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Profiles
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linguistics
Match % Unknown Join to find out!I despise coffee, whipped cream, mustard, eggs and onions. I'm dangerous when given a script. I enjoy wearing "Jesus" sandals and having a conversation with almost anybody. Sure, I make faces in the mirror when I'm bored. I love inside jokes like "Mediterranean Pearl" and "I love tater tots!" I'm a...
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little_byelka
Match % Unknown Join to find out!Linguistics. If you don't know what linguistics is, please wikipedia it. If you don't know what Applied Linguistics is, first make sure you know what linguistics is, and then ask me what Applied Linguistics is. (Hint: My prof told me "It's not 'linguistics ... * Linguistics.* Applied Linguistics.
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firespeaker
Match % Unknown Join to find out!time to linguistics and Central ... grad student in the linguistics department at Indiana University. I received my undergraduate degree in both linguistics and anthropology from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, in 2005 and am finishing my M.A. in the linguistics department at the
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zora129
Match % Unknown Join to find out!Geeky linguistics grad student, workaholic, neat freak, and ... Cooking, linguistics, listening, being organized, being a reliable friend to those who have my loyalty. Being unconventional and traditional at the same time. Confusing people. Talking about linguistics.
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Tests
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Basic Knowledge of Linguistics Test
So many people seem to think just because they can speak, they know something meaningful about language, but do they? Do you? Let's see if you could pass linguistics 101.
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The Linguist Test
This is a test on... linguistics. I won't comment on the difficulty of the test; if you know what you're about you shouldn't do badly; if you're not s...
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The Literary Theory Test
Welcome to my Lit Crit test. This test is for all the literature majors out there (English and foreign language) who had to sit through endless hours...
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The Crazy Talk Test of Human Language
That's CRAZY TALK! (a.k.a. psycholinguistics - get it? psycho, linguistics?) How much do you know about the human capacity for language? *NEW!* Answer key at the end!
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The Bambidexterity Test
Take this old test and tell me what you think
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Journal Posts
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FAQ
Speech therapy, forensic linguistics, speech-to-text/text-to-speech technology, branding, dialect coaching, historical linguistics, etc. ... No middle men in the world of linguistics."What is linguistics exactly?
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10 Random Books from my Office, Book 4
Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics by Hatch et. ... freedom in writing a linguistics paper? In literature, any approach was open. In linguistics, you just do what you’re told. In literature, you craft your argument perhaps in reverse or in a circle. In linguistics, you label your charts
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My Linguistics Course
At UofC all linguistics majors and minors need to take a certain course entitled "Intro to Linguistics.
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some additional thoughts
The Linguistics department, on the other hand, is fairly gender-balanced, even though ... standpoint of helping people to communicate, and Linguistics is more theoretically oriented. What do you do with a Linguistics degree? I don't know--I considered going into linguistics way back in '93 when I was
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Journal Comments
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Five Kvin Watano Cinco Pente
so bright, you gotta wear shades] I changes majors five times (physics/chem -> Physics -> Physics/Math -> Math -> Linguistics /Math -> Linguistics/CompSci/Math -> Linguistics/CompSci) and there was this wonderful feeling of possibility and choice --- the idea that if I wanted to
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STALKERS!!!
I am just utterly annoyed by people who most likely don't even know how to define linguistics and then try to argue with what I say/write. Mate, I have a MA in linguistics. I have been dealing with linguistics since 1996.
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The Republic of I Found 3 Quid
Why that would be so is one of the very interesting questions in linguistics. ... Shabanou: To say I have a degree in linguistics is a bit of a simplification. I did a degree in cognitive science with a double major in linguistics and computer science.
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LOOK AT THESE PHOTOES OF WOLVERINE TONGUE/LONG BOB
UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, the Sociolinguistics Symposium and ... responsible for linguistics). For example, the BNCL helped select participants at two ESF Summer Schools in linguistics (one on sociolinguistics at the University of Sussex in 1982, the other on psycholinguistics in Brussels
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Jewish Elitists' Involvement in the Slave Trade
scope of linguistics.His revolution followed fairly closely the general pattern described in Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: the accepted model or "paradigm" of linguistics was ... Linguistics was to be a sort of verbal botany. As Hockett wrote in 1942, "Linguistics is a
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What's the difference between "may" and "might"?
Linguistics is larger than grammar. Grammar is more like applied linguistics--a man-made quantity like written language for the transmission and control of ideas and their human subjects. In addition to sociolinguistics there's psycholinguistics, antropological linguistics, computational linguistics
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Jewish Elitists' Involvement in the Slave Trade
to challenge not only the methods but the goals and indeed the definition of the subject matter of linguistics given by the structuralist linguists. ... This conception of the goal of linguistics then altered the conception of the methods and the subject matter.
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Jewish Elitists' Involvement in the Slave Trade
argues that if there were no deep structure, linguistics as a study would be much less interesting because one could not then argue from syntax to the structure of the human mind, which for Chomsky is the chief interest of linguistics. ... no syntactical deep structures, linguistics if anything would
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