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9th Conceptual Structure, Discourse, & Language

The 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language will take place at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) on 18-20 October, 2008.
CSDL features papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition.
The theme of CSDL 9 […]

Intuitions in Linguistic Argumentation

Wasow, T. & Arnold, J.
Intuitions in Linguistic Argumentation.
Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics, 2005, 1481-1496.
Generative grammarians have relied on introspective intuitions of well-formedness as their primary source of data. The overreliance on this one type of data and the unsystematic manner in which they are collected cast doubt on the empirical basis of a great […]

IPA Entry Method

Linguistic Mystic has a very good IPA character entry mechanism for MacOS only.

From Ontogenesis to Phylogenesis: What Can Child Language Tell Us About Language Evolution

Slobin, Dan I
Biology and Knowledge, J Langer, S. T. Parker, C. Milbrath (2004)
Dan Slobin examines (and refutes) the hypothesis that child language serves as a good parallel to the evolution of language in proto-hominids. A very well written paper that makes frequent comparisons to the classical version of the recapitulationist argument.

Language and Thought Online: Cognitive Consequences of Linguistic Relativity

Slobin, Dan I.
Language in Mind: Advances in the study of language and thought (pp. 157-192)
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press