what your first name meant? Odds are you don't know. That's where this site comes in. It has thousands of names, from many different languages and cultures. "There are two reasons I created this site. First, I wanted to put something on the web that was unique. Second, etymology is a hobby and linguistics has always interested me."

submitted by pcmonline 239 days ago (via http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...)

The NEW TIES project is developing a computer-simulated society which may benefit ITs, computing systems, AI, and linguistics. One thousand agents will be placed in a simulated world with only a few skills and will have to learn how to acquire food and how to communicate. Experts will then study how the agents evolve into a culture.

submitted by rastaman 299 days ago (via http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...)

A new study conducted at Cornell University suggests that we think in analog, not digital. It's a bold claim which, if true, threatens to make thirty years of linguistics and neuroscience metaphors look very silly indeed.

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