Linguistics News

2010-02-08

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

23:10:26: TOC: Viewz Vol 18, No 2 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: TOC

23:10:26: TOC: Viewz Vol 18, No 2 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

23:05:14: TOC: Probus Vol 21, No 2 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: TOC

23:05:14: TOC: Probus Vol 21, No 2 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

23:02:47: TOC: Folia Linguistica Vol 43, No 2 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: TOC

23:02:47: TOC: Folia Linguistica Vol 43, No 2 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

22:37:49: Diss: Acoustic Cues to Speech Segmentation in Spoken French: Native and non-native strategies

The LINGUIST List: Diss

22:37:49: Diss: Acoustic Cues to Speech Segmentation in Spoken French: Native and non-native strategies

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

22:32:44: Diss: Dialect Boundaries and Phonological Change in Upstate New York

The LINGUIST List: Diss

22:32:44: Diss: Dialect Boundaries and Phonological Change in Upstate New York

School of Languages, Linguistics & Culture

21:10:02: Languages video: The Birkbeck Language Experience
Languages video: The Birkbeck Language Experience
21:10:02: Professor Hélène Cixous - Special Lecture, 4 June 2009
Professor Hélène Cixous - Special Lecture, 4 June 2009
21:10:02: School of Languages Linguistics & Culture Timetable
School of Languages Linguistics & Culture Timetable
21:10:02: 'Japanese Dept Special Lecture - 'Hafu' Japanese Identity'
'Japanese Dept Special Lecture - 'Hafu' Japanese Identity'
21:10:02: Research Newsletter no.6 now available (Oct. 2008)
Research Newsletter no.6 now available (Oct. 2008)
21:10:02: Madeleine Renouard, emeritus Reader from the French department,
Madeleine Renouard, emeritus Reader from the French department,

Linguistics

21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.
21:10:02: 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.

UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Department

21:10:03: 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 ...
21:10:03: LURC (Annual Undergraduate Research Conference)
The department's annual celebration of undergraduate research (LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference) took place on Friday June 5th in Room 210 of Humanities One. The conference featured 5 papers on the phonology, semantics and syntax ...
21:10:03: 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 ...
21:10:03: 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
21:10:03: LASC 2009
On Saturday March 8th, the department hosted one of the most important events of the year—the annual graduate student conference known as LASC (Linguistics at Santa Cruz). This annual event provides second and third year students in the program ...
21:10:03: 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 ...
21:10:03: 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...
21:10:03: Hiring
The Department invites applications for an on-going pool of qualified temporary lecturers. (Job Description)

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

20:39:55: Confs: Regards Plurilingues sur les Discours de la Bourse

The LINGUIST List: Confs

20:39:55: Confs: Regards Plurilingues sur les Discours de la Bourse

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

20:37:33: Confs: Communication Studies

The LINGUIST List: Confs

20:37:33: Confs: Communication Studies

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

20:34:39: Confs: European Workshop on Teacher Education in CALL

The LINGUIST List: Confs

20:34:39: Confs: European Workshop on Teacher Education in CALL

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

20:23:27: Confs: LAGB Annual Meeting 2010

The LINGUIST List: Confs

20:23:27: Confs: LAGB Annual Meeting 2010

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

19:06:56: Support: Algonquian;Iroquoian;Siouan & Morphosyntax: PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

The LINGUIST List: Support

19:06:56: Support: Algonquian;Iroquoian;Siouan & Morphosyntax: PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

18:00:25: Books: A Grammar of the Miship Language: Mu'azu, Isah

The LINGUIST List: Books

18:00:25: Books: A Grammar of the Miship Language: Mu'azu, Isah

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

17:52:31: Calls: International Gender and Language Association

The LINGUIST List: Calls

17:52:31: Calls: International Gender and Language Association

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

17:47:49: Calls: Intelligent Linguistic Technologies 2010

The LINGUIST List: Calls

17:47:49: Calls: Intelligent Linguistic Technologies 2010

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

17:41:52: Calls: 4th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association

The LINGUIST List: Calls

17:41:52: Calls: 4th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

17:38:44: Calls: First International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse

The LINGUIST List: Calls

17:38:44: Calls: First International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

17:33:03: Calls: Lexical and Functional Decomposition in Syntax

The LINGUIST List: Calls

17:33:03: Calls: Lexical and Functional Decomposition in Syntax

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

17:29:41: Calls: Workshop:Association for Linguistic Typology 9th Biennial Meeting

The LINGUIST List: Calls

17:29:41: Calls: Workshop:Association for Linguistic Typology 9th Biennial Meeting

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

17:15:33: Books: An Introduction to Vlach Grammar: Marangozis

The LINGUIST List: Books

17:15:33: Books: An Introduction to Vlach Grammar: Marangozis

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

17:02:16: Books: Language Use and Maintenance of Non-indigenous Minorities: The British-Moroccan Minority: Jamai

The LINGUIST List: Books

17:02:16: Books: Language Use and Maintenance of Non-indigenous Minorities: The British-Moroccan Minority: Jamai

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

16:53:47: Books: The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis: Aelbrecht

The LINGUIST List: Books

16:53:47: Books: The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis: Aelbrecht

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

16:49:34: Books: Multilingualism: Blackledge, Creese (Eds)

The LINGUIST List: Books

16:49:34: Books: Multilingualism: Blackledge, Creese (Eds)

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

15:48:26: Media: Death of last speaker of Bo

The LINGUIST List: Media

15:48:26: Media: Death of last speaker of Bo

Inttranews - Daily News Site for Linguists

08:52:18: Canada: Interpreter taken from deaf pupil
Toronto, Canada (Examiner): A Peterborough mother is speaking out after the local Catholic school board cancelled the interpreter support in junior kindergarten for her four-year-old son who is deaf. Jonah didn't go to St. Patrick's School on Wednesday because he was so upset that the interpreter who was working with him had been reassigned, said Jessika Van Spronsen, Jonah's mother. "They're saying he does not qualify because he does not initiate conversation so therefore he does not sign," she said. "He's deaf, obviously he signs.... He will be deaf, mute for the rest of his life. For more information, please visit: www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2438285
08:51:53: Minnesota: Deaf patient was dying, but there was no interpreter to tell her
Minnesota, USA (Star Tribune): David Nelson got the bad news about his wife in December 2005. He just didn't know it. For three months, the Nelsons met with doctors at North Memorial Medical Center, but they weren't aware Mary Ann was dying of cancer. In fact, they thought she was doing well enough in her battle with the disease that she could go to her retirement party. So they were stunned in March 2006 when her oncologist abruptly put an end to their hopes -- and their request -- with a terse note saying, "We can't cure the cancer." For more information, please visit: www.startribune.com/local/83692992.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUncacyi8cyaiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUs
08:51:23: UK: £19m school bill for parents' translators
London, UK (Express): Britain’s schools are being asked to pay out huge sums to translate standard school reports into foreign languages for the benefit of pupils’ parents. Councils across the country have been forced to spend £19.1million a year on translation services, money they desperately need to pay for extra teachers. For more information, please visit: www.express.co.uk/posts/view/156690/-19m-school-bill-for-parents-translators-
08:51:02: Despite U.S. citizenship woes, contract translator serves in Iraq
California, USA (Freep): Naji Chammout says the U.S. government trusts him enough to translate for top military commanders in Iraq, but not enough to become a U.S. citizen. "I've waited and waited and waited since 2002 for them to approve my citizenship request, and it's never come," said Chammout, 42, of Dearborn. He and his lawyer, George Mann of Farmington Hills, said Chammout has spent $20,000 in application fees, legal charges and travel expenses on a request that should have cost no more than $1,500 and taken less than a year to approve. For more information, please visit: www.freep.com/article/20100207/NEWS06/2070410/1320/Man-risks-life-for-country-not-his-own
08:50:37: Google leaps language barrier with translator phone
/img_b5BTZYUHc8NGulljRiov_0.gifLondon, UK (Times): Google is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly — like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. By building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hopes to have a basic system ready within a couple of years. For more information, please visit: technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article7017831.ece
08:49:52: A defendant is fluent only in a Mayan dialect. No translators are found. Can a trial be fair?
/img_b5BTZYUHc8NGulljRiov_0.gifFlorida, USA (Tampa Bay): When West Tampa lawyer Bryant Camareno first spoke to Pablo-Ramirez, the prisoner mixed bits of Spanish with Mam in a combination the lawyer couldn't understand. Camareno knew he needed to find a Mam interpreter. But how? There is no state certification for Mam interpreters, no central bank. Texas linguistics professor Nora C. England wrote her doctoral dissertation on Mam grammar and has penned entire books about Mayan languages. Even she can't speak Mam well enough to translate, she says. She knows no one who does. For more information, please visit: www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/obscure-mayan-language-leaves-justice-tongue-tied/1071371
08:49:28: 2 Swedish officers, one translator killed in Afghanistan
/img_b5BTZYUHc8NGulljRiov_0.gifStockholm, Sweden (AP): The Swedish Armed Forces say two of its officers and a locally hired interpreter have been killed in northern Afghanistan. The two soldiers were shot west of Mazar-e-Sharif and taken to a field hospital at Camp Marmal outside the city. In a brief statement Sunday it also said a third Swedish soldier has been wounded. For more information, please visit: www.todayonline.com/BreakingNews/EDC100208-0000004/Swedish-army-says-2-Swedish-officers,-one-translator-killed-in-Afghanistan
08:49:07: Continued Selling Pressure in Shares of Manpower
/img_b5BTZYUHc8NGulljRiov_0.gifNew York, USA (SmarTrend): SmarTrend identified a Downtrend for Manpower on January 22, 2010 at $53.34. In approximately 2 weeks, Manpower has returned 3.4% as of today's recent price of $51.50. Manpower is currently below its 50-day moving average of $54.78 and should find support at its 200-day moving average of $49.80. Look for these moving averages to decline to confirm the company's downward momentum. For more information, please visit: www.mysmartrend.com/sl/28386

