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2010-09-03

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02:35:39: 21.3507, FYI: Free Sociolinguistic Articles from Routledge

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02:34:29: 21.3506, Disc: Re: Medium of Instruction in Haiti

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02:34:29: 21.3506, Disc: Re: Medium of Instruction in Haiti

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02:29:47: 21.3505, Disc: Etymology of 'Urdu'

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02:29:47: 21.3505, Disc: Etymology of 'Urdu'

2010-09-02

UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Department

21:11:03: FAJL 5
Between May 7th and May 9th 2010, the department hosted the Fifth Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference, which was sponsored by the Linguistics Research Cent...
21:11:03: CHUNG TO BE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE LSA
In a recent annoucement, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) confirmed the election of Sandy Chung as Vice President and President-Elect of the organization. Sandy was elected to the position following a ballot of all members of the society and ...
21:11:03: Grant McGuire Joins the UCSC Linguistics Department
We are pleased to announce that Grant McGuire will join the department as a permanent member of the faculty in 2009. McGuire is an experimental phonetician trained at the Ohio State University and at ...
21:11:03: LURC 2010 (Annual Undergraduate Research Conference)
The department's annual celebration of undergraduate research (LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference) will take place on Friday June 4th in Room 210 of Humanities One. The conference features 5 papers on a wide variety of topics in sema...
21:11:03: AFLA 16
The 16th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16) took place at UCSC on May 1-3, 2009, hosted by the Linguistics Research Center and the Department. Go
21:11:03: Alumni Conference
On Friday September 12th and Saturday September 13th 2008, the department hosted its first ever Graduate Alumni Conference, designed to celebrate the achievements of the graduate program ...
21:11:03: Lecture by Distinguished Alumnus Rickford
On Wednesday October 22nd 2008, the department joined with Stevenson College in sponsoring a lecture by John Rickford. Rickford i...
21:11:03: Hiring
The Department invites applications for an on-going pool of qualified temporary lecturers. (Job Description)

Linguistics

21:11:02: Linguistics to hold commencement ceremony and reception
Students who are receiving BA, MA and PhD degrees in Linguistics will be honored on May 11, 2007, at a departmental ceremony and reception recognizing their achievements. The Linguistics ceremony, which will recognize graduates along with their friends and family members, will take place following the University commencement ceremony at Folsom field. It will be held in Hellems 196 at approximately 11 AM, and will feature an address by language development specialist Prof. Lise Menn. Prof Menn, an elected fellow of the Linguistics Society of America, will be retiring from CU this August after a 20-year career.
21:11:02: CU Linguistics website wins CASE award
The Colorado Linguistics website has been honored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The website received a Bronze Award in the CASE 2007 District VI website design awards competition. The site was judged on the design and content in competition with entries from several other midwestern universities. Colorado Linguistics shares this honor with the CU Office of Web Communications, which designed this site in collaboration with Department faculty and staff.
21:11:02: David Rood receives National Science Foundation grant for Lakota documentation
David S. Rood, CU Professor of Linguistics, has received a National Science Foundation grant that will underwrite large-scale video documentation of Lakota, an indigenous language of the northern plains with approximately 8,000-9,000 living speakers. The grant will provide full support to three Lakota speakers for three years each, starting in the Fall of 2007. The support packages will enable these students to earn the MA degree in Linguistics while assisting in the video documentation of everyday Lakota conversation. The Lakota documentation effort will join an array of research and outreach projects already underway at CU's Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the West.
21:11:02: Endangered Language Fund Announces Bill Bright Award
The Endangered Language Fund has created the Bill Bright Award, in honor of the late William O. Bright, CU adjoint professor of Linguistics. The award commemorates Prof. Bright's contributions to linguistics, and his service to the profession as editor of Language, 1966-87, Language in Society, 1992-99, the first edition of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics and Written Language and Literacy, 1998-2003. The award will be given to an outstanding funding applicant proposing a research project on a language of the Americas or South Asia.
21:11:02: CU Linguistics Professional TESOL MA website goes live
CU Linguistics is rolling out a new MA in Linguistics for TESOL Professionals, with a projected start date of Fall 2007. The Professional MA degree program with diploma will provide a cohesive, professionally oriented program that addresses the increased demand for professionalization in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language.
21:11:02: Lise Menn elected Fellow of the Linguistics Society of America
CU Linguistics professor Lise Menn has been elected as a Fellow of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA). The LSA fellows program was established in 2006 to "recognize extraordinary contributions to the discipline and the Society". Prof. Menn will be inducted along with nine other fellows in January 2007 at the annual meeting of the LSA in Anaheim, CA.
21:11:02: Rebecca Scarborough to join CU Linguistics faculty
Dr. Rebecca Scarborough, currently a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Stanford University, will be joining the CU Linguistics faculty as an assistant professor in the fall of 2007. Dr. Scarborough, who received her PhD from UCLA in 2004, specializes in the effects of lexical factors on speech production and perception, listener-directed speech phenomena, variability in coarticulation and intonational phonology. As a CU faculty member, she will teach courses in phonetics and phonology at both the graduate and undergradate levels and direct a state-of-the-art phonetics laboratory.
21:11:02: Martha Palmer receives new DARPA grants for research in computational semantics
Martha Palmer, CU associate professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, has received two new grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to perform semantic annotation of large language databases for machine translation and other natural-language processing applications. The aim of the first project is to expand Prof. Palmer's Propbank database for English and Chinese; the aim of the second is to build a pilot Propbank database for Arabic. The Arabic Propbank pilot project involves researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, as well as CU Linguistics PhD student Aous Mansouri, who is serving as a research assistant on the project.
21:11:02: Zygmunt Frajzyngier gives plenary talk at Second Conference on the Syntax of the World's Languages
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, CU Professor of Linguistics, gave a plenary address, entitled 'Grammatical and Semantic Relations under Constraints and Opportunities: Toward a Nonaprioristic Syntax', at the Second Conference on the World's Languages, held at Lancaster University, UK, September 14-17, 2006.
21:11:02: Andrew Cowell publishes major anthology of Arapaho narratives
Andrew J. Cowell, CU associate professor of Linguistics and French and Italian, and director of CU's Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the West, has teamed up with Alonzo Moss, Sr., the son of traditional storyteller Paul Moss, to produce Hinono'einoo3itoono / Arapaho Historical Traditions, as told by Paul Moss. At over 500 pages, this work, which is being published by University of Manitoba Press, is the first major bilingual anthology of Arapaho narratives, with introduction, linguistic and literary analyses, notes, a grammar sketch, and a glossary. Alonzo Moss, Sr. is co-chair of the Northern Arapaho Cultural Commission and has been working on the publication of his father's texts for over two decades.

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19:56:00: 21.3504, Qs: Directives and Tags in Children's Pretend Play

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19:56:00: 21.3504, Qs: Directives and Tags in Children's Pretend Play

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17:51:15: 21.3503, Confs: Phonology, Syntax/Norway

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17:51:15: 21.3503, Confs: Phonology, Syntax/Norway

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17:28:57: 21.3502, Jobs: French/Italian/Lang Acq: Lang Program Director, Dartmouth College

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17:28:57: 21.3502, Jobs: French/Italian/Lang Acq: Lang Program Director, Dartmouth College

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17:20:34: 21.3501, Jobs: General Ling: Asst/Assoc Professor or Lecturer, Grinnell College

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17:20:34: 21.3501, Jobs: General Ling: Asst/Assoc Professor or Lecturer, Grinnell College

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16:58:20: 21.3500, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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16:58:20: 21.3500, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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16:33:01: 21.3499, Jobs: Experimental Linguist: Assistant Professor, Rutgers U

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16:33:01: 21.3499, Jobs: Experimental Linguist: Assistant Professor, Rutgers U

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16:25:57: 21.3498, Jobs: English as a 2nd Language: Instructor, College of Southern Nevada

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16:25:57: 21.3498, Jobs: English as a 2nd Language: Instructor, College of Southern Nevada

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16:18:48: 21.3497, Qs: Japanese: Familial Terms in Non-Familial Contexts

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16:18:48: 21.3497, Qs: Japanese: Familial Terms in Non-Familial Contexts

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15:36:29: 21.3496, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acq/Australia

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15:36:29: 21.3496, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acq/Australia

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15:11:17: 21.3495, Review: Phonetics, Phonology: Jones (2009/1967)

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15:11:17: 21.3495, Review: Phonetics, Phonology: Jones (2009/1967)

