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The Oddest Thing in the Universe

 

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Life, The Universe, and A Small, Yellow Leechlike Fish


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UG OVERVIEWS

  • Chomsky’s Perspective: Three Factors in Language Design, Noam Chomsky – http://bit.ly/2mV2TEg
  • Outside Perspective: What’s universal grammar? Evidence rebuts Chomsky’s theory of language learning – http://bit.ly/2mS3QNB

On language and conflict:

  • Culture or Contiguity: Ethnic Conflict, the Similarity of States, and the Onset of War, 1820-1989, Errol A. Henderson – http://bit.ly/2OubsCD

ARTICLES

PAPERS

  • First steps toward a usage-based theory of language acquisition,  Michael Tomasello – http://bit.ly/2OtUm7O
  • The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? – Marc D. Hauser, Noam Chomsky and W. Tecumseh Fitch – http://bit.ly/2OsV3OM
  • Universal Grammar and Semiotic Constraints, Terrence W. Deacon – http://bit.ly/2OsV7Ow
  • Language as an Adaptation to the Cognitive Niche, Steven Pinker – http://bit.ly/2mSm69F
  • Universal Grammar: Wittgenstein Versus Chomsky, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock – http://bit.ly/2mPrQ3Q

BOOKS

  • Chomsky’s Universal Grammar – An Introduction, 3rd Edition, Vivian J Cook and Mark Newson – http://bit.ly/2OudPFx
  • The Origins of Human Communication, Michael Tomasello – http://bit.ly/2mTCWVs
  • Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory, Cary Wolfe – http://bit.ly/2mUFz9H
  • Multilingualism: A Very Short Introduction, John C Maher – http://bit.ly/2Ov7zx5
  • Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein – http://bit.ly/2OsYWTS

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The Printing Press and the Great Vowel Shift

What explains the difference between English and American accents?  On this episode of Reasonably Sound, Mike Rugnetta explains that this spoken phenomenon starts with the written word.

Music:

Hudson Cycle – Nico Muhly

I’m Afraid of Americans (V1) – David Bowie

Americans – Oneohtrix Point Never

Paper Crumpling R – Sesame Street

Messages Received – Cabaret Voltaire

On American versus English Spelling:

Why Do Brits and Americans Spell Words Differently?

Americanize, Anglicise: Why Do Brits And Yanks Spell Words Differently?

Present Day American Spelling from The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 6

Main Sources for this Episode:

A History of the English Language by Elly van Gelderen

Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction by Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck

Why Do Americans and Brits Have Different Accents?

When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

Received Pronunciation

 

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