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

02:52:42: FYI: Update: Closure of Phonetics and CompLing in Bonn

The LINGUIST List: FYI

02:52:42: FYI: Update: Closure of Phonetics and CompLing in Bonn

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

02:46:26: FYI: Call for Book Submissions: Fluency in EFL

The LINGUIST List: FYI

02:46:26: FYI: Call for Book Submissions: Fluency in EFL

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

02:41:53: FYI: Call for Chapters: Natural Language Processing

The LINGUIST List: FYI

02:41:53: FYI: Call for Chapters: Natural Language Processing

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

02:05:55: FYI: Free Haitian Creole Learning Materials

The LINGUIST List: FYI

02:05:55: FYI: Free Haitian Creole Learning Materials

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

02:03:19: FYI: Call for Papers: 'Endangered Metaphors'

The LINGUIST List: FYI

02:03:19: FYI: Call for Papers: 'Endangered Metaphors'

2010-02-07

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

23:04:11: Calls: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2010)

The LINGUIST List: Calls

23:04:11: Calls: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2010)

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

23:02:00: Calls: Dummy Auxiliaries in (A)typical First and Second Language Acquisition

The LINGUIST List: Calls

23:02:00: Calls: Dummy Auxiliaries in (A)typical First and Second Language Acquisition

The LINGUIST List: MostRecent

22:58:41: Calls: Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon

The LINGUIST List: Calls

22:58:41: Calls: Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon

22:40:27: Calls: Second Workshop on African Language Technology

22:36:35: Calls: Impact of Globalisation on Business Communication

22:28:34: Calls: IX Kongress der Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos

The LINGUIST List: Confs

20:16:52: Confs: Minicourses on Language and Linguistics at Brown

20:14:09: Confs: L’interprétation, c’est Quoi au Juste?

20:10:48: Confs: Reference and Accessiblity

The LINGUIST List: Calls

02:46:58: Calls: IEEE Intelligent Systems

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

02:22:01: Jobs: General Linguistics, First Nations Languages: Post Doc, University of British Columbia, Canada

2010-02-06

The LINGUIST List: Books

22:06:15: Books: Burushaski as an Indo-European 'Kentum' Language: Čašule

21:58:54: Books: Current Perspectives in Phono-Syntax and Dialectology: Adika, Fábùnmi, Sàláwù (Eds)

21:50:31: Books: Corpus-linguistic applications: Gries, Wulff, Davies (Eds)

21:46:40: Books: The Phonology of Two Central Chadic Languages: Smith, Gravina

21:42:05: Books: The Linguistics Enterprise: Everaert, Lentz, Mulder, Nilse, Zondervan (Eds)

21:35:32: Books: Storytelling and Drama: Bowles

The LINGUIST List: Calls

21:03:37: Calls: Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language

20:59:43: Calls: Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs 2010

20:54:42: Calls: Legal Terminology: Research and Practice

20:49:52: Calls: Association for Linguistic Typology 9th Biennial Meetin

20:45:16: Calls: Session Poster Numérique- Ecole Thématique Hybride Franco-Italienne

20:37:38: Calls: Ecole Thématique Hybride Franco-Italienne

04:05:53: Calls: Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics

The LINGUIST List: Books

03:21:46: Books: Modality and Subordinators: Nordström

03:18:45: Books: Minority Languages and Group Identity: Edwards

03:13:23: Books: Language Death in Mesmes: Ahland

03:06:40: Books: A resource-light approach to morpho-syntactic tagging: Feldman, Hana

03:02:29: Books: Linguistics Meets Chronobiology: Rosenberg

2010-02-05

The LINGUIST List: Calls

23:19:23: Calls: Seventh International Conference on the Mental Lexicon

23:12:16: Calls: NAACL-HLT-2010 Workshop on Semantic Search

23:07:32: Calls: Workshop on Multimodal Corpora

23:02:01: Calls: 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science

22:58:33: Calls: Culture, Code, Nature, Machine

22:54:10: Calls: Workshop on Semantic Relations. Theory and Application

22:49:00: Calls: L'influence de la Mondialisation sur la Communication

22:40:50: Calls: Workshop on Inference from Text

22:35:03: Calls: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language

The LINGUIST List: Confs

18:34:01: Confs: Impact of Globalisation on Business Communication

18:18:28: Confs: IX Kongress der Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos

18:15:18: Confs: Plenary Session

18:12:01: Confs: LIA International Conference 2010

18:09:20: Confs: Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs 2010

The LINGUIST List: FYI

17:46:51: FYI: 'Popular Anthropology' Volunteer Reviewers Needed

17:44:49: FYI: American Indian/Polynesian Language Lessons

The LINGUIST List: Review

15:52:57: Review: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

The LINGUIST List: Calls

15:43:43: Calls: International Journal of Communication

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

15:32:57: Jobs: Individual Differences in Language Processing: Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands

15:21:24: Jobs: Psycholinguistics or Linguistic Analysis of Sign Language: Professor (W2), Goethe-Universität, Germany

15:12:22: Jobs: Spanish & Translation: Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, NC, USA

15:02:44: Jobs: Theoretical Computational Linguistics: Full Professorship (W3), University of Potsdam, Germany

The LINGUIST List: Review

13:40:35: Review: A Reference Grammar of Thai

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

07:44:37: Jobs: Spanish & Language Acquisition: Project Linguist, Mango Languages, Michigan, USA

2010-02-04

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

19:22:18: Jobs: Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL): Assistant Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada

19:16:25: Jobs: Semantics; Syntax; General Linguistics: Post Doc, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain

The LINGUIST List: Diss

18:47:28: Diss: Los Tiempos del Pasado del Indicativo en Español y en Griego Moderno

The LINGUIST List: Books

18:36:06: Books: Beyond Narrative Coherence: Hyvärinen, Hydén, Saarenheimo, Tamboukou (Eds)

18:32:06: Books: Editorials and the Power of Media: Le

18:25:55: Books: The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis: Myers (Ed)

18:21:12: Books: A Descriptive Analysis of Bura Verbs and Vocabulary: Mu'azu, Balami

18:09:08: Books: Academic Writing: Charles, Hunston, Pecorari (Eds)

The LINGUIST List: TOC

17:27:38: TOC: Humor Vol 22, No 4 (2009)

17:24:51: TOC: Intercultural Pragmatics Vol 6, No 4 (2009)

16:49:58: TOC: Text & Talk Vol 30, No 1 (2010)

16:43:09: TOC: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Vol 30, No 2 (2009)

16:40:29: TOC: The Linguistic Review Vol 26, no 4 (2009)

16:34:49: TOC: Text & Talk Vol 29, No 6 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: Confs

16:28:16: Confs: L’influence de la Mondialisation sur la Communication

16:25:03: Confs: North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information

16:21:34: Confs: Dynamics of Terms in Specialised Communication

The LINGUIST List: FYI

16:10:45: FYI: Call for Readings in African Dialectology Chapters

16:08:21: FYI: Historical Thesaurus Scholarships

The LINGUIST List: Review

15:24:45: Review: Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

14:47:58: Jobs: Modern English Linguistics: Professor, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

The LINGUIST List: Books

02:57:02: Books: Telling and Retelling: Meliebary

2010-02-03

The LINGUIST List: FYI

21:03:34: FYI: Language: Recent Publications 86.1

20:33:52: FYI: Discount from Routledge through February 10

20:29:53: FYI: World Loanword Database Release

20:26:41: FYI: New Book Series on Cognitive Ling from Benjamins

The LINGUIST List: Confs

19:52:36: Confs: SyntaxFest 2010

19:50:43: Confs: Khakasian Summer School

19:48:16: Confs: Word Classes: Nature, Typology, Computational Representation

19:44:24: Confs: Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication

19:40:28: Confs: Tutorial on Fluid Construction Grammar

The LINGUIST List: FYI

18:39:26: FYI: All-New SpecGram (February 2010) Online

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

17:13:35: Jobs: Spanish & Lexicography, Text/corpus Linguistics: Consultant, Nuance Communications Inc.