Inttranews - Daily News Site for Linguists

08:28:12: Canada: RFP for Translation Technologies Information Compendium
Ottawa, Canada (Tenders): The Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) is requesting proposals from qualified organizations (Suppliers/Partners) to provide a Translation Technologies Information Compendium (TTIC) that could assist language professionals (translators, terminologists, jurilinguists, editors, proofreaders, technical writers, etc.) in their professional undertakings. For more information, please visit: www.merx.com/English/Supplier_menu.asp?WCE=Show&TAB;=3&PORTAL;=MERX&State;=7&id;=PR203506&HID;=&src;=nm&searchtype;=&hcode;=v2t1EDTBaJKMxPyhiPpJSg%3d%3d
07:38:40: First International Conference on Fictional Translators in Literature and Film (15-17 September 2011)
Vienna, Austria (St Jerome): The last few years have seen an upsurge in films and literary texts in which translators or the act of translating have a central role. One reason for this development may be that translators serve as a perfect screen for the projection of social and cultural anxieties associated with various aspects of globalization, i.e. migration, cultural hybridity, mobility, multilingualism, etc. For more information, please visit: transfiction.univie.ac.at
07:37:03: United States - Top of the Rockies, CO Professional Services needed for Project Site Master Plan Development and other products/services Period of Performance NLT 31 Dec 2012
Colorado, USA (Tenders): Utilizing and updating existing plans will provide guidance for enhancing intrinsic qualities, coordinating the design and installment of facilities, and providing quality interpretation at all TOR sites and, in particular, at Independence Pass and Independence National Historic Town site. For more information, please visit: www.dgmarket.com/tenders/np-notice.do~5460783
07:36:40: B-Brussels: funded group pension plan and life insurance scheme for conference interpreting agents (ACIs)
Brussels, Belgium (Tenders): The subject of the contract is to provide pension/life insurance to conference interpreting agents (ACIs) who have not nominated their pension provider. The company to whom the contract will be awarded will become 'the default pension provider' responsible for managing the ACIs' individual accounts and all the contributions paid in. For more information, please visit: www.dgmarket.com/tenders/np-notice.do~5536813
07:36:17: Australia - Recording and Transcription Services
Melbourne, Australia (Tenders): The Department of Defence has a requirement for the supply of recording and transcription services in areas including the Military Justice system and proceedings under the Defence (Inquiry) Regulations 1985. For more information, please visit: www.dgmarket.com/tenders/np-notice.do~5539537
07:35:59: Sri Lanka: RFP for Managing & Implementing the Production of Short Films with English-language subtitling
Colombo, Sri Lanka (Tenders): The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is seeking an institution offering skills and experience in developing and managing multimedia for a partnership focusing on youth participation and generating multimedia content. […] The films are produced in the appropriate local languages and all films have English-language subtitling. For more information, please visit: www.dgmarket.com/tenders/np-notice.do~5536407
07:35:40: Oregon: Audio/ Visual Kiosk content update and replacement, for the Lewis and Clark NHP visitor services, including captioning
Oregon, USA (Tenders): The National Park Service has a requirement for a single contractor to replace outdated audio visual kiosk content with two minute videos on the subject of Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Clatsop People and park resources. All videos will have descriptive narrative for seeing impaired and captioned for the hearing impaired. For more information, please visit: www.dgmarket.com/tenders/np-notice.do~5473617
07:35:17: Contract Awards
France - Contract Award - F-Lille: translation services www.dgmarket.com/tenders/np-notice.do~5537412 Bulgaria - Contract Award - BG-Sofia: support to the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria for organising public events www.dgmarket.com/tenders/np-notice.do~5536812

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04:47:35: 21.3494, Books: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Bousfield

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04:47:35: 21.3494, Books: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Bousfield

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04:39:39: 21.3493, Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Humez, Humez, Flynn

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04:39:39: 21.3493, Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Humez, Humez, Flynn

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04:28:26: 21.3492, Books: Lexicography: Gordón Peral (Ed)

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04:28:26: 21.3492, Books: Lexicography: Gordón Peral (Ed)

2010-09-01

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20:50:51: 21.3491, Review: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

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20:50:51: 21.3491, Review: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

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17:55:15: 21.3490, Qs: Seeking Recent Language and Gender Research

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17:55:15: 21.3490, Qs: Seeking Recent Language and Gender Research

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16:57:58: 21.3489, Jobs: Comp Sci, Electrical Engineering: Post Doc, SRI International

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16:57:58: 21.3489, Jobs: Comp Sci, Electrical Engineering: Post Doc, SRI International

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15:51:39: 21.3488, Calls: General Ling/USA

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15:51:39: 21.3488, Calls: General Ling/USA

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15:49:59: 21.3487, Calls: Morphology, Typology/Austria

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15:49:59: 21.3487, Calls: Morphology, Typology/Austria

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03:56:42: 21.3486, Jobs: Applied Ling: Acquisitions Editor/Linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton

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03:56:42: 21.3486, Jobs: Applied Ling: Acquisitions Editor/Linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton

2010-08-31

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18:48:27: 21.3485, Qs: Web Study on Problem Solving

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18:48:27: 21.3485, Qs: Web Study on Problem Solving

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18:32:49: 21.3484, FYI: VLC Free Online: 500+ Languages with Audio

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18:32:49: 21.3484, FYI: VLC Free Online: 500+ Languages with Audio

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17:02:35: 21.3483, Jobs: Traitement Automatique Multilingue: Prof, ETI/U of Geneva

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17:02:35: 21.3483, Jobs: Traitement Automatique Multilingue: Prof, ETI/U of Geneva

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16:54:14: 21.3482, Jobs: English; Applied Ling; Historical Ling: Asst Prof, The U of Akron

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16:54:14: 21.3482, Jobs: English; Applied Ling; Historical Ling: Asst Prof, The U of Akron

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16:48:27: 21.3481, Jobs: Psycholing: Post Doc, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics

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16:48:27: 21.3481, Jobs: Psycholing: Post Doc, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics

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16:28:54: 21.3480, Jobs: Lecturer in Spanish: Emory University

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16:28:54: 21.3480, Jobs: Lecturer in Spanish: Emory University

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16:24:48: 21.3479, Confs: English, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics/UK

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16:24:48: 21.3479, Confs: English, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics/UK

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16:23:27: 21.3478, Confs: Syntax, Pragmatics, Semantics/UK

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16:23:27: 21.3478, Confs: Syntax, Pragmatics, Semantics/UK

16:20:56: 21.3477, Confs: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition/UK

16:19:07: 21.3476, Confs: Syntax/Belgium

16:12:13: 21.3475, Confs: Typology, Socioling, Historical Ling/Germany

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15:59:09: 21.3474, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling/India

15:57:59: 21.3473, Calls: Historical Ling/Japan

15:56:17: 21.3472, Calls: Lang Acq, Socioling/Germany

15:52:54: 21.3471, Calls: Historical Ling, Syntax, Pragmatics, Germanic, Slavic/Germany

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05:02:34: 21.3470, FYI: Free Web Workshops on Speech Analysis & Synthesis

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04:37:11: 21.3469, Disc: Medium of Instruction for Creole Languages

2010-08-30

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19:30:37: 21.3468, Books: History of Linguistics: Wildgen

19:29:19: 21.3467, Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Stalder

19:20:19: 21.3466, Books: Applied Linguistics/Phonology: Abecassis, Ledegen

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18:27:39: 21.3465, Review: Ling. Theories; Phonetics; Phonology: Boersma & Hamann (2009)

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18:05:53: 21.3464, TOC: Language in Society 39/4 (2010)

18:04:57: 21.3463, TOC: Language Teaching 43/4 (2010)

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18:02:27: 21.3462, Calls: Historical Ling/Socioling/ Typology/ Language Dynamics and Change

18:00:49: 21.3461, Calls: App Ling/Gen Ling/ Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics

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16:28:00: 21.3460, Confs: Dutch, Syntax, Historical Ling/Belgium

16:24:42: 21.3459, Confs: Philosophy of Lang/France

16:22:11: 21.3458, Confs: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Brazil

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16:17:06: 21.3457, TOC: Communications: The European Journal of Communicat... 35/3 (2010)

16:15:25: 21.3456, TOC: Linguistics 48/5 (2010)

16:14:23: 21.3455, TOC: Language, Interaction and Acquisition 1/1 (2010)

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15:40:08: 21.3454, Calls: Semantics/Netherlands

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05:09:28: 21.3453, FYI: New: Multilingualism and Diversity Management

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04:27:38: 21.3452, Review: General Linguistics: Akmajian et al. (2010)

2010-08-29

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17:47:52: 21.3451, Calls: Philosophy of Lang/France

17:46:50: 21.3450, Calls: Syntax/Netherlands

17:39:35: 21.3449, Calls: Semantics/India

17:34:28: 21.3448, Calls: Slavic Langs, General Ling/USA

17:33:19: 21.3447, Calls: General Ling/Canada

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05:47:34: 21.3446, Books: Cognitive Science/Syntax: Langacker

05:45:53: 21.3445, Books: Historical Linguistics/Semantics: Redzich

05:44:19: 21.3444, Books: Computational Linguistics: Nie, Hirst (Ed)

The LINGUIST List: Diss

04:31:13: 21.3443, Diss: On the Compositional Nature of Stativity

2010-08-28

The LINGUIST List: Calls

18:42:41: 21.3442, Calls: Historical Ling, Typology/Japan

18:38:49: 21.3441, Calls: Pragmatics/United Kingdom

18:36:13: 21.3440, Calls: Disc Analysis, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics/United Kingdom

18:32:20: 21.3439, Calls: Comp Ling, Arabic/Morocco

02:22:22: 21.3438, Calls: Applied Ling, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Spanish/Germany

02:17:23: 21.3437, Calls: General Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, English/USA

2010-08-27

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21:12:52: 21.3434, Jobs: Phonetics & Phonology: Asst Prof, California State U, Fullerton

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18:44:24: 21.3433, Confs: Socioling, Lang Documentation, Applied Ling/USA

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06:00:00: 21.3432, Jobs: Cog Science; Discourse; Media/Film: PhD Position, U of Amsterdam

06:00:00: 21.3435, Jobs: Applied Ling; General Ling: Modern Langs: Assoc Prof, Nanyang Tech

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04:38:46: 21.3431, Review: Historical Linguistics; Morphology: Barðdal and Chelliah (2009)

00:02:07: 21.3430, Review: Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics: Norrick & Chiaro (2009)

2010-08-26

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20:35:35: 21.3429, Jobs: Hindi/Urdu: Lecturer, University of California, Davis

20:10:55: 21.3428, Jobs: English & Applied Linguistics: Lecturer, The U of Nottingham

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18:44:57: 21.3427, FYI: Call for Contributions for HIV/AIDS Discourse Book

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18:42:34: 21.3426, Disc: Morpho-syntax of wh-questions in Arabic

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18:39:27: 21.3425, Books: Sociolinguistics/Translation: Giné, Hibbs (Eds)

18:32:44: 21.3424, Books: Discourse Analysis/Semantics: Clift, Holt (Ed)

The LINGUIST List: TOC

16:24:22: 21.3423, TOC: Cognitive Linguistics 21/3 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Calls

15:56:39: 21.3422, Calls: Translation, Turkish/Turkey

15:48:01: 21.3421, Calls: Applied Ling, General Ling/Australia

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15:23:41: 21.3420, Confs: English, Applied Ling/Indonesia

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15:18:31: 21.3419, Jobs: English Language & Ling: Lecturer/PhD/PostDoc, U of Osnabrück

The LINGUIST List: Disc

03:06:57: 21.3418, Disc: Obituary: Michael K. Brame

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01:21:41: 21.3417, FYI: New Benjamins Journal: Language and Dialogue

2010-08-25

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22:57:42: 21.3416, Qs: Online-Befragung: Akzeptabilität von deutschen Sätzen

