CofC Linguistics

Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 5 pm
The Dr. Elizabeth Martínez-Gibson Linguistics Lecture Series presents Dr. Elena Benedicto, Professor and Director, Indigenous and Endangered Languages Lab, Purdue University
“The rich diversity of variation across sign languages and what it says about the range of human linguistic capabilities”
School of Science and Mathematics Room 129 Auditorium, 202 Calhoun Street

New rack card for CofC Linguistic Studies!

Maps on the Web "Beautiful" in different languages.  by lingue.maps

'Universal language network' identified in the brain This network had mostly been studied in English speakers.

The Race to Document Endangered Languages, Now That We Have the Technology Beyond vowels and consonants, complex tonal melodies might be lost to history if not documented in endangered and Indigenous languages.

I Tried to Get My Kids to Stop Saying the Word 'Like' Until Experts Said I Didn't Have To If your kid says, "The bus was like so late today," or "Could you like pass the ketchup?" here's why you should stop worrying about it.

https://thelanguagenerds.com/2019/piraha-language-the-linguistic-anomaly/?fbclid=IwAR20D8yUkH6sAf-PyCng4D6Ue4cUeJuBzkvR4RZIND0SbqZA0OhwopEut14

Here is the language​ that disproves Universal Grammar. Here is the language​ that disproves Universal Grammar. Linguists, led by Chomsky, did a wonderful job in describing how language works. By thoroughly studying a  of human languages, they were able to devise a theory, i.e. Universal Grammar, which could explain all possible human languages with ...

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-switch-soft-food-gave-us-overbite-and-ability-pronounce-f-s-and-v-s

Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f's and ‘v's How farming reshaped our smiles and our speech

What's the Newest Language? "Even excluding conlangs (deliberately constructed languages like Esperanto or Klingon), new languages form organically all the time."

Saw this on a Linguistcs FB page today (posted by Bridget Bell) and it reminded me of why it was so important to start a Linguistics Program at CofC over 20 years ago.

"Linguistics can combined with almost any other academic study
Anthropology + Linguistics = Anthropological Linguistics
Biology + Linguistics = Biolingusitics
Child Development + Linguistics = Developmentmental Linguistics
Cognitive Science + Linguistics = Cognitive Linguistics
Communication Disorders + Linguistics =Clinical Linguistics (also known as speech-language pathology)
Computer Science + Linguistics = Computational Linguistics
Education + Linguistics = Educational Linguistics
Evolution + Linguistics = Evolutionary Linguistics
Geography + Linguistics = Language Geography
History +Linguistics = Historical Linguistics
Internet + Linguistics = Internet Linguistics
Law + Linguistics = Forensic Lingustics
Math + Linguistics = Quantitive Linguistics
Neurology + Linguistics = Neurolinguistics
Philosophy + Linguistics = Philosophy of Language
Psychology + linguistics = Psycholinguistics
Sociology + Linguistics = Sociolinguistics"

Can you think of more disciplines that connect with Linguistics?

https://www.science.org/content/article/sunlight-affects-whether-languages-have-word-blue?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Facebook&

Sunlight affects whether languages have a word for ‘blue’ Culture and topography also play important roles

Dr. Ricard Viñas-de-Puig and Dr. Antonio Pérez-Núñez at the CofC Majors and Minors Fair 9 29 21