16:31:57: Jobs:

The LINGUIST List: All

14:52:22: All: Obituary: Arthur J. Bronstein

The LINGUIST List: Disc

03:02:29: Disc: Interesting Analogy Question

2010-02-02

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

21:42:46: Jobs: Phonetics, Computational Linguistics: Linguist (Contractor), Sensory, Inc., Oregon, USA

The LINGUIST List: Books

18:52:16: Books: Intercultural Business Communication and Simulation and Gaming Methodology: Guillén-Nieto, Marimón-Llorca, Vargas-Sierra (Eds)

The LINGUIST List: Qs

18:11:08: Qs: Call for Participants: SemEval Shared Task 10

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

17:50:02: Jobs: Pragmatics; Semantics: Lecturer, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

17:46:25: Jobs: General Linguistics; Phonology: Professor, University of Potsdam, Germany

17:35:54: Jobs: German; Applied Linguistics: Researcher, Europäische Akademie Bozen (EURAC), Italy

The LINGUIST List: Support

16:37:19: Support: General Linguistics: PhD Student, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Applied Linguistics - current issue

06:36:02: Textual Appropriation and Citing Behaviors of University Undergraduates

This article explores the citing behaviors of 16 undergraduates in a North American university. After completing a research paper for their disciplinary courses, each participating student was interviewed to identify in his/her writing words and ideas borrowed from source texts and to explain why and how the relevant texts were appropriated with or without citations. Analysis of students’ writing and comments illustrates how they relied on source texts for various aspects of their essays, some of which they believed required citations while some of which did not. Results showed that they tried to strike a balance between the need to cite published authors to gain credit for the scholarly quality of their writing and the desire to establish their own voice by limiting the extent to which they cited other texts. Some students also reported how they chose between quoting and paraphrasing (though the latter sometimes contained direct copying) on the basis of their ability to rephrase other's words and their understanding of the different roles played by the two. The study indicates the degree to which citational acts are discursive markings of learning and knowledge construction.


06:36:02: Practices of Other-Initiated Repair in the Classrooms of Children with Specific Speech and Language Difficulties

Repair practices used by teachers who work with children with specific speech and language difficulties (SSLDs) have hitherto remained largely unexplored. Such classrooms therefore offer a new context for researching repairs and considering how they compare with non-SSLD interactions. Repair trajectories are of interest because they are dialogic sites where the child's meaning is being negotiated and, therefore, where adults might create opportunities for language learning. The interactions take place during activities, such as story writing, where teachers elicit children's ideas and orient to their lack of clarity. From a data set of 78 cases, four significant patterns of teacher repair initiation emerged. First, non-specific repair initiators (RIs), such as ‘say that again’, target any aspect of the prior turn and reveal the adult's lack of grasp of its content. Next, specific RIs (‘she has’) that are constructed with minimal components of the child's turn, pinpoint the location of the trouble but provide no new lexical information. In contrast, specific RIs that are constructed as ‘wh’ questions (‘down where’), target the nature of the trouble and elicit further information. Finally, offers of candidates (‘do you mean X’) do provide new models of lexis but do not elicit repetition from the child.


06:36:02: Style Shifts among Japanese Learners before and after Study Abroad in Japan: Becoming Active Social Agents in Japanese

Previous studies on L2 Japanese sojourners often reported that learners overuse the plain style or haphazardly mix the plain and polite styles upon return. These styles, which are often associated with formal or informal contexts, also index complex social and situational meanings, and native speakers are reported to shift their styles to create desired contexts. In order to better understand L2 development of the use of the plain and polite styles during study abroad, the current study examined the use of the polite/plain styles and style shifts among five English-speaking male students who studied in Japan for one academic year by comparing their performances both quantitatively and qualitatively in oral proficiency interviews before and after they studied abroad. Upon return, three predominantly used the polite style talking to the interviewer (their former teacher), while two primarily used the plain style. Though the quantitative analysis may lead one to conclude that these two students regressed in their pragmatic competence, the qualitative analysis revealed that all five learners gained some understanding of social meanings of the plain and polite styles and became more active social agents who make decisions to shift the styles.


06:36:02: The Relationship between Applied Linguistic Research and Language Policy for Bilingual Education

Currently, restrictive-language policies seem to threaten bilingual education throughout the USA. Anti-bilingual education initiatives have passed easily in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts, while one was closely defeated in Colorado, and federal education policy has re-invigorated the focus on English education for English language learners, while concomitantly obfuscating the possibility of native language maintenance and developmental bilingual education. This is the educational landscape within which bilingual education researchers, educators, and students must face the formidable challenge of preserving educational choice and bilingual education. Thus, substantive research is needed on how bilingual educators navigate this challenging ideological and policy landscape. Based on an ethnographic study of bilingual education language policy, this article takes up this challenge by focusing on how beliefs about Applied Linguistics research influence the interpretation and appropriation of federal language policy in one US school district. The results have implications for the relationship between the Applied Linguistic research community and language policy processes.


06:36:02: Seizure, Fit or Attack? The Use of Diagnostic Labels by Patients with Epileptic or Non-epileptic Seizures

We present an analysis of the use of diagnostic labels such as seizure, attack, fit, and blackout by patients who experience seizures. While previous research on patients’ preferences for diagnostic terminology has relied on questionnaires, we assess patients’ own preferences and their responses to a doctor's use of different labels through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of doctor–patient interactions in a realistic clinical setting. We also examine whether two sub-groups of patients—those with epileptic seizures and those with (psychogenic) non-epileptic seizures—show different behaviours in this respect. Our findings suggest first that patients make fine lexical distinctions between the various diagnostic labels they use to describe their seizure experiences; secondly, that patients play an active role in the development and application of labels for their medical complaint; and thirdly, that attention to patients’ lexical choices and interactive use or avoidance of labels can be relevant for the differential diagnosis of seizures.


06:36:02: English in Advertising: Generic Intertextuality in a Globalizing Media Environment

Across the globe, the use of English is a popular advertising technique. The ever expanding body of studies on this topic has revealed a number of explanations for the use of English in the advertising. It can be related to the larger marketing strategy of a campaign, to the cultural connotations English carries, or English can be used for creative-linguistic reasons. The current article, however, will present an analysis of four examples of advertisements in which English is used for reasons that have not been discussed in the scholarly literature so far. More specifically, in these advertisements, which intertextually refer to a range of British and American media genres, specific registers of English are used to mark the generic intertextuality of the ads. The analysis, I believe, sheds new light on the use of English in the media, and more particularly on issues such as viewers’ agency and linguistic superiority.


06:36:02: A Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Comprehension of wh-Questions by Korean Learners of English

Previous studies on English as a second language (L2) argue for the relative ease of object wh-questions based on the finding that L2 learners are more accurate and faster in judging the grammaticality of object wh-questions than that of subject wh-questions in English. This article re-examines this claim by investigating L2 learners’ comprehension of long-distance wh-questions at different stages of English acquisition. A total of 113 Korean-speaking learners of English with different years of English instruction participated in a picture-based comprehension task. Contrary to previous studies, the results of the present study point toward a strong preference for subject wh-questions to object wh-questions. The learners were more accurate and improved faster in subject wh-questions than in object wh-questions. In addition, they showed a strong tendency to interpret object wh-questions as subject wh-questions. These results are in line with distance-based accounts of processing complexity. Subject wh-questions are easier to process because the distance between the wh-word and the gap is shorter and therefore poses less burden on working memory in subject wh-questions than in object wh-questions.


06:36:02: F. Christie and J. Martin (eds): Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives.

06:36:02: S. Makoni and A. Pennycook (eds): Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages.

06:36:02: Alison Wray: Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries.

06:36:02: Ruth Wodak, Rudolf de Cillia, Martin Reisigl and Karin Liebhart: The Discursive Construction of National Identity. Second Edition. Transl. by Angelika Hirsch, Richard Mitten and J. W. Unger.

06:36:02: Notes on Contributors

Applied Linguistics - recent issues

06:36:02: Textual Appropriation and Citing Behaviors of University Undergraduates

This article explores the citing behaviors of 16 undergraduates in a North American university. After completing a research paper for their disciplinary courses, each participating student was interviewed to identify in his/her writing words and ideas borrowed from source texts and to explain why and how the relevant texts were appropriated with or without citations. Analysis of students’ writing and comments illustrates how they relied on source texts for various aspects of their essays, some of which they believed required citations while some of which did not. Results showed that they tried to strike a balance between the need to cite published authors to gain credit for the scholarly quality of their writing and the desire to establish their own voice by limiting the extent to which they cited other texts. Some students also reported how they chose between quoting and paraphrasing (though the latter sometimes contained direct copying) on the basis of their ability to rephrase other's words and their understanding of the different roles played by the two. The study indicates the degree to which citational acts are discursive markings of learning and knowledge construction.


06:36:02: Practices of Other-Initiated Repair in the Classrooms of Children with Specific Speech and Language Difficulties

Repair practices used by teachers who work with children with specific speech and language difficulties (SSLDs) have hitherto remained largely unexplored. Such classrooms therefore offer a new context for researching repairs and considering how they compare with non-SSLD interactions. Repair trajectories are of interest because they are dialogic sites where the child's meaning is being negotiated and, therefore, where adults might create opportunities for language learning. The interactions take place during activities, such as story writing, where teachers elicit children's ideas and orient to their lack of clarity. From a data set of 78 cases, four significant patterns of teacher repair initiation emerged. First, non-specific repair initiators (RIs), such as ‘say that again’, target any aspect of the prior turn and reveal the adult's lack of grasp of its content. Next, specific RIs (‘she has’) that are constructed with minimal components of the child's turn, pinpoint the location of the trouble but provide no new lexical information. In contrast, specific RIs that are constructed as ‘wh’ questions (‘down where’), target the nature of the trouble and elicit further information. Finally, offers of candidates (‘do you mean X’) do provide new models of lexis but do not elicit repetition from the child.