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22:22:50: 21.3415, Jobs: General Ling: Assistant Professor, U of North Carolina Wilmington

22:04:27: 21.3414, Jobs: Typology; Lang Evolution: Post Doc, MPI for Developmental Biology

The LINGUIST List: Review

21:06:08: 21.3413, Review: Anthro. Ling.; Cognitive Science; Psycholing.: Fitch (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Diss

20:25:30: 21.3412, Diss: Semantics: Shimelman: 'Questions and Quantifiers'

The LINGUIST List: TOC

17:33:41: 21.3411, TOC: Language & Intercultural Communication 10/3 (2010)

17:31:58: 21.3410, TOC: Intercultural Pragmatics 7/3 (2010)

17:30:11: 21.3409, TOC: Semiotica 2010/181 (2010)

17:29:18: 21.3408, TOC: Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development 31/4 (2010)

17:28:12: 21.3407, TOC: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache deu... 132/1 (2010)

17:26:09: 21.3406, TOC: Humor 23/3 (2010)

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16:38:12: 21.3405, Support: Cognitive Science, Syntax: PhD Student, MPI, Germany

The LINGUIST List: Confs

16:16:20: 21.3404, Confs: Chavacano, Indo-Portugese, Macanese, General Ling/Macau

The LINGUIST List: Calls

15:55:05: 21.3403, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Media Ling/USA

15:51:31: 21.3402, Calls: General Ling/USA

15:41:36: 21.3401, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling/Switzerland

The LINGUIST List: Books

05:19:16: 21.3400, Books: Historical Linguistics: Kytö, Scahill, Tanabe (Eds)

05:16:03: 21.3399, Books: Ling Theories/Syntax: Camacho, Gutiérrez-Bravo, Sánchez (Eds)

2010-08-24

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19:56:07: 21.3398, Confs: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Anthroling/USA

19:47:29: 21.3397, Confs: Psycholing/USA

19:45:53: 21.3396, Confs: Applied Ling/Taiwan

The LINGUIST List: TOC

17:58:37: 21.3395, TOC: Journal of Pragmatics 42/11 (2010)

17:56:11: 21.3394, TOC: Babel 56/2 (2010)

17:53:26: 21.3393, TOC: Studies in Language 34/2 (2010)

17:51:54: 21.3392, TOC: Pragmatics & Cognition 18/2 (2010)

17:50:55: 21.3391, TOC: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15/3 (2010)

17:49:27: 21.3390, TOC: Linguistic Variation Yearbook 9 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Diss

17:21:44: 21.3389, Diss: Lang Acq: Hacohen: 'On the Acquisition of Hebrew ...'

The LINGUIST List: Sum

17:17:11: 21.3388, Sum: Resource Search: History of American English

The LINGUIST List: Review

16:48:38: 21.3387, Review: Applied Linguistics; Psycholinguistics

The LINGUIST List: Calls

16:01:51: 21.3386, Calls: Applied Ling, General Ling, Lang Doc/USA

The LINGUIST List: Review

15:45:03: 21.3385, Review: Sociolinguistics: Norde et al. (2010)

The LINGUIST List: FYI

03:13:11: 21.3384, FYI: Call for Book Chapters for 'Computer Games'

2010-08-23

The LINGUIST List: Calls

20:01:24: 21.3383, Calls: App Ling/Gen Ling/Psycholing/ Journal of Modern Languages (Jrnl)

The LINGUIST List: Confs

17:43:49: 21.3382, Confs: Romance, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Switzerland

The LINGUIST List: TOC

17:03:48: 21.3381, TOC: Foreign Language Annals 43/3 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Confs

16:35:37: 21.3380, Confs: Germanic, General Ling/USA

The LINGUIST List: Calls

16:14:00: 21.3379, Calls: Ling & Lit, Translation/Bahrain

The LINGUIST List: Confs

15:59:10: 21.3376, Confs: General Ling/Brazil

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

15:55:52: 21.3375, Jobs: Experimental Linguistics: Rank Open, Hanyang University

15:52:23: 21.3374, Jobs: Japanese Studies or Comparative Studies: Assoc Prof, Nagoya U

The LINGUIST List: Diss

03:19:49: 21.3373, Diss: Syntax: Ghaniabadi: 'The Empty Noun Construction in Persian'

The LINGUIST List: Books

01:31:54: 21.3371, Books: Discourse Analysis/Socioling: Dausendschön-Gay et al (Eds)

01:21:39: 21.3370, Books: Computational Linguistics: Tanaka-Ishii

01:12:26: 21.3369, Books: Applied Ling/Discourse Analysis/Sociling: Rojo

2010-08-22

The LINGUIST List: Confs

20:26:04: 21.3368, Confs: Comp Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics/Germany

20:22:09: 21.3367, Confs: Translation/India

19:33:44: 21.3366, Confs: Pragmatics, Socioling, Discourse Analysis/Japan

The LINGUIST List: Review

19:15:03: 21.3365, Review: Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics: Konopka & Strecker (2009)

13:18:58: 21.3364, Review: Pragmatics: Verschueren & Östman (2009)

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

06:00:00: 21.3372, Jobs: French & General Linguistics: Consultant, Pearson

2010-08-20

The LINGUIST List: FYI

22:23:41: 21.3359, FYI: Psychological Experiment Software Questionnaire

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

20:39:46: 21.3357, Jobs: First-year Writing: Lecturer, Georgia Southern University

The LINGUIST List: Books

18:55:53: 21.3355, Books: Sociolinguistics/Typology: Senft

18:53:11: 21.3354, Books: Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis: Owtram

18:51:35: 21.3353, Books: Lang Acquisition/Psycholing/Socioling: Contesse et al (Eds)

18:49:33: 21.3352, Books: Phonology/Sociolinguistics: Abecassis, Ledegen (Eds)

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

06:00:00: 21.3351, Jobs: Chinese Ling (Syntax/Syntax-Semantics): Asst Prof, Ohio State U

Georgetown University

05:00:00: U.S. Education Dept. Awards Georgetown Over $5M
The Walsh School of Foreign Service has received a Department of Education grant to strengthen programs in three of its academic centers.

2010-08-19

The LINGUIST List: TOC

22:36:06: 21.3350, TOC: Constructions and Frames 2/1 (2010)

22:34:49: 21.3349, TOC: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25/2 (2010)

22:33:53: 21.3348, TOC: The Modern Language Journal 94/3 (2010)

22:32:38: 21.3347, TOC: Interpreting 12/2 (2010)

22:30:25: 21.3346, TOC: Written Language and Literacy 13/2 (2010)

22:29:08: 21.3345, TOC: EUROSLA Yearbook 10 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Confs

19:44:13: 21.3344, Confs: Japanese, English, Lang Acquisition, Syntax, Morphology/Canada

19:40:53: 21.3343, Confs: Ling Theories, Syntax, Semantics, Psycholing/Israel

The LINGUIST List: Diss

19:34:50: 21.3342, Diss: Applied Ling/Socioling: Beinhoff: 'Attitudes of Non-Native ...'

The LINGUIST List: FYI

16:04:19: 21.3337, FYI: NSF Requests Advice on Priorities For the Future

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

07:53:54: 21.3336, Jobs: Various Langs, Gen Ling & Translation: Translator, IBM

The LINGUIST List: Books

03:40:00: 21.3335, Books: Semantics/Sociolinguistics: Taub

03:35:29: 21.3334, Books: Sociolinguistics: Potowski (Ed)

03:32:31: 21.3333, Books: Language Documentation: Kruspe

03:30:14: 21.3332, Books: Language Documentation: Robinson

03:27:44: 21.3331, Books: Language Documentation/Syntax: Kirk

03:24:20: 21.3330, Books: Applied Linguistics: Willis

2010-08-18

The LINGUIST List: Qs

21:38:40: 21.3329, Qs: Resource Search: History of American English

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

15:40:23: 21.3323, Jobs: Syntax: Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University

2010-08-17

The LINGUIST List: TOC

22:00:11: 21.3322, TOC: Journal of Germanic Linguistics 22/3 (2010)

21:59:01: 21.3321, TOC: Studies in Second Language Acquisition 32/3 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

17:57:00: 21.3319, Jobs: Phonology: Assistant Professor, U of Massachusetts Amherst

The LINGUIST List: Review

16:15:32: 21.3318, Review: Text/Corpus Linguistics, morphology, syntax: Gries et al. (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Books

15:33:56: 21.3316, Books: Language Documentation/Syntax: Carrell

15:31:41: 21.3315, Books: Sociolinguistics/Historical Linguistics: Trask

15:28:58: 21.3314, Books: Applied Linguistics/Sociolinguistics: DePalma

15:23:21: 21.3313, Books: Neurolinguistics: Schnelle

2010-08-16

The LINGUIST List: Review

20:18:08: 21.3304, Review: General Ling: Ojo & Moshi (2009)

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

19:13:52: 21.3302, Jobs: Pragmatics; Semantics: Post Doc/Ph.D., U of Konstanz

The LINGUIST List: Review

17:09:22: 21.3297, Review: Discourse Analysis: van Eemeren (2009)

The LINGUIST List: FYI

16:55:17: 21.3296, FYI: All-New SpecGram (Mid-August 2010) Online

The LINGUIST List: Qs

02:44:10: 21.3295, Qs: Survey for American and Canadian Native English Speakers

2010-08-14

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

21:51:12: 21.3284, Jobs: Translation: NCS Language Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

21:43:45: 21.3282, Jobs: Corpus Linguistics: Professor / W3, University Kiel

21:41:49: 21.3281, Jobs: Ling & Literature: Chair of Department, Illinois State University

The LINGUIST List: Review

14:32:06: 21.3272, Review: Forensic Linguistics; Applied Ling.: Coulthard & Johnson (2010)

13:52:13: 21.3271, Review: General Linguistics: Yule (2010)

2010-08-13

The LINGUIST List: Qs

21:51:22: 21.3270, Qs: Narrative Structure of Business Documents

The LINGUIST List: FYI

16:40:11: 21.3260, FYI: Call for Papers for New Journal: EntreHojas

The LINGUIST List: Disc

16:11:48: 21.3259, Disc: Hindi Verb Classification

2010-08-12

The LINGUIST List: Confs

18:21:41: 21.3258, Confs: Applied Ling, Socioling/USA

2010-08-11

The LINGUIST List: Confs

22:12:20: 21.3245, Confs: Ling Theories, Neuroling/China

The LINGUIST List: Qs

20:48:01: 21.3244, Qs: Survey on Online Dictionaries

The LINGUIST List: Disc

19:58:46: 21.3243, Disc: Ask and Answer Questions on CL/NLP

The LINGUIST List: Diss

18:29:12: 21.3242, Diss: Phonology: Martinez: 'Sources of Non-Conformity in Phonology ...'

