Linguistics in the News
January 2008
There is a brand new documentary film, shown recently at the Sundance Film Festival, called "The Linguists" about the extinction of languages (and associated cultures) throughout the world.
There was an interview on NPR with the linguists who were involved in the movie. You can listen to it at http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/01/20080125_b_main.asp
Here's an article about the movie: http://www.reuters.com/article/reviewsNews/idUSN2135148520080121?sp=true "'Linguists' the talk of the town at Sundance." The article begins like this:
"Indiana Jones' spirit certainly infects the intrepid heroes of "The Linguists."
These are bold academics who plunge into the jungles and backwater villages
of the world to rescue living tongues about to go extinct."
For more information about the movie, or to watch the trailer, go to: http://www.thelinguists.com/.
Collections
Articles and links
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Endangered
Languages
on NPR, March 2002.
Recent New York Times article:
'Hard-Wired'
Grammar Rules Found for All
Languages"
New
York Review of Books: John Searle reviews Steve
Pinker's
Words and Rules: the Ingradients of
Language
Scientists
Identify a Language Gene,
as reported by the National
Geographic.
A
critical period for right hemisphere recruitment in
American Sign Language
processing,
in Nature Neuroscience.
Sound
and meaning: how native language affects reading
strategies, by
J. Fiez in Nature Neuroscience.
Development
of language-specific phoneme representations in the
infant brain,
by Cheour et al., in Nature
Neuroscience.
Discriminating
native sounds: language-specific brain responses in
infants,
by K. Narasimhan, et al., in Nature
Neuroscience.
Musical
syntax is processed in Broca's area: an MEG
study,
by Maess, et al., in Nature
Neuroscience.
Brain
potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues
in natural speech
processing,
by Steinhauer, et al., in Nature
Neuroscience.
Speech
boundaries, syntax and the
brain,
by Van Petten and Bloom, in Nature
Neuroscience.
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