06:36:02: Style Shifts among Japanese Learners before and after Study Abroad in Japan: Becoming Active Social Agents in Japanese

Previous studies on L2 Japanese sojourners often reported that learners overuse the plain style or haphazardly mix the plain and polite styles upon return. These styles, which are often associated with formal or informal contexts, also index complex social and situational meanings, and native speakers are reported to shift their styles to create desired contexts. In order to better understand L2 development of the use of the plain and polite styles during study abroad, the current study examined the use of the polite/plain styles and style shifts among five English-speaking male students who studied in Japan for one academic year by comparing their performances both quantitatively and qualitatively in oral proficiency interviews before and after they studied abroad. Upon return, three predominantly used the polite style talking to the interviewer (their former teacher), while two primarily used the plain style. Though the quantitative analysis may lead one to conclude that these two students regressed in their pragmatic competence, the qualitative analysis revealed that all five learners gained some understanding of social meanings of the plain and polite styles and became more active social agents who make decisions to shift the styles.


06:36:02: The Relationship between Applied Linguistic Research and Language Policy for Bilingual Education

Currently, restrictive-language policies seem to threaten bilingual education throughout the USA. Anti-bilingual education initiatives have passed easily in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts, while one was closely defeated in Colorado, and federal education policy has re-invigorated the focus on English education for English language learners, while concomitantly obfuscating the possibility of native language maintenance and developmental bilingual education. This is the educational landscape within which bilingual education researchers, educators, and students must face the formidable challenge of preserving educational choice and bilingual education. Thus, substantive research is needed on how bilingual educators navigate this challenging ideological and policy landscape. Based on an ethnographic study of bilingual education language policy, this article takes up this challenge by focusing on how beliefs about Applied Linguistics research influence the interpretation and appropriation of federal language policy in one US school district. The results have implications for the relationship between the Applied Linguistic research community and language policy processes.


06:36:02: Seizure, Fit or Attack? The Use of Diagnostic Labels by Patients with Epileptic or Non-epileptic Seizures

We present an analysis of the use of diagnostic labels such as seizure, attack, fit, and blackout by patients who experience seizures. While previous research on patients’ preferences for diagnostic terminology has relied on questionnaires, we assess patients’ own preferences and their responses to a doctor's use of different labels through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of doctor–patient interactions in a realistic clinical setting. We also examine whether two sub-groups of patients—those with epileptic seizures and those with (psychogenic) non-epileptic seizures—show different behaviours in this respect. Our findings suggest first that patients make fine lexical distinctions between the various diagnostic labels they use to describe their seizure experiences; secondly, that patients play an active role in the development and application of labels for their medical complaint; and thirdly, that attention to patients’ lexical choices and interactive use or avoidance of labels can be relevant for the differential diagnosis of seizures.


06:36:02: English in Advertising: Generic Intertextuality in a Globalizing Media Environment

Across the globe, the use of English is a popular advertising technique. The ever expanding body of studies on this topic has revealed a number of explanations for the use of English in the advertising. It can be related to the larger marketing strategy of a campaign, to the cultural connotations English carries, or English can be used for creative-linguistic reasons. The current article, however, will present an analysis of four examples of advertisements in which English is used for reasons that have not been discussed in the scholarly literature so far. More specifically, in these advertisements, which intertextually refer to a range of British and American media genres, specific registers of English are used to mark the generic intertextuality of the ads. The analysis, I believe, sheds new light on the use of English in the media, and more particularly on issues such as viewers’ agency and linguistic superiority.


06:36:02: A Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Comprehension of wh-Questions by Korean Learners of English

Previous studies on English as a second language (L2) argue for the relative ease of object wh-questions based on the finding that L2 learners are more accurate and faster in judging the grammaticality of object wh-questions than that of subject wh-questions in English. This article re-examines this claim by investigating L2 learners’ comprehension of long-distance wh-questions at different stages of English acquisition. A total of 113 Korean-speaking learners of English with different years of English instruction participated in a picture-based comprehension task. Contrary to previous studies, the results of the present study point toward a strong preference for subject wh-questions to object wh-questions. The learners were more accurate and improved faster in subject wh-questions than in object wh-questions. In addition, they showed a strong tendency to interpret object wh-questions as subject wh-questions. These results are in line with distance-based accounts of processing complexity. Subject wh-questions are easier to process because the distance between the wh-word and the gap is shorter and therefore poses less burden on working memory in subject wh-questions than in object wh-questions.


06:36:02: F. Christie and J. Martin (eds): Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives.

06:36:02: S. Makoni and A. Pennycook (eds): Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages.

06:36:02: Alison Wray: Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries.

06:36:02: Ruth Wodak, Rudolf de Cillia, Martin Reisigl and Karin Liebhart: The Discursive Construction of National Identity. Second Edition. Transl. by Angelika Hirsch, Richard Mitten and J. W. Unger.

06:36:02: Notes on Contributors

The LINGUIST List: Books

02:09:44: Books: De l'épreuve autobiographique: Baudouin

02:02:08: Books: Arabic Rhetoric: Hatim

01:57:30: Books: Enseigner les structures langagières en FLE: Galatanu, Pierrard, Van Raemdonck, Damar, Kemps, Schoonheere (Eds)

01:41:45: Books: Migraciones y formación docente: Pozzo (Ed)

01:38:07: Books: Begegnungen: Käsermann

2010-02-01

The LINGUIST List: Confs

19:09:37: Confs: Georgia Tech Arabic LBAT Summer Study Abroad

18:04:47: Confs: Stuci contrastivi slavo-romanzi

The LINGUIST List: Books

02:24:43: Books: Bestandsaufnahme der Germanistik in Spanien: Rodal (Ed)

02:22:09: Books: Pour une linguistique applicable: Damar

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

00:27:35: Jobs: Computational Phonology: Post Doc, The Ohio State University, USA

2010-01-30

The LINGUIST List: Review

15:10:36: Review: Rethinking Idiomaticity

The LINGUIST List: Diss

06:37:01: Diss: Extramural English Matters: Out-of-school English and its impact on Swedish ninth graders' oral proficiency and vocabulary

2010-01-29

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

21:03:15: Jobs: General Linguistics: Assistant Professor or Higher, Birzeit University, West Bank

The LINGUIST List: Confs

16:54:11: Confs: Greek Language in Pontus: Romeyka in contemporary Trebizond

16:08:25: Confs: International Postgrad Conference in Translation and Interpreting

16:05:35: Confs: Languages and International Business

16:00:11: Confs: Henry Sweet Society Annual Colloquium

15:08:15: Confs: IV Congreso Internacional

The LINGUIST List: Qs

03:33:06: Qs: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Corpus

2010-01-28

The LINGUIST List: Review

20:26:03: Review: The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

19:43:37: Jobs: Language Technology: Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands

19:39:35: Jobs: Multimedia and Multimodality Resources and Technology: Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands

The LINGUIST List: Qs

18:06:12: Qs: Pro-Drop Languages: pro vs. PRO

The LINGUIST List: TOC

17:26:22: TOC: Computational Linguistics Vol 35, No 4 (2009)

17:23:05: TOC: English World-Wide Vol 31, No 1 (2010)

17:20:26: TOC: Translation and Interpreting Studies Vol 4, No 2 (2009)

17:10:52: TOC: Language & Communication Vol 30, No 1 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Review

06:04:59: Review: The Primer of Humor Research

Georgetown University

05:00:00: Obama is 'Somber' but 'Dynamic' in Speeches, Analyst Says: CNN

2010-01-27

The LINGUIST List: Confs

20:28:33: Confs: Third LREC Workshop on Emotion

20:25:21: Confs: CLIL in Subject Integrated Curriculum

The LINGUIST List: TOC

18:05:42: TOC: Neue Romania No 39 (2009)

18:02:44: TOC: Linguistic Inquiry Vol 41, No 1 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: All

15:52:15: All: Obituary: Professor Alberto Zamboni (1941-2010)

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

05:00:00: Jobs: Descriptive Linguistics; Sociolinguistics: Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Western Australia

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2010-01-26

The LINGUIST List: FYI

22:19:00: FYI: ISO 639-3 2009 Series Change Request Outcomes Announced

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

18:02:29: Jobs: Language Sciences: Post Doc, University of Rochester, New York, USA

17:29:47: Jobs: German; Luxembourg Studies: Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

The LINGUIST List: Confs

16:47:17: Confs: 20th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

The LINGUIST List: Review

13:38:02: Review: Actos de habla y cortesía en español (Speech Acts and Politeness in Spanish)

2010-01-25

The LINGUIST List: Support

20:19:16: Support: Neuroscience, Language and Communication: MA / MSc Student, University College London

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

18:13:59: Jobs: Applied Linguistics: Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut State University, CT, USA