The LINGUIST List: TOC

16:15:09: 21.3238, TOC: Language and Linguistics 11/3 (2010)

2010-08-10

The LINGUIST List: All

19:41:19: 21.3229, All: Obituary: Professor Werner Winter (1923 – 2010)

The LINGUIST List: Diss

18:24:06: 21.3228, Diss: Lang Acq/Semantics: Konecny: 'Kollokationen: Versuch einer ...'

The LINGUIST List: Confs

17:08:27: 21.3227, Confs: English, Applied Ling/Cambodia

The LINGUIST List: Review

05:19:40: 21.3223, Review: Applied Linguistics: Denham and Lobeck (2010)

2010-08-09

The LINGUIST List: Review

22:07:12: 21.3222, Review: Forensic Linguistics; Sociolinguistics: Eades (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Diss

20:55:59: 21.3221, Diss: Psycholing: Siyanova: 'On-line Processing of Multi-word ...'

The LINGUIST List: Confs

18:32:27: 21.3220, Confs: Translation/France

The LINGUIST List: TOC

15:56:13: 21.3219, TOC: Lingua 120/10 (2010)

15:55:14: 21.3218, TOC: Writing Systems Research 2/1 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Qs

15:24:23: 21.3213, Qs: Phonology - Morphology Interaction

Applied Linguistics - current issue

14:16:28: An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research

This research creates an empirically derived, pedagogically useful list of formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing, comparable with the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000), called the Academic Formulas List (AFL). The AFL includes formulaic sequences identified as (i) frequent recurrent patterns in corpora of written and spoken language, which (ii) occur significantly more often in academic than in non-academic discourse, and (iii) inhabit a wide range of academic genres. It separately lists formulas that are common in academic spoken and academic written language, as well as those that are special to academic written language alone and academic spoken language alone. The AFL further prioritizes these formulas using an empirically derived measure of utility that is educationally and psychologically valid and operationalizable with corpus linguistic metrics. The formulas are classified according to their predominant pragmatic function for descriptive analysis and in order to marshal the AFL for inclusion in English for Academic Purposes instruction.


14:16:28: The Role of Phonological Decoding in Second Language Word-Meaning Inference

Two hypotheses were tested: Similarity between first language (L1) and second language (L2) orthographic processing facilitates L2-decoding efficiency; and L2-decoding efficiency contributes to word-meaning inference to different degrees among L2 learners with diverse L1 orthographic backgrounds. The participants were college-level English as a second language (ESL) learners with either alphabetic or logographic L1 backgrounds. Response speed and accuracy of English real- and pseudoword naming served as the decoding efficiency measure. The participants read three passages that contained pseudowords and inferred their meanings. Results showed that (i) alphabetic, as opposed to logographic, L1 background was associated with better decoding; (ii) the groups did not differ in meaning-inference performance; and (iii) the relationship between decoding efficiency and meaning-inference was stronger in the alphabetic group.


14:16:28: Dynamic Patterns in Development of Accuracy and Complexity: A Longitudinal Case Study in the Acquisition of Finnish

Within a Dynamic System Theory (DST) approach, it is assumed that language is in a constant flux, but that differences in the degree of variability can give insight into the developmental process. This longitudinal case study focuses on intra-individual variability in accuracy rates and complexity measures in Finnish learner language. The study illustrates the use of several useful DST methods and techniques such as min–max graphs and regression analyses to gauge whether different degrees of variability are meaningful, and Monte Carlo analyses to test for significance. Error rates were found to decrease rapidly in most cases except in four notoriously troublesome ones. Both word complexity and sentence complexity, and word complexity and NP complexity develop simultaneously and can be seen as connected growers, but NP complexity and sentence complexity alternate in developing and can be considered competitors. The study clearly shows that the interaction of different complexity measures change over time. Quite surprisingly, no meaningful relationship was found between accuracy and complexity measures over time.


14:16:28: Investigating L2 Performance in Text Chat

This study examines the linguistic complexity and lexical diversity of both overt and covert L2 output produced during synchronous written computer-mediated communication, also referred to as chat. Video enhanced chatscripts produced by university learners of German (N = 23) engaged in dyadic task-based chat interaction were coded and analyzed for syntactic complexity (ratio of clauses to c-units), productive use of grammatical gender, and lexical diversity (Index of Guiraud). Results show that chat output that exhibits evidence of online planning in the form of post-production monitoring displays significantly greater linguistic complexity and lexical diversity than chat output that does not exhibit similar evidence of online planning. These findings suggest that L2 learners do appear to use the increased online (i.e. moment-by-moment) planning time afforded by chat to engage in careful production and monitoring.


14:16:28: Making it Real: Authenticity, Process and Pedagogy

Authenticity has been a part of the intellectual resources of language teaching since the 1890s but its precise meaning and implications are contested. This commentary argues for a view of authenticity which recognizes the limits of the concept as a guide for pedagogic practice and acknowledges the fact that texts are processes rather than products. First, authenticity may help to decide what texts not to use in class but provides no guidance about which authentic texts are, for example, motivating. Secondly, the term authenticity is misleading because it leads us to conceptualize authenticity as the bringing of a text from a communicative event into a classroom. Texts are the result of an interaction between what we might term a proto-text, sound waves, or marks on paper or screen, and a language user. The authenticity of a text in the classroom depends on the similarity between the way it is used in the classroom and the way it was used in its original communicative context.


14:16:28: Barbara Kopke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer, and Susan Dostert (eds): Language Attrition: Theoretical Perspectives.

14:16:28: Zoltan Dornyei: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.

14:16:28: V. Samuda and M. Bygate: Tasks in Second Language Learning.

14:16:28: H. Spencer-Oatey and P. Franklin: Intercultural Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Intercultural Communication.

14:16:28: Notes on Contributors

Applied Linguistics - recent issues

14:16:28: An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research

This research creates an empirically derived, pedagogically useful list of formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing, comparable with the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000), called the Academic Formulas List (AFL). The AFL includes formulaic sequences identified as (i) frequent recurrent patterns in corpora of written and spoken language, which (ii) occur significantly more often in academic than in non-academic discourse, and (iii) inhabit a wide range of academic genres. It separately lists formulas that are common in academic spoken and academic written language, as well as those that are special to academic written language alone and academic spoken language alone. The AFL further prioritizes these formulas using an empirically derived measure of utility that is educationally and psychologically valid and operationalizable with corpus linguistic metrics. The formulas are classified according to their predominant pragmatic function for descriptive analysis and in order to marshal the AFL for inclusion in English for Academic Purposes instruction.


14:16:28: The Role of Phonological Decoding in Second Language Word-Meaning Inference

Two hypotheses were tested: Similarity between first language (L1) and second language (L2) orthographic processing facilitates L2-decoding efficiency; and L2-decoding efficiency contributes to word-meaning inference to different degrees among L2 learners with diverse L1 orthographic backgrounds. The participants were college-level English as a second language (ESL) learners with either alphabetic or logographic L1 backgrounds. Response speed and accuracy of English real- and pseudoword naming served as the decoding efficiency measure. The participants read three passages that contained pseudowords and inferred their meanings. Results showed that (i) alphabetic, as opposed to logographic, L1 background was associated with better decoding; (ii) the groups did not differ in meaning-inference performance; and (iii) the relationship between decoding efficiency and meaning-inference was stronger in the alphabetic group.


14:16:28: Dynamic Patterns in Development of Accuracy and Complexity: A Longitudinal Case Study in the Acquisition of Finnish

Within a Dynamic System Theory (DST) approach, it is assumed that language is in a constant flux, but that differences in the degree of variability can give insight into the developmental process. This longitudinal case study focuses on intra-individual variability in accuracy rates and complexity measures in Finnish learner language. The study illustrates the use of several useful DST methods and techniques such as min–max graphs and regression analyses to gauge whether different degrees of variability are meaningful, and Monte Carlo analyses to test for significance. Error rates were found to decrease rapidly in most cases except in four notoriously troublesome ones. Both word complexity and sentence complexity, and word complexity and NP complexity develop simultaneously and can be seen as connected growers, but NP complexity and sentence complexity alternate in developing and can be considered competitors. The study clearly shows that the interaction of different complexity measures change over time. Quite surprisingly, no meaningful relationship was found between accuracy and complexity measures over time.


14:16:28: Investigating L2 Performance in Text Chat

This study examines the linguistic complexity and lexical diversity of both overt and covert L2 output produced during synchronous written computer-mediated communication, also referred to as chat. Video enhanced chatscripts produced by university learners of German (N = 23) engaged in dyadic task-based chat interaction were coded and analyzed for syntactic complexity (ratio of clauses to c-units), productive use of grammatical gender, and lexical diversity (Index of Guiraud). Results show that chat output that exhibits evidence of online planning in the form of post-production monitoring displays significantly greater linguistic complexity and lexical diversity than chat output that does not exhibit similar evidence of online planning. These findings suggest that L2 learners do appear to use the increased online (i.e. moment-by-moment) planning time afforded by chat to engage in careful production and monitoring.


14:16:28: Making it Real: Authenticity, Process and Pedagogy

Authenticity has been a part of the intellectual resources of language teaching since the 1890s but its precise meaning and implications are contested. This commentary argues for a view of authenticity which recognizes the limits of the concept as a guide for pedagogic practice and acknowledges the fact that texts are processes rather than products. First, authenticity may help to decide what texts not to use in class but provides no guidance about which authentic texts are, for example, motivating. Secondly, the term authenticity is misleading because it leads us to conceptualize authenticity as the bringing of a text from a communicative event into a classroom. Texts are the result of an interaction between what we might term a proto-text, sound waves, or marks on paper or screen, and a language user. The authenticity of a text in the classroom depends on the similarity between the way it is used in the classroom and the way it was used in its original communicative context.


