Linguistics_World at Yahoo! Groups http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/ Linguistics World Vocabulary: Are we losing our lexicon? Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:49:14 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/119 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/119 Vocabulary: Are we losing our lexicon? Ian Brown, Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 June 2007 With the Lord of Loquacity on trial in Chicago and schools playing down Mind your language at Geno's Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:44:39 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/118 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/118 Mind your language at Geno's By James Coomarasamy, BBC News, 30 June 2007 The collapse of President Bush's recent immigration reform was partly fuelled by Bare-Bones Program Learns English and Japanese Vowels Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:11:16 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/117 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/117 Bare-Bones Program Learns English and Japanese Vowels Scientific American, July 23, 2007 Computer model learns vowel sounds infant-style: on the fly A new Ebonics: The Subject Still Stirs Strong Feelings Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:47:52 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/116 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/116 Ebonics: The Subject Still Stirs Strong Feelings William Weir, The Hartford Courant, 23 July 2007 Discussing the gap in language acquisition among students, Overcoming Language Anxiety Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:32:54 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/115 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/115 Overcoming Language Anxiety By Andy Guess, Inside Higher-Ed, 29 Jun 2007 The symptoms are familiar: a lack of confidence, a reluctance to speak, even insomnia Teletubbies can't beat people in teaching first words Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:30:04 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/114 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/114 Teletubbies can't beat people in teaching first words Reuters, June 29, 2007 Babies and toddlers are enchanted by the Teletubbies with their brightly colored Danes Worry English Onslaught Could Undermine the Language Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:42:05 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/113 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/113 Danes Worry English Onslaught Could Undermine the Language Kyle James, Deutsche Welle, 30 March 2007 Danish linguists have warned the government that the The Power of Babble Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:35:31 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/112 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/112 The Power of Babble By Jonathan Keats, Wired, March 2007 MIT researcher Deb Roy is videotaping every waking minute of his infant son's first 3 years of life. Children are better language mimics than adults Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:06:49 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/111 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/111 Children are better language mimics than adults Leah Rae, The New York Journal News, 26 February 2007 Everyone knows that children pick up a second language Can't write can't spell... Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:02:27 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/110 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/110 Can't write can't spell... Lisa Mitchell, The Age, February 26, 2007 Moves are afoot to instil correct grammar and punctuation in our children, but are our In Scotland, a revival of Gaelic Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:29:29 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/109 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/109 In Scotland, a revival of Gaelic By Iona Macdonald, International Herald Tribune, 8 December 2006 Scotland's first contemporary feature film in Gaelic is in Queen’s English is more like subjects’ Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:28:00 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/108 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/108 Queen's English is more like subjects' Associated Press, 9 December 2006 Queen Elizabeth II sounds more like her subjects than she did a half century ago, when Bilingualism delays onset of dementia Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:24:47 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/107 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/107 Bilingualism delays onset of dementia By David Ljunggren, Reuters, 12 January 2007 People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most Immersion leaves native language speakers tongue-tied Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:16:07 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/106 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/106 Immersion leaves native language speakers tongue-tied By Greg Bolt, The Register-Guard, February 4, 2007 When it comes to memory, it turns out that sometimes It's Hinglish, innit? Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:32:26 GMT jeansp_98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/105 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Linguistics_World/message/105 It's Hinglish, innit? By Sean Coughlan, BBC News Magazine, 8 November 2006 Hinglish - a hybrid of English and south Asian languages, used both in Asia and the