The LINGUIST List: FYI

17:43:57: FYI: Call for Chapter Proposals: Computational Science and Engineering

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

17:29:19: Jobs: English & Lexicography, Speech Technology: Consultant, Toshiba Research, United Kingdom, Cambridge

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

The LINGUIST List: Review

05:30:06: Review: Diachronic Change in the English Passive

2010-01-24

The LINGUIST List: FYI

19:03:53: FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Computer-Mediated Communication in Africa

The LINGUIST List: TOC

18:13:50: TOC: PhiN. Philologie im Netz Vol 51, No 2010 (2010)

The LINGUIST List: Qs

04:51:59: Qs: Source of 'Monolingualism is Curable' Quote

2010-01-23

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

14:30:40: Jobs: English; German, Standard; Polish & Indo-European & Computational Linguist: Manager/Senior Computational Linguist, SpeechConcept GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

The LINGUIST List: FYI

03:33:06: FYI: Public Release: Haitian Creole Lang Data, Carnegie Mellon

2010-01-22

The LINGUIST List: Support

19:14:27: Support: General Linguistics: PhD Student, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

18:00:11: Jobs: Speech and Language Disorders: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

15:17:12: Jobs: French; German, Standard; Turkish; Spanish; Italian & General Linguistics, Phonetics: Consultant, Gracenote

The LINGUIST List: Review

14:39:14: Review: Productivity in English Word-formation

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

14:31:41: Jobs: Arabic Language Pedagogy or Linguistics: Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, OK, USA

2010-01-21

The LINGUIST List: Review

19:54:18: Review: The Oxford Handbook of Compounding

The LINGUIST List: Jobs

19:26:56: Jobs: Spanish & Hispanic Studies: Lecturer, University of Sheffield, England

19:22:24: Jobs: General Linguistics: Researcher, The University of Hong Kong

The LINGUIST List: TOC

01:41:29: TOC: Journal of Applied Language Studies (Apples) Vol 3, No 1 (2009)

2010-01-20

The LINGUIST List: Qs

21:46:20: Qs: The World in a Shell: Request for Assistance

The LINGUIST List: FYI

17:05:52: FYI: Postdoctoral Fellowship: de Vincenzi Foundation

17:00:48: FYI: New: Journal of Philology: Uralo-Altaic Studies

The LINGUIST List: Review

16:29:33: Review: Tiempos compuestos y formas verbales complejas

2010-01-19

The LINGUIST List: Support

20:17:09: Support: Language Technology: 2 PhD Students, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The LINGUIST List: TOC

20:08:22: TOC: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Vol 27, No 4 (2009)

20:06:08: TOC: Neohelicon Vol 36, No 2 (2009)

20:02:39: TOC: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Vol 27, No 3 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: All

15:58:43: All: Follow LINGUIST on Twitter

2010-01-18

The LINGUIST List: FYI

18:04:03: FYI: Second Call for Papers: Arizona Working Papers

The LINGUIST List: TOC

17:37:26: TOC: Neohelicon Vol 36, No 1 (2009)

17:33:25: TOC: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Vol 27, No 2 (2009)

17:31:06: TOC: Research on Language and Computation Vol 7, No 1 (2009)

17:28:48: TOC: Linguistics and Philosophy Vol 32, No 2 (2009)

17:19:10: TOC: Linguistics and Philosophy Vol 32, No 1 (2009)

2010-01-17

The LINGUIST List: All

22:33:32: All: Obituary: Samuel E. Martin

The LINGUIST List: Review

21:39:35: Review: Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic: Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco

The LINGUIST List: FYI

21:33:10: FYI: New MA Program: Computational Linguistics, Brandeis Uni

21:27:22: FYI: Now Online: WATESOL NNEST Caucus Annual Review

The LINGUIST List: TOC

04:24:19: TOC: Russian Linguistics Vol 33, No 2 (2009)

04:21:24: TOC: Language Resources and Evaluation Vol 43, No 2 (2009)

04:17:34: TOC: Linguistics and Philosophy Vol 32, No 3 (2009)

04:15:04: TOC: Language Resources and Evaluation Vol 43, No 4 (2009)

04:11:13: TOC: Language Resources and Evaluation Vol 43, No 3 (2009)

The LINGUIST List: Diss

00:22:28: Diss: Culture-Specific Differences in Polite Speech Acts in Ukrainian and American English: Wishes, greetings and complaints

00:18:50: Diss: Antisymmetry and the Conservation of C-command: Scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective

00:16:09: Diss: Perception and Acquisition of Second Language Phonology

2010-01-16

The LINGUIST List: FYI

02:58:11: FYI: Second Call for Proposals: EURO-XPRAG

02:52:24: FYI: New Website: Int'l Institute for Lang and Cultures, Morocco

02:46:47: FYI: Final Call for Participation: NACLO 2010

2010-01-15

The LINGUIST List: Review

17:20:09: Review: A Grammar of Mongsen Ao

16:16:09: Review: Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable

The LINGUIST List: Qs

15:22:01: Qs: Betting Constructions Questionnaire

The LINGUIST List: Review

04:08:07: Review: The Sitcom ‘Friends’ vs. Natural Conversation

2010-01-14

The LINGUIST List: Review

16:54:01: Review: Language Management

The LINGUIST List: Diss

16:32:05: Diss: The Mauritian Creole Noun Phrase: Its form and function

16:27:09: Diss: Texas Alsatian: Henri Castro's legacy

15:56:35: Diss: The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective

15:50:12: Diss: German Compound Nouns and their Polish Equivalents: Automatic extraction, analysis and verification based on parallel corpora

15:47:25: Diss: Teachers' Reactions to Foreign Language Learner Output

15:43:02: Diss: La Lingüística de Corpus y El Análisis Gramatical del Español: Propuesta de tratamiento de las preposiciones del español como especificadores semánticos

15:39:56: Diss: Syntactic Development in the Second Language Acquisition of French by Instructed English Learners

The LINGUIST List: Review

05:51:39: Review: Bilingual First Language Acquisition

The LINGUIST List: Support

01:10:36: Support: Italian Syntax and Dialectology: 2 PhD Students, Leiden University/LUCL, Netherlands

2010-01-13

The LINGUIST List: FYI

19:22:06: FYI: Call for Tutorials: SIGIR 2010

19:19:18: FYI: Call for Workshop Proposals: SIGIR 2010

19:14:37: FYI: New: Journal of Ling and Lang Learning

The LINGUIST List: Qs

17:20:19: Qs: Adjectival Neutralisation Study

The LINGUIST List: Support

17:10:34: Support: Syntax, Semantics: Phd Student, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2010-01-12

The LINGUIST List: FYI

16:56:16: FYI: Call for Workshop Proposals: IEEE ICSC 2010

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2010-01-11

The LINGUIST List: Qs

18:18:40: Qs: Language Academies Studies

The LINGUIST List: Support

16:53:38: Support: Persian, Swedish & Syntax, Semantics: PhD Student, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2010-01-09

The LINGUIST List: Diss

13:57:08: Diss: Contribution à l'étude systématique de l'organisation des tours de parole : Les chevauchements en français et en allemand [Contribution to the systematic study of turn organization: Overlaps in French and German]

The LINGUIST List: All

13:31:09: All: Obituary: Charles Ruhl

2010-01-07

The LINGUIST List: Review

17:17:21: Review: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

The LINGUIST List: Qs

16:24:44: Qs: German Native Speakers for Survey re: Loan Verbs

The LINGUIST List: Review

15:38:41: Review: Email Hoaxes: Form, Function, Genre Ecology

The LINGUIST List: Qs

05:50:43: Qs: Japanese and English Corpora Research

2010-01-05

The LINGUIST List: Review

23:38:16: Review: Discourse and Power

23:30:39: Review: Bengali-English in East London

The LINGUIST List: Diss

17:50:47: Diss: Modelling Variation in Singapore English

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

Georgetown University

05:00:00: 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.

2010-01-04

The LINGUIST List: Review

23:06:59: Review: The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation

The LINGUIST List: All

16:49:29: All: Obituary: Donald Steinmetz, 1938-2009

16:09:57: All: LINGUIST Resumes Operations & Posting; Visit Us at LSA 2010!

2009-12-21

The LINGUIST List: Qs

20:50:47: Qs: Seeking Middle Construction Corpora

The LINGUIST List: Review

20:39:34: Review: Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems

The LINGUIST List: Support

20:04:25: Support: General Linguistics: MA / MSc Student, Cardiff University

The LINGUIST List: Qs

19:25:04: Qs: Semantics of Rationale Clauses

The LINGUIST List: Support

03:56:28: Support: Syntax, Lexicon-syntax-semantics Interface: PhD Student, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain

The LINGUIST List: Qs

03:34:46: Qs: Slavic Verbs of Motion

03:32:50: Qs: Studies on Koineization

03:28:31: Qs: Query on Structural Properties and Corpora

2009-12-20

The LINGUIST List: Review

20:53:58: Review: The Languages of Africa and the Diaspora: Educating for Language Awareness

The LINGUIST List: Support

02:13:24: Support: Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

2009-12-19

The LINGUIST List: Qs

03:27:36: Qs: Online Navajo Language Survey

2009-12-18

The LINGUIST List: Support

18:37:27: Support: General Linguistics: PhD Student, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Applied Linguistics - recent issues

13:33:55: Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Acquisition

13:33:55: The Differential Effects of Three Types of Task Planning on the Fluency, Complexity, and Accuracy in L2 Oral Production

The main purpose of this article is to review studies that have investigated the effects of three types of planning (rehearsal, pre-task planning, and within-task planning) on the fluency, complexity, and accuracy of L2 performance. All three types of planning have been shown to have a beneficial effect on fluency but the results for complexity and accuracy are more mixed, reflecting both the type of planning and also the mediating role of various factors, including task design and implementation variables and individual difference factors. A secondary purpose is to outline a theory that can account for the role that planning plays in L2 performance. The article concludes with a list of limitations in the research to date.


