Linguistics in the News Archive
Do Washingtonians share a particular way of speaking? Is there such a thing as a specifically D.C.
A looming crisis for newspaper editors has been averted.
A looming crisis for newspaper editors has been averted. Webster’s New World Dictionary is in safe hands again. Read more ...
This Language Log posting for discusses several different hypotheses about how English grammar might have changed to allow Isis and Wasis into the pantheon of grammaticality. Read more ...
Montreal is a linguistic kaleidoscope, with its own regional blend of English and French words. Just as there are anglicisms, Montreal anglos use French words in regular speech. The Montreal Gazette has an online survey that they hope will help us document this mélange.
Somewhere between Sheffield and Chesterfield, people stop saying house and say something that sounds a lot more like 'arse. It's an isogloss, a kind of linguistic boundary line where accent and dialect changes.
New census data reveal linguistic diversity of Canada’s population.
A University of Waikato-led research project which draws on the "wisdom of the elders" to improve conservation and biodiversity has won support from the prestigious Marsden Fund, New Zealand's funding for ideas-driven research.
Funding for federal science programs, including linguistics research within NSF and NIH, is under threat; without further congressional action, automatic budget cuts will reduce spending on science by nine percent as of January 2, 2013. The American Physical Society is spearheading a studen
The North Carolina Language and Life Project has a booth at the the North Carolina State Fair to educate fairgoers about language and culture in the state. The YouTube video below shows footage from the 2012 Fair.
The U.S. East Coast is beginning to clean up after Hurricane Sandy. Two articles, one by Geoffrey Pullum in Lingua Franca and one by Mark Liberman in Language Log discuss word compounding as it relates to popular names for the storm.
According to this New York Times review of David Skinner's new book, the publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary caused significant controversy within the linguistic community when it first appeared in 1961.
The National Science Foundation has issued a call for Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (IBSS).
A colour-coded graphic pinpoints the location and language of tweets sent from the British capital and shows how linguistic groups are clustered in the city's various districts. Using an open-source website language detector
A recent Language Log posting notes that two linguistics departments each claim to be the oldest department of linguistics in the United States. Help author Geoffrey Pullum settle this question. Read more ....
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University of Pennsylvania linguist and LSA member William Labov has been awarded the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science "[f]or establishing the cognitive basis of language variation and change through rigorous analysis of linguistic data, and for the study of non-stan