14:16:28: Barbara Kopke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer, and Susan Dostert (eds): Language Attrition: Theoretical Perspectives.

14:16:28: Zoltan Dornyei: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.

14:16:28: V. Samuda and M. Bygate: Tasks in Second Language Learning.

14:16:28: H. Spencer-Oatey and P. Franklin: Intercultural Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Intercultural Communication.

14:16:28: Notes on Contributors

2010-08-08

The LINGUIST List: Confs

18:09:05: 21.3208, Confs: Anthro Ling, Socioling/USA

The LINGUIST List: Review

14:20:38: 21.3207, Review: Phonetics; Psycholinguistics: Hardcastle et al. (2010)

2010-08-07

The LINGUIST List: Review

17:43:54: 21.3202, Review: Phonology; Sociolinguistics: Hoffman (2010)

2010-08-06

The LINGUIST List: Review

23:17:58: 21.3197, Review: Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics: Wodak et al. (2009)

The LINGUIST List: FYI

21:02:33: 21.3196, FYI: Reviews of Two-Channel Field Mixers

20:45:37: 21.3195, FYI: Patras Working Papers in Linguistics

The LINGUIST List: Diss

17:03:01: 21.3193, Diss: Disc Analysis: Lin: 'The Prosody of Formulaic Language'

2010-08-05

The LINGUIST List: Confs

20:51:46: 21.3186, Confs: Computational Ling, Lang Documentation, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

The LINGUIST List: Review

17:31:03: 21.3180, Review: Syntax; General Linguistics: Givón and Shibatani (2009)

04:56:17: 21.3177, Review: Syntax; Typology: Schmidtke-Bode (2009)

2010-08-04

The LINGUIST List: FYI

20:54:10: 21.3176, FYI: Best Paper Award 2009 - Journal of Second Language Writing

20:49:08: 21.3175, FYI: Annual Horowitz Award Winner 2009

The LINGUIST List: Diss

20:15:14: 21.3174, Diss: Historical Ling: Balakrishnan: 'Phonological Reconstruction ...'

The LINGUIST List: FYI

20:12:26: 21.3173, FYI: September 2010 Book Notice List Available

19:47:56: 21.3172, FYI: Review for Sanken COS-11D Lavalier Microphone

The LINGUIST List: Diss

19:28:17: 21.3171, Diss: Phonetics/Phonology/Lang Acq: Lintfert: 'Phonetic and ...'

The LINGUIST List: Review

19:02:52: 21.3170, Review: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

The LINGUIST List: Confs

16:53:34: 21.3163, Confs: Computational Ling, Applied Ling/Ukraine

2010-08-03

The LINGUIST List: Diss

19:46:12: 21.3159, Diss: Neuroling: Fyndanis: 'Functional Categories in Greek ...'

19:28:36: 21.3158, Diss: Historical Ling/Phonology: Menz: 'Accent Type and Language ...'

The LINGUIST List: Review

13:50:59: 21.3150, Review: Genetic Classification: Sidwell (2009)

2010-08-02

The LINGUIST List: Review

21:15:51: 21.3149, Review: Cognitive Science: d'Errico and Hombert (2009)

The LINGUIST List: Diss

21:04:41: 21.3146, Diss: Phonology: Martinez: 'Phonology: Variation and exceptionality...'

The LINGUIST List: Review

19:11:50: 21.3145, Review: Philosophy of Language: Lepore and Smith (2006)

The LINGUIST List: All

17:25:57: 21.3144, All: Obituary: Hans den Besten

2010-08-01

The LINGUIST List: FYI

20:19:03: 21.3134, FYI: All-New SpecGram (August 2010) Online

2010-07-31

The LINGUIST List: Review

22:14:15: 21.3133, Review: Historical Linguistics; Lexicography: Durkin (2009)

00:36:07: 21.3125, Review: Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Baker (2010)

2010-07-29

The LINGUIST List: FYI

22:11:05: 21.3114, FYI: Survey for Speech Analysis Software Users

The LINGUIST List: Diss

21:13:06: 21.3112, Diss: Morphology/Phonology/Syntax: Kirchner: 'Minimal Reduplication'

2010-07-28

The LINGUIST List: Diss

21:47:27: 21.3101, Diss: General Ling/Ling & Literature: Versace: 'Due teorie ...'

The LINGUIST List: Qs

16:38:33: 21.3094, Qs: Online Psycholinguistic Experiment

2010-07-27

The LINGUIST List: Diss

18:20:04: 21.3087, Diss: Semantics: Tsouhlaris: 'Quantificational Modification: The ...'

The LINGUIST List: FYI

17:17:24: 21.3085, FYI: RCLT Workshop Podcast Availability

2010-07-26

The LINGUIST List: FYI

17:41:41: 21.3065, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Collected Volume on TA Development

Georgetown University

05:00:00: Georgetown Named As 'Great College to Work For'
Faculty teaching innovations and a balance of teaching, service and research help Georgetown nab a place on The Chronicle of Education's ?Great College to Work For'

2010-07-25

Georgetown University

05:00:00: Colleges Strive to Make Foreign Languages Relevant: USA Today

2010-07-24

The LINGUIST List: Review

05:12:14: 21.3055, Review: Language Acquisition: Labeau and Myles (2009)

2010-07-23

The LINGUIST List: FYI

20:00:40: 21.3049, FYI: Podcasts of Recent RCLT International Workshops Available

The LINGUIST List: Diss

17:21:31: 21.3047, Diss: Syntax: Steele: 'A Hubterranean View of Syntax: An analysis ...'

2010-07-22

The LINGUIST List: FYI

22:43:25: 21.3044, FYI: Rutgers Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 3

The LINGUIST List: Support

16:43:51: 21.3026, Support: English & Applied Ling, SLA: PhD Student, U of Cambridge, UK

2010-07-19

The LINGUIST List: Diss

22:22:46: 21.2980, Diss: Morphology/Syntax: Wagner: 'Interlanguage Morphology ...'

22:11:26: 21.2979, Diss: Lang Acq/Socioling: Davidiak: 'One? ¿Dos? Drei!: A study of ...'

17:31:56: 21.2977, Diss: Syntax: Coon: 'Complementation in Chol (Mayan): A Theory of ...'

17:19:23: 21.2976, Diss: Socioling: Haobam: 'Meiteilon-English Code Switching and ...'

The LINGUIST List: Qs

03:11:01: 21.2971, Qs: Pashto in Unicode

The LINGUIST List: FYI

01:17:23: 21.2970, FYI: IGALA Student Paper Contest

2010-07-18

The LINGUIST List: Disc

16:13:03: 21.2967, Disc: Refuting the Negative in Conversation/Discourse

2010-07-16

The LINGUIST List: FYI

23:00:03: 21.2958, FYI: New Association for Laboratory Phonology

16:44:39: 21.2942, FYI: Call for Participation: Multi-Word Expressions Conference

The LINGUIST List: Disc

15:30:11: 21.2941, Disc: Linguistic Particularities in the Yucatan

2010-07-15

The LINGUIST List: Qs

23:12:45: 21.2940, Qs: Online Platform for Speech Perception Tests

2010-07-14

The LINGUIST List: Diss

19:52:35: 21.2922, Diss: Morphology/Syntax: Nuger: 'Architecture of the Palauan Verbal...'

2010-07-13

The LINGUIST List: Support

19:47:56: 21.2897, Support: French & Discourse Analysis: PhD Student, U of Louvain, Belgium

2010-07-12

The LINGUIST List: FYI

16:04:51: 21.2881, FYI: Summer Institute in Aboriginal Language Revitalization

2010-07-10

The LINGUIST List: FYI

06:03:08: 21.2868, FYI: Summer Course in Neurolinguistics - Barcelona - Espagnol

04:55:12: 21.2867, FYI: Free Web Services for Text Mining and NLP Tools

2010-07-09

The LINGUIST List: FYI

22:27:11: 21.2866, FYI: Call for Particpation: Linguist Needed for Bravo TV Show

The LINGUIST List: Diss

20:37:07: 21.2862, Diss: Anthro Ling/Socioling: López: 'A lingua de camões com Iemanjá...'

The LINGUIST List: Support

15:52:08: 21.2854, Support: Computational Ling: PhD Student, Macquarie U, Sydney, Australia

2010-07-08

The LINGUIST List: Diss

18:52:09: 21.2844, Diss: Applied Ling/Lang Acq: Al-Thubaiti: 'Age Effects in a Minimal...'

The LINGUIST List: All

15:24:15: 21.2841, All: Obituary: Kjartan Ottosson

2010-07-07

The LINGUIST List: Diss

17:20:48: 21.2826, Diss: Comp Ling/Genetic Classification: Rigon: 'A Quantitative ...'

The LINGUIST List: Disc

14:46:37: 21.2821, Disc: On Comparative Inversions

2010-07-06

The LINGUIST List: Qs

16:12:43: 21.2812, Qs: Participants in James Sledd/NEH Funded Seminars

The LINGUIST List: Support

05:23:04: 21.2811, Support: Anthro Ling, Lang Documentation: PhD Student,La Trobe U,Australia

2010-07-03

The LINGUIST List: Diss

18:09:37: 21.2796, Diss: Morphology: Weiss: 'Das italienische Suffix -izza(re) und der...'

2010-07-02

The LINGUIST List: Qs

19:46:23: 21.2787, Qs: Discourse Analysis Textbooks with Movie and Sound Files

2010-07-01

The LINGUIST List: Support

23:23:37: 21.2777, Support: Forensic voice comparison: PhD Student, U. of New South Wales, AU

The LINGUIST List: Software

17:43:49: 21.2766, Software: Syntactica Software

2010-06-30

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22:59:35: 21.2764, Support: Comp Ling, Theoretical Ling: PhD Student, U. Stuttgart, Germany

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18:44:41: 21.2759, All: Obituary: Gösta Bruce

2010-06-28

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16:31:38: 21.2736, Qs: Automated Antecedent Constituency Tests

2010-06-26

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00:03:52: 21.2719, Sum: /f/ to /theta/ Sound Changes

2010-06-22

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20:17:25: 21.2681, Software: Sanskrit Input: Devawriter Pro

The LINGUIST List: Diss

13:57:14: 21.2670, Diss: Lang Acq/Phonology/Psycholing: Hatfield: 'Temporal Expectancy...'