13:33:55: Modelling Second Language Performance: Integrating Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Lexis

Complexity, accuracy, and fluency have proved useful measures of second language performance. The present article will re-examine these measures themselves, arguing that fluency needs to be rethought if it is to be measured effectively, and that the three general measures need to be supplemented by measures of lexical use. Building upon this discussion, generalizations are reviewed which focus on inter-relationships between the measures, especially between accuracy and complexity, since positive correlations between these two areas have been less common in the literature. Some examples of accuracy–complexity correlations are reviewed. The central issue here is how to account for these correlations, and so the discussion explores rival claims from the Cognition and Trade-off Hypotheses. It is argued that such joint raised performance between accuracy and complexity is not a function of task difficulty, as the Cognition Hypothesis would predict, but that instead it reflects the joint operation of separate task and task condition factors. Extending the theoretical discussion, connection is made with the Levelt model of first language speaking, and it is proposed that the results obtained in the task-based performance literature can be linked to this model, modified to take account of differences between first and second language processing, particularly as these stem from differences in the underlying mental lexicons.


13:33:55: Time and Motion: Measuring the Effects of the Conceptual Demands of Tasks on Second Language Speech Production

The Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson 2005) claims that pedagogic tasks should be sequenced for learners in an order of increasing cognitive complexity, and that along resource-directing dimensions of task demands increasing effort at conceptualization promotes more complex and grammaticized second language (L2) speech production. This article summarizes results of two studies that measured the effects of increasing the complexity of task demands in conceptual domains using specific measures of the accuracy and complexity of speech. These measures are motivated by research into the development of tense–aspect morphology when referring to time (Shirai 2002), and by typological, cross-linguistic research into using lexicalization patterns when referring to motion (Cadierno 2008). Results show there is more developmentally advanced use of tense–aspect morphology on conceptually demanding tasks compared with less demanding tasks, and a trend to more target-like-use of lexicalization patterns for referring to motion on complex tasks.


13:33:55: Towards an Organic Approach to Investigating CAF in Instructed SLA: The Case of Complexity

In this article, we examine current practices in the measurement of syntactic complexity to illustrate the need for more organic and sustainable practices in the measurement of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) in second language production. Through in-depth review of examples drawn from research on instructed second language acquisition, we identify and discuss challenges to the evidentiary logic that underlies current approaches. We also illuminate critical mismatches between the interpretations that researchers want to make and the complexity measures that they use to make them. Building from the case of complexity, we point to related concerns with impoverished operationalizations of multidimensional CAF constructs and the lack of attention to CAF as a dynamic and interrelated set of constantly changing subsystems. In conclusion, we offer suggestions for addressing these challenges, and we call for much closer articulation between theory and measurement as well as more central roles for multidimensionality and dynamicity in future CAF research.


13:33:55: Adjusting Expectations: The Study of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Acquisition

It is a good practice to try to understand matters at hand by first stepping back and adopting an historical perspective, which I will begin this review by doing. Next, I will take up the challenges that each of the authors in the articles in this volume has presented for the study of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) in second language acquisition. Finally, I will conclude by issuing a few challenges of my own, along with proposing a broader frame in which to situate the study of CAF.


13:33:55: CAF: Defining, Refining and Differentiating Constructs

This article critically scrutinizes a number of issues involved in the definition and operationalization of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) constructs. It argues for maintaining clearer distinctions between CAF, on the one hand, and notions such as linguistic development and communicative adequacy, on the other. Adequacy, in particular, should be considered both as a separate performance dimension and as a way of interpreting CAF measures.


13:33:55: 'To mediate relevantly': a response to James Simpson

In Waters (2009), it was contended that, because of its ideological orientation, a good deal of applied linguistics for language teaching (ALLT) fails to ‘mediate relevantly’ between academic and practitioner perspectives. James Simpson’s rejoinder to my article (Simpson 2009) attempts to refute its claims. However, in my view, it fails to do so, and, in the process, provides a further illustration of the problem. This occurs because a language teaching approach developed in one type of English Language Teaching (ELT) situation is presented as if of relevance to the field as a whole, and a number of its major limitations are not acknowledged. How this is the case is explained and the implications for ALLT in general are also considered.


13:33:55: Miyako Inoue: Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan.

13:33:55: Michele Koven: Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals' Verbal Enactments of Identity in French and Portuguese.

13:33:55: Frances Rock: Communicating Rights. The Language of Arrest and Detention.

13:33:55: Andrew D. Cohen and Ernesto Macaro: Language Learner Strategies: Thirty Years of Research and Practice.

13:33:55: Notes on Contributors

2009-12-17

The LINGUIST List: Review

23:05:48: Review: Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction

The LINGUIST List: Support

18:25:00: Support: English, French, Spanish & General Linguistics, ESL: MA / MSc Student, Syracuse University, USA

02:14:25: Support: Catalonian Sign Language, Deaf Sign Language & Sign Linguistics, Syntax: PhD Student, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

2009-12-16

The LINGUIST List: Review

15:22:45: Review: Linguistics: An Introduction

12:42:10: Review: Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa

The LINGUIST List: Support

00:04:17: Support: Basque, Spanish & Psycholinguistics, Syntax: PhD Student, University Of The Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2009-12-15

The LINGUIST List: Diss

19:04:03: Diss: Projecting Subjects in Spanish and English

18:55:31: Diss: Lexical Base of Ukrainian Language: Selection and System-Structural Organization

The LINGUIST List: Qs

17:57:37: Qs: Sources for Mandarin Research

The LINGUIST List: Review

13:54:28: Review: The Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Interdisciplinary Approaches

2009-12-14

The LINGUIST List: All

14:23:42: All: LINGUIST List Holiday Break

2009-12-13

The LINGUIST List: Diss

17:46:55: Diss: The Nature of Syntactic Gender Processing in Spanish: An ERP study

17:43:08: Diss: Intonational and Durational Contributions to the Perception of Foreign-accented Norwegian: An experimental phonetic investigation

2009-12-12

The LINGUIST List: Review

20:47:50: Review: Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable

14:31:26: Review: The Handbook of World Englishes

The LINGUIST List: Support

03:30:46: Support: Foreign Language Perception, Production: PhD Student, Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York, USA

2009-12-11

The LINGUIST List: Support

03:05:39: Support: Speech Language and Cognition: Open Student, University College London, UK, United Kingdom

2009-12-10

The LINGUIST List: Diss

18:51:23: Diss: A Reconstruction of Proto Northern Chin in Old Burmese and Old Chinese Perspective

18:46:46: Diss: 'Jezyk czatu internetowego: Studium Empiryczne' / 'The Language of Internet Chat Room: An Empirical Study'

2009-12-09

The LINGUIST List: Support

18:39:20: Support: General Linguistics: PhD Student, University College London, England

The LINGUIST List: Qs

18:22:36: Qs: Adolescent Electronic Communication and Literacy

16:59:43: Qs: Articles about Lack/Paucity of Publication in ELT

2009-12-08

The LINGUIST List: Diss

19:20:13: Diss: 'Arbeitszeitmodelle': Linguistische Analyse eines Makrotextes der Zeitschrift 'management & seminar'

19:10:35: Diss: Les Localisateurs Dans Les Constructions Existentielles: Approche comparée en espagnol, en français et en italien

19:07:09: Diss: Phrasal Subconstructions: A constructionalist grammar design, exemplified with Norwegian and English

19:03:58: Diss: The Development of Tone in Panjabi as Evidenced in the Poetic Alliteration Patterns

The LINGUIST List: Qs

04:15:02: Qs: Incorporation and Conversion in Malayo-Polynesian

The LINGUIST List: Support

03:57:01: Support: Text/Corpus Linguistics, Remote Research Assistance: Open Student, UMass, Amherst, USA

2009-12-07

The LINGUIST List: Diss

21:07:02: Diss: Corpus Numériques et Production Écrite en Langue Étrangère: Une recherche avec des apprenants d'allemand

21:02:48: Diss: Articulating a Transnational Family: 'Hippo family' language learners in Japan and the USA

2009-12-05

The LINGUIST List: Diss

00:19:17: Diss: Everyday Genres and the Location of Culture

2009-12-04

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-12-03

The LINGUIST List: All

14:45:37: All: Obituary: Ben Elson

2009-12-02

The LINGUIST List: All

20:32:58: All: Obituary: Samuel E. Martin

2009-12-01

The LINGUIST List: Qs

17:02:01: Qs: Colloquial Speech and Slang in L2 Acquisition

2009-11-30

The LINGUIST List: Diss

01:39:30: Diss: Wh-quantification in Vietnamese

2009-11-28

The LINGUIST List: Qs

01:10:18: Qs: Searching for Bowerman (1989) Paper

2009-11-24

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

Georgetown University

05:00:00: National Security Advisors Recall Communism's Fall
Georgetown marks 20th anniversary of the fall of communism with conversations from Zbiginew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft.

2009-11-23

The LINGUIST List: Qs

21:06:40: Qs: Modified: Word Association Questionnaire (English)

21:04:56: Qs: Pragmatics of interaction in Second Life

2009-11-21

The LINGUIST List: Qs

21:58:51: Qs: Word Association Questionnaire

2009-11-18

The LINGUIST List: Qs

20:51:36: Qs: Source for 'Mapping' Definition

15:26:33: Qs: Participants for a Perception Survey Wanted

2009-11-17

The LINGUIST List: Support

20:07:49: Support: General Linguistics, Ling & Literature: 2 PhD Students, LMU München, Germany

The LINGUIST List: Qs

19:51:26: Qs: Consonant-generated Disharmonic Domains

The LINGUIST List: All

17:44:03: All: Obituary: Dell H. Hymes

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

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

2009-11-16

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-11-15

The LINGUIST List: Support

17:05:25: Support: Spanish & Hispanic Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2009-11-13

The LINGUIST List: All

20:57:21: All: Obituary: Helen Madrid

2009-11-12

The LINGUIST List: Qs

18:03:02: Qs: British English Native Speakers Wanted

2009-11-10

The LINGUIST List: Support

19:53:23: Support: English & English Morphology: PhD Student, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

The LINGUIST List: Qs

14:47:22: Qs: Linguistic Strategies for Measure Phrase Readings

2009-11-05

The LINGUIST List: All

19:24:47: All: NEW Website: GOLD Community Portal

The LINGUIST List: Support

17:17:39: Support: Spanish & Spanish Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Texas, Austin, USA

2009-11-04

The LINGUIST List: Support

18:23:16: Support: French & General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of California, Davis, USA

2009-11-03

The LINGUIST List: Support

19:17:23: Support: Swahili & Language Documentation: Open Student, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

2009-10-29

The LINGUIST List: Support

22:55:23: Support: French & Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Illinois, USA

21:28:41: Support: Second Language Acquisition: 4 PhD Students, University of Iowa, USA

20:08:24: Support: General Linguistics: Three PhD Students, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

Georgetown University

07:00:00: Innovation Focus of Faculty Convocation
Fall Faculty Convocation explores what learning will look like in the 21st century and beyond.

2009-10-28

The LINGUIST List: Support

19:37:31: Support: French & French Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin, USA

2009-10-26

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2009-10-21

Georgetown University

06:00:00: Newsmakers: Oct. 21, 2009
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.

2009-10-20

The LINGUIST List: Support

19:51:15: Support: Pragmatics, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Acquisition: PhD Student, State University of New York, USA

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-10-14

The LINGUIST List: All

20:54:18: All: Obituary: Thomas M. Hess

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-10-08

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

2009-10-07

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

2009-09-30

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

The LINGUIST List: All

16:14:22: All: LINGUIST Book Reviews Team Moves to U of Wisconsin-Madison

2009-09-29

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-09-28

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2009-09-27

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

2009-09-24

The LINGUIST List: Sum

18:28:32: Sum: Language Maps

2009-09-21

Applied Linguistics - recent issues

15:31:26: Topic Negotiation in Peer Group Oral Assessment Situations: A Conversation Analytic Approach

This study examines the production of topical talk in peer collaborative negotiation in an interactive assessment innovation context. The ability to stay on topic, to move from topic to topic and to introduce new topics appropriately is at the core of communicative competence. Applying conversation analysis (CA), we describe and analyze how one group of secondary ESL students orient to and construct what they take to be relevant to the assessment task as interaction proceeds. We found that in the context of group oral discussion described in our study, in the course of turn-by-turn interaction which was characterized by intensive engagement and active participation between peer participants, this group of students were able to pursue, develop, and shift topics to, on the one hand, ensure the successful completion of the assigned task, and on the other, to display individual contributions. Topical transitions appeared to be the result of participants constantly monitoring the content of talk for relevance to the assessment task agenda. Such negotiation of topical talk among the participants indicates that peer group discussion as an oral assessment format has the potential to provide opportunities for students to demonstrate ‘real-life’ interactional abilities to relate to each other in spoken interaction.


15:31:26: Constructing another Language--Usage-Based Linguistics in Second Language Acquisition

The general aim of this article is to discuss the application of Usage-Based Linguistics (UBL) to an investigation of developmental issues in second language acquisition (SLA). Particularly, the aim is to discuss the relevance for SLA of the UBL suggestion that language learning is item-based, going from formulas via low-scope patterns to fully abstract constructions. This paper examines how well this suggested path of acquisition serves ‘as a default in guiding the investigation of the ways in which exemplars and their type and token frequencies determine the second language acquisition of structure’ (N. Ellis 2002: 170). As such, it builds on and further discusses the findings in Bardovi-Harlig (2002) and Eskildsen and Cadierno (2007). The empirical point of departure is longitudinal oral second language classroom interaction and the focal point is the use of can by one student in the class in question. The data reveal the formulas, here operationalized as recurring multiword expressions, to be situated in recurring usage events, suggesting the need for a fine-tuning of the UBL theory for the purposes of SLA research towards a more locally contextualized theory of language acquisition and use. The data also suggest that semi-fixed linguistic patterns, here operationalized as utterance schemas, deserve a prominent place in L2 developmental research.


15:31:26: English Language Teachers' Conceptions of Research

This article examines the conceptions of research held by 505 teachers of English from 13 countries around the world. Questionnaire responses supplemented by follow-up written and interview data were analyzed to understand teachers’ views on what research is and how often they read and do it (and why or why not in each case). An understanding of these issues is central to the development of informed policies for promoting teacher research engagement, but relevant systematic evidence is lacking in the field of English language teaching (ELT). The study shows that the teachers held conceptions of research aligned with conventional scientific notions of inquiry. The teachers also reported moderate to low levels of reading and doing research, with a lack of time, knowledge, and access to material emerging as key factors which teachers felt limited their ability to be research-engaged. Teachers engaged in research reported being driven largely by practical and professional concerns rather than external drivers such as employers or promotion. Overall, the findings of this study point to a number of attitudinal, conceptual, procedural, and institutional barriers to teacher research engagement. Understanding these, it is argued here, is an essential part of the broader process of trying to address them and hence to make teacher research engagement a more feasible activity in ELT.


15:31:26: The Three Circles Redux: A Market-Theoretic Perspective on World Englishes

While Kachru's Three Circles model of World Englishes (Kachru 1985, 1986; Kachru and Nelson 1996) has been highly influential in highlighting the changing distribution and functions of English, it has also been criticized for its inability to account for the heterogeneity and dynamics of English-using communities, and for perpetuating the very inequalities and dichotomies that it aims to combat. By combining Bourdieu's (1984, 1986, 1990) notion of linguistic markets with the insights of the model's critics, this article deconstructs the Three Circles model by reinterpreting it as a model for the system of ideological forces that delimit local creativity and utility of English in the world. Such a reinterpretation can be a useful way of explicating the performativity of English in different sociolinguistic communities around the world, foregrounding dominant assumptions about the prevailing structure of the global linguistic market.


15:31:26: The Lexical Coverage of Movies

The scripts of 318 movies were analyzed in this study to determine the vocabulary size necessary to understand 95% and 98% of the words in movies. The movies consisted of 2,841,887 running words and had a total running time of 601 hours and 33 minutes. The movies were classified as either American or British, and then put into the following genres: action, animation, comedy, suspense/crime, drama, horror, romance, science fiction, war, western, and classic. The results showed that knowledge of the most frequent 3,000 word families plus proper nouns and marginal words provided 95.76% coverage, and knowledge of the most frequent 6,000 word families plus proper nouns and marginal words provided 98.15% coverage of movies. Both American and British movies reached 95% coverage at the 3,000 word level. However, American movies reached 98% coverage at the 6,000 word level while British movies reached 98% coverage at the 7,000 word level. The vocabulary size necessary to reach 95% coverage of the different genres ranged from 3,000 to 4,000 word families plus proper nouns and marginal words, and 5,000 to 10,000 word families plus proper nouns and marginal words to reach 98% coverage. The implications for teaching and learning with movies are discussed in detail.


15:31:26: A Critical Stance in Language Education: A Reply to Alan Waters

In his recent Forum article on ideology in applied linguistics, Alan Waters (2009) takes up arms against what he perceives as a damaging critical tendency. Ideas about language teaching, he claims, are promoted (e.g. learner centredness) or proscribed (e.g. artificial texts) ‘on the basis of ideological belief rather than pedagogical value’. By making this distinction, Waters fails to recognize that the relationship between ideology and pedagogy is inextricable: ideologies are constructed, reproduced, and made manifest in social practices, such as language teaching. Furthermore, in certain language learning and teaching situations, an uncritical stance—one which views language teaching as a neutral and value-free activity—is incompatible with students’ language learning and broader life concerns. In this response article, I maintain that in such contexts, the field of applied linguistics has an obligation to mediate in a way that is both critical and pedagogically relevant.