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00:53:09: 21.2669, Support: Comp Ling, Psycholing: PhD Student, Saarland U., Germany

2010-06-21

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19:36:44: 21.2663, Qs: North American English Dialect Survey

2010-06-18

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18:19:35: 21.2643, Diss: Cog. Sci: Sharma: 'Conceptualization to Speak About Natural ...'

2010-06-17

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13:32:16: 21.2624, Diss: Lang Doc/Morphology/Syntax: Lanz: 'A Grammar of Iñupiaq ...'

2010-06-15

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20:49:42: 21.2604, Disc: Latin Etymology

2010-06-14

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23:05:52: 21.2594, Support: LSQ/ASL/LSF & Sign Lang Processing: PhD Student U. Québec, Canada

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16:57:18: 21.2584, Disc: Latin Etymology

2010-06-09

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15:54:44: 21.2544, Qs: Participate in CEDEL2: Spanish Learner Corpus

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15:51:36: 21.2543, Sum: Good Textbook for Introductory Phonology

2010-06-08

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18:46:38: 21.2532, Qs: Surveys: English as a Lingua Franca - Semantics and Politeness

17:07:29: 21.2531, Qs: Phonemic Alveo-Palatal and Palatal Fricatives

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02:59:08: 21.2526, Support: General Ling, Socioling: PhD Student, LMU, München, Germany

2010-06-07

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18:34:45: 21.2515, Qs: Spanish Lang Presidential and Electoral TV Debates

Georgetown University

05:00:00: Professorship to Bring German Scholar to College
The Max Kade Foundation has awarded Georgetown's German department with a 2011 spring visiting professorship from Birgit Dahlke of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

2010-06-02

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16:10:38: 21.2431, Qs: Negation in Hawai'ian

2010-06-01

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17:32:01: 21.2428, Sum: Bi/Multilingualism and Specific Genres of Writing

2010-05-29

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21:45:38: 21.2401, Qs: Survey: American English Native Speakers Needed

2010-05-27

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22:45:36: 21.2374, Software: CardWorld1 a small deep example of understanding

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15:56:28: 21.2364, Support: Anthro Ling, Language Documentation: PhD Student, James Cook U.

2010-05-25

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15:51:05: 21.2337, Qs: Good Textbook for Introductory Phonology

2010-05-24

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21:32:12: 21.2335, Software: En una palabra, Puebla, México: A CD-ROM for Exploring Culture...

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17:49:43: 21.2328, Qs: Bi/Multilingualism and Specific Genres of Writing

Applied Linguistics - recent issues

07:45:22: Notes on Contributors

07:45:21: 'Tails' of Linguistic Survival

Given the relatively short history of computerized corpora of spoken language, it is not surprising that few diachronic studies have been done on the grammatical features recently highlighted by the analysis of such corpora. This article, however, does take a diachronic perspective on one such feature: the syntactic feature of ‘tails’ (Dik 1978). The use of tails is analyzed in terms of form, frequency, and function in a 50,000 word corpus of informal conversations which took place in the North of England between 1937 and 1940. This analysis shows that tails were a systematic and quite frequent feature of spoken English at that time. It also shows that there are marked similarities in terms of form and function between tails in this small corpus and those in more widely based contemporary corpora. The article argues that the durability of tails may lie in the fact that the feature has both an important psycholinguistic function and important affective functions and concludes that this kind of diachronic research is of great potential value for spoken language research.


07:45:21: Speaking Correctly: Error Correction as a Language Socialization Practice in a Ukrainian Classroom

This study uses a language socialization approach to explore the role of Ukrainian language instruction in the revitalization of Ukrainian as the national language. Based on 10 months ethnographic observation and videotaping of classroom interaction in two fifth-grade Ukrainian language and literature classrooms, it focuses on corrective feedback targeting children's use of Russian forms and considers how these practices are shaped by the imperatives of Ukrainian language revitalization and language ideologies that valorize ‘pure language’ as the sole legitimate variety of Ukrainian. The analysis reveals how corrective feedback is socializing children into speaking pure language and into dominant Ukrainian language ideologies that proscribe language mixing as a violation of the natural boundaries between languages, thus preserving a distinct Ukrainian language as an emblem of a distinct Ukrainian nation.


07:45:21: Improving Data Analysis in Second Language Acquisition by Utilizing Modern Developments in Applied Statistics

In this article we introduce language acquisition researchers to two broad areas of applied statistics that can improve the way data are analyzed. First we argue that visual summaries of information are as vital as numerical ones, and suggest ways to improve them. Specifically, we recommend choosing boxplots over barplots and adding locally weighted smooth lines (Loess lines) to scatterplots. Second, we introduce the reader to robust statistics, a tool that can provide a way to use the power of parametric statistics without having to rely on the assumption of a normal distribution; robust statistics incorporate advances made in applied statistics in the last 40 years. Such types of analyses have only recently become feasible for the non-statistician practitioner as the methods are computer-intensive. We acquaint the reader with trimmed means and bootstrapping, procedures from the robust statistics arsenal which are used to make data more robust to deviations from normality. We show examples of how analyses can change when robust statistics are used. Robust statistics have been shown to be nearly as powerful and accurate as parametric statistics when data are normally distributed, and many times more powerful and accurate when data are non-normal.


07:45:21: Toward Automated Multi-trait Scoring of Essays: Investigating Links among Holistic, Analytic, and Text Feature Scores

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the distinctness and reliability of analytic (or multi-trait) rating dimensions and their relationships to holistic scores and e-rater® essay feature variables in the context of the TOEFL® computer-based test (TOEFL CBT) writing assessment. Data analyzed in the study were holistic and multi-trait essay scores provided by human raters and essay feature variable scores computed by e-rater® (version 2.0) for two TOEFL CBT writing prompts. It was found that (i) all of the six multi-trait scores were not only correlated among themselves but also correlated with the holistic score, (ii) high correlations obtained among holistic and multi-trait scores were largely attributable to the impact of essay length on both holistic and multi-trait scoring, and (iii) some strong associations were confirmed between several e-rater variables and multi-trait rating dimensions. Implications are discussed for improving the multi-trait scoring of essays, refining e-rater essay feature variables, and validating automated essay scores.


07:45:21: The Effects of Content and Language Integrated Learning in European Education: Key Findings from the Andalusian Bilingual Sections Evaluation Project

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) represents an increasingly popular pedagogic approach that has evolved in response to the recognised need for plurilingual competence in Europe. In this article, we present key findings from one of the first large-scale, multidimensional CLIL evaluation projects. We begin by outlining the emergence of European CLIL and by comparing it with other, non-European bilingual education initiatives and then we narrow the scope to Southern Spain, where the research was conducted. We outline the Andalusian Bilingual Sections programme, one of the cornerstones of the government's Plurilingualism Promotion Plan (2005), within which the research was conducted. In presenting results, we focus on specific areas that we believe make significant contributions to some of the key concerns in contemporary CLIL research including the linguistic competence of CLIL learners, the question of starting age, the distribution and functionalities of L2 use in CLIL classrooms, and the ways in which CLIL appears to be impacting on the educational system in general.


07:45:21: The Role of Language Aptitude in First Language Attrition: The Case of Pre-pubescent Attriters

While language aptitude has been investigated actively within second language research, there is a current dearth of research on the effects of aptitude in cases of attrition. The aim of the present investigation was to explore the role of language aptitude for L1 proficiency in speakers who experienced a break with their L1 setting prior to puberty. Twenty-five L1 Spanish—L2 Swedish bilinguals residing in Sweden participated in the study, and 15 native speakers of Spanish living in Chile were recruited as controls. The L1 proficiency was measured by means of a grammaticality judgement test (GJT) and language aptitude data were obtained through the Swansea Language Aptitude Test (Meara et al. 2003). Results showed a positive correlation between GJT performance and language aptitude. More specifically, the bilinguals with above-average aptitude were more likely to score within the native range on the GJT than those with below-average aptitude. It was also seen that among the participants with below-average aptitude, GJT scores were related to daily L1 use. In view of these findings, we suggest that language aptitude has a compensatory function in language attrition, helping the attriter to retain a high level of L1 proficiency despite reduced L1 contact.


07:45:21: The Soft Ideological Underbelly of the Notion of Intelligibility in Discussions about 'World Englishes'

The term ‘intelligibility’ is widely viewed as denoting an ideologically neutral concept and therefore useful in speculating about the future of the English language, especially in the context of its expansion at the current exponential rate and the danger or otherwise of its breaking up into mutually incomprehensible languages, the way Latin did in the Middle Ages. It has also been bandied about in the context of English language teaching, especially to speakers of other languages. In this piece, I question the status of intelligibility as an ideologically innocent concept and argue that the adjective intelligible is analogous to others such as beautiful, ugly, easy, difficult, primitive, civilized, and so forth, which are also sometimes used with respect to languages, and which we have long learned to regard with suspicion on the grounds that they invariably presuppose the standpoint of someone who furtively manages to remain invisible.


07:45:21: Alexandra Georgakopoulou: Small Stories, Interaction and Identities.

07:45:21: Thomas Farrell: Reflective Language Teaching: From Research to Practice.

07:45:21: Christiane Dalton-Puffer: Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms.

07:45:21: Paula Kalaja, Vera Menezes and Ana Maria F. Barcelos (eds): Narratives of Learning and Teaching EFL.

2010-05-21

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02:17:52: 21.2300, Support: Comp Ling, General Ling: PhD Student, U. of Gothenburg, Sweden

2010-05-19

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15:38:42: 21.2267, Qs: Move Analysis Applied to Dissertation Abstracts

2010-05-18

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19:47:05: 21.2251, Qs: The Quran: Romanized, Phonetic Transcription

19:44:42: 21.2250, Qs: Auto versus Human Translation Relay Experiment

Georgetown University

05:00:00: Doyle Fellows Bring Diversity Into Class Focus
Faculty members find creative ways to infuse tolerance, empathy and cultural understanding into courses as part of the Doyle Initiative.

2010-05-17

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20:53:24: 21.2247, Sum: Gender, Sexuality, and Language on the Internet

2010-05-11

The LINGUIST List: Disc

15:20:01: 21.2179, Disc: Supposed Compensatory Lengthening

2010-05-08

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18:39:49: 21.2159, Qs: Anthropology of Grief: Language of Bereavement

18:36:27: 21.2158, Qs: Typology: Lexicalization of Negation

2010-05-07

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20:00:32: 21.2141, Disc: Moroccan Sign Language

18:44:45: 21.2140, Disc: Jerome's Self-Contradiction on Bible Translation

2010-05-04

Georgetown University

05:00:00: Newsmakers: May 5, 2010
Newsmakers highlights the innovative research, published materials and accolades of faculty and staff at Georgetown University. Catch a glimpse of who's listed this week.

2010-05-03

The LINGUIST List: Media

23:30:03: 21.2084, Media: Documenting Endangered Languages in New York City

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17:28:43: 21.2074, All: Obituary: Ali-Muhammad Haghshenas-Laari, 1940-2010

2010-04-30

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22:11:22: 21.2047, Disc: St Jerome Contradicts Himself on Bible Translation

2010-04-26

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16:07:27: 21.1975, Sum: Online Courses for Introduction to Linguistics

Georgetown University

05:00:00: 'Yellow Ribbon' Veterans Benefit Increased
Georgetown will offer increased benefits to eligible veterans in undergraduate programs in 2010-2011 through the Yellow Ribbon program.

2010-04-25

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04:19:05: 21.1973, Disc: Citing E-books

2010-04-24

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03:45:56: 21.1957, Support: Computational Ling: PhD Student, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark

2010-04-22

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19:19:52: 21.1928, Support: English & Applied Ling, Lang Acq: PhD Student, Universität Mainz

2010-04-18

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02:44:47: 21.1860, Disc: How Should I Code Textual Responses?

2010-04-15

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21:01:59: 21.1837, Sum: Discourse Analysis of Football (Soccer) Commentators

Applied Linguistics - recent issues

05:38:16: Sex/Gender, Language and the New Biologism

In recent years there has been a striking shift in both academic and popular discourse on the subject of male–female differences. It is increasingly common for biological explanations to be proposed for differences that had previously been treated by most investigators as effects of socio-cultural factors. This article critically examines the arguments as they apply to the specific case of male–female differences in linguistic behaviour. It concludes that the relevant linguistic research evidence does not on balance support the new biologism; that evidence is more adequately accounted for using the socio-cultural approaches which most linguistic researchers favour.


05:38:16: The Contribution of Written Corrective Feedback to Language Development: A Ten Month Investigation

The call for longitudinal evidence on the efficacy of written corrective feedback (WCF) for ESL (English as a second language) writers has been made repeatedly since Truscott (1996) claimed that it is ineffective, harmful, and should therefore be abandoned. This article discusses some of the theoretical issues raised against the practice, outlines the status of recent empirical evidence and presents a 10-month study of the effects of WCF on two functional uses of the English article system given to 52 low-intermediate ESL students in Auckland, New Zealand. Assigned to four groups (direct corrective feedback, written, and oral meta-linguistic explanation; direct corrective feedback and written meta-linguistic explanation; direct corrective feedback only; the control group), the students produced five pieces of writing (pre-test, immediate post-test, and three delayed post-tests). Each of the treatment groups outperformed the control group on all post-tests and no difference in effectiveness was found between the three treatment groups.


05:38:16: Probabilities and Surprises: A Realist Approach to Identifying Linguistic and Social Patterns, with Reference to an Oral History Corpus

The relationship between language and identity has been explored in a number of ways in applied linguistics, and this article focuses on a particular aspect of it: self-representation in the oral history interview. People from a wide range of backgrounds, currently resident in one large city in England, were asked to reflect on their lives as part of a project to celebrate the millennium, resulting in a corpus of 144 transcribed interviews. The article considers the utility of realist social theory and complexity theory in the analysis of patterns—and deviations from those patterns—in both the linguistic features of these interviews and the social categories to which people are routinely ascribed. Corpus linguistic software was used to identify discourse features of the corpus as a whole, and to compare and contrast features produced by different speakers with reference to the conventional social categories used in quantitative research. These categories, with their homogenizing limitations, are challenged with reference to complex causation. The article uses the category of gender to exemplify the multi-method approach advocated.


05:38:16: Lexical Diversity in Writing and Speaking Task Performances

In the rating scales of major international language tests, as well as in automated evaluation systems (e.g. e-rater), a positive relationship is often claimed between lexical diversity, holistic quality of written or spoken discourses, and language proficiency of candidates. This article reports a posteriori validation study that analysed a sample of the archived data of an international language test to examine empirically to what extent such relationships exist. It is also noted that previous studies on lexical diversity in the field of applied linguistics have focused exclusively on either written or spoken discourses, no study to date has compared lexical diversity of spoken and written discourses produced by the same participants. Therefore, the second aim of this article is to understand the differences in lexical diversity between writing and speaking task performances, and to what extent the topics of the writing prompts may affect lexical diversity of written discourses. Using D as a measure of lexical diversity (Malvern and Richards 1997, 2002; Malvern et al. 2004), it was found that D had a statistically significant and positive correlation with the overall quality ratings of both writing and speaking performances as well as the candidates’ general language proficiency. Nevertheless, the significant relationships were not borne out across the subgroups of the sample in terms of gender, first language background, purpose of taking the test and topics of the writing prompts. The different writing topics also had significant effects on lexical diversity—especially the topics that candidates were highly familiar with—even after controlling for writing ability and overall language proficiency. The lexical diversity of candidates’ writing and speaking performances were approximately at the same level; further, D was found to be a better predictor of speaking than writing performance. The implications of these findings are discussed with specific reference to the use of lexical diversity measures to inform language test validation and the development of lexical diversity parameters in automated evaluation systems.


05:38:16: Discourse Particles in Corpus Data and Textbooks: The Case of Well

Discourse particles are ubiquitous in spoken discourse. Yet despite their pervasiveness very few studies attempt to look at their use in the pedagogical setting. Drawing on data from an intercultural corpus of speech and a textbook database, the present study compares the use of discourse particles by expert users of English in Hong Kong with their descriptions and presentations in textbooks designed for learners of English in the same community. Specifically, it investigates the similarities and differences in the use of the discourse particle well between the two datasets in terms of its frequency of occurrence, its positional preference and its discourse function. Results from the analysis show that there are vast differences as regards how the particle well is used in real-world examples and how its use is described and presented in teaching materials. This raises the question to what extent foreign language learners who have minimal exposure to naturally-occurring spoken interactions in English could effectively master the use of discourse particles if they solely rely on these textbooks.


05:38:16: An Extended Positioning Analysis of a Pre-Service Teacher's Better Life Small Story

The analysis of narrative data in applied linguistics has focused to varying degrees on their content, form, and context, with content and thematic analyses being the focus in much of the narrative research in language learning and teaching (Pavlenko 2007). The aim of this article is to report on a positioning analysis of a small story about the imagined ‘better life’ of a migrant, pre-service teacher. Positioning analysis operates on three levels, which together require the analyst to examine the content and characters in the story, the interactive performance of the story, and the positions that are agentively taken by the narrator vis-à-vis normative discourses. Positioning analysis thus considers content, form, and context. I propose and demonstrate an extended version of this approach which enables inclusion of data beyond the small story. The analysis reveals how the teacher interactively constructs an answer to the question ‘Who am I?’ in her story.


05:38:16: Input Quality Matters: Some Comments on Input Type and Age-Effects in Adult SLA

In accord with the general program of researching factors relating to ultimate attainment and maturational constraints in adult language acquisition, this commentary highlights the importance of input differences in amount, type, and setting between naturalistic and classroom learners of an L2. It is suggested that these variables are often confounded with age factors. Herein, we wish to call attention to the possible deterministic role that the differences in the grammatical quality of classroom input have on development and on competence outcomes. Framing what we see as greater formal complexity of the learning task for classroom learners, we suggest that one might benefit from focusing less on difference and more on how classroom L2 learners, at least some of them, come to acquire all that they do despite crucial qualitative differences in their input.


05:38:16: Hannes Kniffka: Working in Language and Law: A German Perspective.

05:38:16: Nancy H. Hornberger (ed.): Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents.

05:38:16: E. Alcon Soler and Alicia Martinez Flor (Eds): Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing.

05:38:16: Jeff Siegel: The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages.

05:38:16: Notes on Contributors

05:38:16: Readers During 2008/2009

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2010-04-14

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22:50:02: 21.1813, Support: Arrernte & Comp Ling: PhD Student, Macquerie U., Australia

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2010-04-12

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05:20:08: 21.1768, Support: English,Cognitive Science: PhD Student, U. of Osnabrueck, Germany

05:18:33: 21.1767, Support: Clinical Ling,Speech Sciences: PhD Student,Trinity College Dublin

2010-04-07

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19:30:02: 21.1692, Sum: Relationship Between Spoken and Written Grammar

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02:46:02: 21.1627, MultiTree: A Useful Tool for Linguists

2010-04-04

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2010-03-29

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21:16:08: 21.1512, Sum: German Grammar Checker

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02:36:43: 21.1499, Support: Speech Communication: PhD Student, AFCP, France

2010-03-25

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17:52:42: 21.1459, Sum: Transcribing Group Interactions

2010-03-23

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18:53:39: 21.1411, Support: Comp Ling,Speech Technology,Cog Sci: PhD Student, U. of Edinburgh

2010-03-22

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20:52:28: 21.1393, Support: Cog Science, Comp Ling: PhD Student, Queen Mary, U. of London, UK

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2010-03-20

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04:07:21: 21.1353, Support: Comp Ling,Lang Documentation,Psycholing: PhD Student, Nanyang U.