15:31:26: A G-Theory Analysis of Rater Effect in ESL Speaking Assessment

The current status of English as an international language has come with challenges to the native speaker norms and raised the relevance of localized varieties in language assessment. This preliminary study investigates whether native English-speaking (NS) and non-native English-speaking (NNS) raters differ in their effect on score reliability in ESL speaking assessment. A generalizability theory analysis indicated that, although NS and NNS raters exhibited similar severity patterns across all students, they interacted with the students in different ways. This article also discusses the implications for assessment practice and directions for future research.


15:31:26: Mike Levy and Glenn Stockwell: Call Dimensions: Options and Issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. * Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy (eds): Teacher Education in Call.

15:31:26: P. Li, L. Tan, E. Bates and P. Tzeng (eds): The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume 1: Chinese.

15:31:26: Geoff Thompson and Susan Hunston (eds): System and Corpus: Exploring Connections.

15:31:26: Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Catherine Nickerson, and Brigitte Planken: Business Discourse. * Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis.

15:31:26: Notes on Contributors

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

The LINGUIST List: All

15:06:20: All: Obituary: Natalja Yuljevna Shvedova

2009-09-15

Georgetown University

06:00:00: Newsmakers: Sept. 16, 2009
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.

2009-09-14

Georgetown University

06:00:00: Boren Scholars Named For Language, Culture Pursuits
The National Security Education Program names this year's undergraduate and graduate awardees who will do research and study abroad.

2009-09-12

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-09-09

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-09-08

Georgetown University

06:00:00: Sisters Speak In 'You Were Always Mom's Favorite': NPR
Morning Edition

2009-09-01

The LINGUIST List: All

15:06:54: All: Obituary: G. Nick Clements

2009-08-27

The LINGUIST List: All

17:25:24: All: NEW at LL - The Student Portal!

2009-08-26

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

The LINGUIST List: Software

05:12:50: Software: Linguos - Update

2009-08-20

The LINGUIST List: All

21:58:38: All: EasyAbs 2.0

2009-08-19

Georgetown University

06:00:00: Language Watch: Is Gibbs Striking the Wrong 'Denote'?: ABC News

2009-08-18

Georgetown University

06:00:00: U.S. News Ranks GU No. 23; Rises in Economic Value: Business, Study-Abroad Programs Also Recognized
Georgetown is once again among the top 25 schools in the nation in U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges list.

2009-08-10

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

The LINGUIST List: All

15:31:45: All: Obituary: Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov

2009-07-29

The LINGUIST List: All

22:12:10: All: ISO 639-3: Requested Code Changes (Region: Europe)

22:09:05: All: ISO 639-3: Requested Code Changes (Region: Pacific)

22:03:15: All: ISO 639-3: Requested Code Changes (Region: Asia)

21:58:20: All: ISO 639-3: Requested Code Changes (Region: Americas)

21:52:58: All: ISO 639-3: Requested Code Changes (Region: Africa)

2009-07-28

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-07-22

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-07-21

The LINGUIST List: All

18:12:49: All: Obituary: Erica García, 1934-2009

2009-07-15

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2009-07-10

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

The LINGUIST List: All

19:10:28: All: Obituary: Mark Volpe

2009-07-09

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-06-24

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-06-23

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2009-06-22

The LINGUIST List: All

21:22:52: All: Wiley-Blackwell Compass Panelists Needed

2009-06-18

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2009-06-16

The LINGUIST List: Sum

22:42:23: Sum: Anti-Perfect

2009-06-11

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-06-07

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-06-04

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-06-01

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-05-28

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-05-22

The LINGUIST List: All

20:20:05: All: Obituary: Dr. David Watters

2009-05-18

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

2009-05-12

The LINGUIST List: All

15:27:54: All: Wiley-Blackwell Compass Panel

2009-05-11

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-05-04

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

2009-05-01

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

The LINGUIST List: Disc

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

2009-04-29

The LINGUIST List: Disc

17:43:45: Disc: Re: Uneducated families = Noncomplex language?

2009-04-27

The LINGUIST List: Disc

14:52:56: Disc: Uneducated families = Noncomplex language?

2009-04-22

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-04-13

The LINGUIST List: Disc

17:20:34: Disc: Endangered Languages: Reality and Publicity

2009-04-10

The LINGUIST List: Disc

04:21:56: Disc: Disc: Re: Free Sharing of Linguistic Research/Info

2009-04-06

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2009-03-31

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-03-25

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

The LINGUIST List: Disc

15:59:05: Disc: Re: Free Sharing of Linguistic Research/Info

2009-03-24

The LINGUIST List: Disc

21:59:22: Disc: Re: Free Sharing of Linguistic Research/Info

21:36:35: Disc: Re: Free Sharing of Linguistic Knowledge/Info

2009-03-21

The LINGUIST List: Disc

21:43:20: Disc: Free Sharing of Linguistic Research/Information

2009-03-08

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2009-02-26

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

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

2009-02-18

The LINGUIST List: Disc

16:38:58: Disc: New: Representing paraphrases of paraphrases

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2009-02-09

The LINGUIST List: Sum

20:46:25: Sum: Vocabulary Statistics

2009-02-03

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

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

2009-01-30

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2009-01-27

The LINGUIST List: Software

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

2009-01-22

The LINGUIST List: Sum

00:42:47: Sum: Feeding and Counterfeeding

2008-12-21

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2008-12-16

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

The LINGUIST List: Software

15:51:50: Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

2008-12-01

The LINGUIST List: Software

16:05:30: Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

15:52:10: Software: Pathfinder Through Framenet: new web application

2008-11-23

The LINGUIST List: Software

17:47:42: Software: Final Second HAREM Resources available

2008-11-04

The LINGUIST List: Disc

21:44:14: Disc: Review of 'The Use of English in Institutional...'

2008-10-31

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2008-10-28

The LINGUIST List: Disc

04:09:54: Disc: New: Review of 'Lesbian Discourses'

2008-10-27

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2008-10-26

The LINGUIST List: Software

03:36:36: Software: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

2008-10-18

The LINGUIST List: Software

05:00:10: Software: Pinyin Builder

2008-10-08

The LINGUIST List: Software

17:51:51: Software: Software for automatic text processing

The LINGUIST List: Sum

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

2008-10-03

The LINGUIST List: Software

17:45:17: Software: LanguageWare Resource Workbench

2008-09-18

The LINGUIST List: Software

16:06:21: Software: Announcement : Free software for authorship attrib

The LINGUIST List: Disc

15:53:18: Disc: Review of 'Chomsky's Minimalism'

2008-09-13

The LINGUIST List: Disc

02:35:29: Disc: Review of 'Chomsky's Minimalism'

02:33:30: Disc: Review 'Chomsky's Minimalism'

2008-09-12

The LINGUIST List: Disc

18:52:51: Disc: Review of 'Chomsky's Minimalism'

18:27:34: Disc: Review of 'Chomsky's Minimalism'

2008-09-10

The LINGUIST List: Disc

17:51:33: Disc: Review of 'Chomsky's Minimalism'

2008-09-09

The LINGUIST List: Disc

23:23:59: Disc: New: Review of 'Chomsky's Minimalism'

2008-08-28

The LINGUIST List: Sum

17:56:08: Sum: Lithuanian knóju

2008-08-15

The LINGUIST List: Sum

15:20:06: Sum: Introspective Help

2008-08-11

The LINGUIST List: Disc

22:07:11: Disc: New: Speeded listening, and audio learning

2008-07-31

The LINGUIST List: Disc

21:06:00: Disc: New: Review of 'Narrative Community'

2008-07-24

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2008-07-23

The LINGUIST List: Sum

17:28:04: Sum: /l/-Palatalisation in the Complex Onset (2)

2008-07-22

The LINGUIST List: Sum

18:51:56: Sum: Artic for Arctic: Answer to Query

2008-07-14

The LINGUIST List: Sum

02:52:24: Sum: /l/-Palatalisation in Complex Onsets

2008-07-07

The LINGUIST List: Sum

15:38:44: Sum: Tagger for Dari, Farsi/Persian

2008-06-29

The LINGUIST List: Sum

15:08:51: Sum: Terms for Comparative Philology

2008-05-31

The LINGUIST List: Sum

14:42:39: Sum: Negation in Slavic Languages

2008-05-24

The LINGUIST List: Sum

16:37:54: Sum: Bound Copies as Anaphora

2008-05-06

The LINGUIST List: Sum

19:31:12: Sum: Overt Markers on Mass Nouns

2008-04-27

The LINGUIST List: Sum

05:11:42: Sum: Compositional Semantics - 'So,' 'So ADJ That'

2008-04-14

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2008-03-15

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2008-02-11

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2008-01-17

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2007-10-05

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

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

2007-09-28

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2007-09-24

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2007-08-23

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

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

2007-08-09

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2007-07-30

The LINGUIST List: Media

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

2007-06-06

The LINGUIST List: Media

21:22:20: Media: Radio Show on UG