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2010-03-14

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03:30:33: 21.1252, Support: Phonetics,Prosody&Discourse: PhD Student,Texas A&M Commerce, USA

2010-03-10

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17:47:58: 21.1189, Support: English & Morphology: PhD Student, Victoria U. of Wellington, NZ

2010-03-09

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17:49:03: 21.1154, Software: NavigAIS - AIS Digital Atlas & Navigation Software

2010-03-05

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16:17:58: 21.1078, Disc: Ross's Rule

2010-02-24

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17:12:16: 21.923, Software: Onoma: New and existing Spanish verbs conjugator

17:09:48: 21.922, Software: PANL10n Releases Linguistic Resources and Software

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17:07:10: 21.921, Sum: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Science Fiction

2010-02-23

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16:30:33: 21.894, Software: Paradigm - A Better Way to Build Your Experiments

16:07:36: 21.892, Software: New linguistic software from CLL

2010-02-21

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19:03:59: 21.875, Disc: Ranya Morsi's Dissertation Considered

2010-02-12

Georgetown University

04:00:00: Learning Perseveres Despite Winter Storms
Faculty members find ways to make the most of coursework during the six-day university shutdown.

2010-02-08

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15:48:26: 21.641, Media: Death of the last speaker of Bo language

2010-02-03

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03:02:29: 21.534, Disc: Interesting Analogy Question

2010-01-28

Georgetown University

04:00:00: Obama is 'Somber' but 'Dynamic' in Speeches, Analyst Says: CNN

2010-01-27

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00:51:38: 21.429, Media: Dialect Variation in the US

2010-01-25

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16:13:39: 21.396, Software: OTKit: new software for Optimality Theory

2010-01-12

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14:56:41: 21.183, Media: Top English Words of 2009

2010-01-05

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16:34:24: 21.24, Disc: Delayed emergence of a grammatical form

Georgetown University

04:00:00: Faculty Present at Language Convention
Georgetown language experts showcase their work on everything from poetry to 19th century science fiction at the annual Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia.

2009-12-04

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20:08:19: 20.4153, Media: Stream BBC Radio Program on Creoles/Lang Variation

2009-11-24

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16:25:15: 20.4023, Software: Input method for Classical Sanskrit

2009-11-17

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16:59:11: 20.3947, Software: LexChecker - an web-based BNC-corpus query service

16:45:33: 20.3946, Software: Linguos - Cross-language search

2009-11-16

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18:32:41: 20.3930, Software: Release of the Automated Retrieval Console

2009-10-29

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18:58:38: 20.3671, Software: Lexical-Functional Grammar parser XLFG5

2009-10-26

The LINGUIST List: Sum

05:12:27: 20.3610, Sum: British Dialects: Cockney

2009-10-20

The LINGUIST List: Media

18:14:01: 20.3520, Media: Language Endangerment and Death

2009-10-14

The LINGUIST List: Media

19:03:26: 20.3452, Media: New MIT Press podcast with Noam Chomsky

2009-10-08

The LINGUIST List: Disc

21:19:09: 20.3408, Disc: Extrapolate benefits of early biling-ism to L2ers?

2009-10-07

The LINGUIST List: Disc

22:02:27: 20.3382, Disc: Interest in dependency grammar (summary)

2009-09-30

The LINGUIST List: Software

19:32:43: 20.3302, Software: Synview - A syntax tree visualization tool

2009-09-29

The LINGUIST List: Software

17:11:25: 20.3280, Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

2009-09-28

The LINGUIST List: Sum

06:03:38: 20.3276, Sum: Responses for Consonant Cluster Typology

2009-09-27

The LINGUIST List: Disc

16:09:50: 20.3270, Disc: Interest in Dependency Grammar

2009-09-24

The LINGUIST List: Sum

18:28:32: 20.3235, Sum: Language Maps

2009-09-21

The LINGUIST List: Disc

15:21:29: 20.3188, Disc: Review of 'Boko dictionary'

2009-09-12

The LINGUIST List: Media

22:34:42: 20.3062, Media: Ainu Teaching Controversy at Hokkaido University, Japan

2009-09-09

The LINGUIST List: Software

04:16:27: 20.3020, Software: ELRA: Distribution Agreement signed for BioLexicon

2009-08-26

The LINGUIST List: Sum

22:48:13: 20.2889, Sum: Kissing in Letters and Texts

The LINGUIST List: Software

05:12:50: 20.2879, Software: Linguos - Update

2009-08-10

The LINGUIST List: Disc

17:54:12: 20.2738, Disc: Role of TOEFL Exam in Language Learning

2009-07-28

The LINGUIST List: Media

16:48:39: 20.2625, Media: Digital Tools for Linguistic Research

2009-07-22

The LINGUIST List: Media

15:21:08: 20.2575, Media: NPR Newscast on Shoshone Revival Program

2009-07-15

The LINGUIST List: Sum

20:00:07: 20.2513, Sum: Linguistics Instruction - Use of Media Clips

2009-07-10

The LINGUIST List: Software

19:52:32: 20.2477, Software: ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Update

2009-07-09

The LINGUIST List: Software

05:38:44: 20.2446, Software: EXMARaLDA: Spoken Language Corpus Software

2009-06-24

The LINGUIST List: Software

02:54:49: 20.2270, Software: International Corpus of Learner English Version 2

2009-06-23

The LINGUIST List: Sum

17:07:27: 20.2265, Sum: Language as a Diagnostic Criterion for Psychosis

2009-06-18

The LINGUIST List: Sum

22:25:08: 20.2226, Sum: Strunk & White Research

2009-06-16

The LINGUIST List: Sum

22:42:23: 20.2197, Sum: Anti-Perfect

2009-06-11

The LINGUIST List: Software

16:09:41: 20.2136, Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

2009-06-07

The LINGUIST List: Software

04:39:45: 20.2100, Software: On-line Delivery of Arboreal and ArborWin

2009-06-04

The LINGUIST List: Media

21:36:37: 20.2075, Media: Endangered Lang Article in Chronicle of Higher Ed

2009-06-01

The LINGUIST List: Media

18:04:13: 20.2028, Media: Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak

2009-05-28

The LINGUIST List: Software

20:31:49: 20.2008, Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

2009-05-18

The LINGUIST List: Disc

22:13:47: 20.1910, Disc: New: Developing a High School Linguistics Course

2009-05-11

The LINGUIST List: Software

23:06:22: 20.1829, Software: Beta Release: Multi-lingual, Non-English Search

2009-05-04

The LINGUIST List: Disc

17:03:53: 20.1716, Disc: Uneducated families = Noncomplex languages

2009-05-01

The LINGUIST List: Software

19:37:16: 20.1678, Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

The LINGUIST List: Disc

16:31:24: 20.1674, Disc: Uneducated families = Noncomplex language?

2009-04-22

The LINGUIST List: Media

16:57:17: 20.1529, Media: New York Times Article on NYT Annotated Corpus

2009-04-06

The LINGUIST List: Media

19:15:27: 20.1291, Media: Washington Post article on endangered languages

2009-03-31

The LINGUIST List: Software

18:49:21: 20.1178, Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

2009-03-25

The LINGUIST List: Software

20:15:04: 20.1083, Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

2009-03-08

The LINGUIST List: Sum

20:12:37: 20.734, Sum: Introductory Linguistics Texts in English

2009-02-26

The LINGUIST List: Media

17:59:38: 20.608, Media: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS

17:56:14: 20.607, Media: Ladefoged in the news

2009-02-18

The LINGUIST List: Sum

14:32:32: 20.513, Sum: Equivalents to the General Service List

2009-02-09

The LINGUIST List: Sum

20:46:25: 20.413, Sum: Vocabulary Statistics

2009-02-03

The LINGUIST List: Sum

16:37:28: 20.347, Sum: Results of Survey on Proper Name Substitutions

14:18:23: 20.346, Sum: Linger Does Work in Korean too!

2009-01-30

The LINGUIST List: Sum

18:11:03: 20.295, Sum: Animal Names Used in Addressing People

2009-01-27

The LINGUIST List: Software

16:42:11: 20.254, Software: Phone Text Corpus And Software

2009-01-22

The LINGUIST List: Sum

00:42:47: 20.194, Sum: Feeding and Counterfeeding

2008-12-21

The LINGUIST List: Sum

15:14:46: 19.3932, Sum: Linguists Writing About Their Own Children

2008-12-16

The LINGUIST List: Sum

17:34:18: 19.3858, Sum: Grammatical Category of Worth

2008-10-31

The LINGUIST List: Media

05:05:45: 19.3303, Media: News Reviews in Jamaican Creole

2008-10-27

The LINGUIST List: Sum

15:18:04: 19.3236, Sum: Intrusive Liquids in English

2008-10-08

The LINGUIST List: Sum

15:16:30: 19.3044, Sum: Goal-Location-Source Ambiguities

2008-07-24

The LINGUIST List: Media

20:08:14: 19.2341, Media: Court Says Yup'ik Not Written Language

2008-04-14

The LINGUIST List: Media

17:55:30: 19.1260, Media: Loss of Native American Languages and Cultures

2008-03-15

The LINGUIST List: Media

03:55:17: 19.868, Media: Nim Chimsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human

2008-02-11

The LINGUIST List: Media

21:29:08: 19.488, Media: Article on Language Evolution in Science Magazine

2008-01-17

The LINGUIST List: Media

16:39:17: 19.201, Media: Handheld 'Phraselator' Translation Unit

2007-10-05

The LINGUIST List: Media

18:48:42: 18.2903, Media: Linguistics Ig Nobel Prize

18:43:51: 18.2902, Media: Brasilia Governor Bans Verb Form

2007-09-28

The LINGUIST List: Media

18:39:40: 18.2823, Media: NYT: K. D. Harrison, When Languages Die #2

2007-09-24

The LINGUIST List: Media

19:42:05: 18.2765, Media: Sunday NYT: K. D. Harrison, When Languages Die

2007-08-23

The LINGUIST List: Media

18:03:42: 18.2481, Media: Genetics and Tone Languages

18:02:11: 18.2480, Media: A Unique Signing Language in Israel

2007-08-09

The LINGUIST List: Media

23:15:21: 18.2384, Media: Live Webcast for Comp Ling MA at U of Washington

2007-07-30

The LINGUIST List: Media

21:23:19: 18.2273, Media: An Interesting Article-Language: A Common Root?