Linguistics at Payap University

12/02/2017

Payap Research Symposium 2017

26/08/2015

Aj. Larin recommended Martin Hilpert for our "continuing education" in Linguistics. I've enjoyed watching a couple of them. I prefer him at 1.5 speed; Aj. Larin says he listens at double speed. I don't seem to be able to listen that fast. Must be getting old.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=martin+hilpert&spfreload=1

แชร์วิดีโอของคุณกับเพื่อน ครอบครัว และทุกคนทั่วโลก

22/08/2015

A good description or not?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150820-why-is-canadian-english-unique

America’s neighbour resisted annexation by the US and its people remained UK subjects. But Canada’s English isn’t exactly British or American, writes James Harbeck.

07/08/2015

Singlish or English or Both or ...?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33809914

Singapore tried to make its multi-racial population speak English. They responded by making a hybrid language - Singlish - now 50 years old.

03/08/2015

The Payap Linguistics Department Linguistics Colloquium
Dr. Stephen Morey
Verbal Agreement marking in the Tangsa / Tangshang languages
FRIDAY ! FRIDAY !! FRIDAY !!! 11:00 AM, August 7, 2015
Pentecost Bldg. Room 201

28/07/2015

A free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on language revival will begin on 28 July 2015. All welcome: https://www.edx.org/course/language-revival-securing-future-adelaidex-la...

07/07/2015

Want to make up your own language? One of my grammar teachers made up one he called 'Martian', in part to illustrate unusual grammatical features of languages.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150706-the-writers-who-invented-languages

JRR Tolkien created Elvish and many other writers have made up new words and phrases. But can you really construct a whole new lexicon? Hephzibah Anderson takes a look.

01/07/2015

Austalian Outback birds and human language structure.
http://www.financialexpress.com/article/lifestyle/science/signs-of-human-esque-communication-discovered-in-babbler-birds/92292/

A key element of human language has been discovered in babbler bird.

30/06/2015

http://themindunleashed.org/2015/06/see-the-worlds-most-spoken-languages-in-one-eye-opening-infographic.html

Around the world there are a total of 7,102 known languages, of this gargantuan amount twenty-three remain popular enough to be considered…

18/06/2015

Migration, Language, Genes, Lactose intolerance ...
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/59068/20150611/ancient-dna-provides-clues-to-migration-language-and-lactose-tolerance.htm
Also see:
http://www.nature.com/news/dna-data-explosion-lights-up-the-bronze-age-1.17723
And many more reporters' takes on the article.

Advancements in modern DNA technology are providing a deeper and more refined glimpse into ancient populations, revealing timetables for human migrations, the influx of languages, and even the physical attributes of prehistoric populations.

05/06/2015

Announcing the following uploaded articles in Volume 9, available here: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/?p=603

Greetings from the LD&C team
http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/

On Training in Language Documentation and Capacity Building in Papua New Guinea: A Response to Bird et al.
Joseph D. Brooks, pp. 1–9

Documentary Linguistics and Computational Linguistics: A response to Brooks
Steven Bird, David Chiang, Friedel Frowein, Florian Hanke & Ashish Vaswani, pp. 10–11

Collaborative Documentation and Revitalization of Cherokee Tone
Dylan Herrick, Marcellino Berardo, Durbin Feeling, Tracy Hirata-Edds & Lizette Peter, pp. 12–31

May Sasabihin ang Kabataan ‘The Youth Have Something to Say’: Youth perspectives on language shift and linguistic identity 
Emerson Lopez Odango, pp. 32–58

‘Lone Wolves’ and Collaboration: A Reply to Crippen & Robinson (2013)
Claire Bowern & Natasha Warner, pp. 59–85

Collaboration: A Reply to Bowern & Warner’s Reply
Laura Robinson & James Crippen, pp. 86–88

Tools for Analyzing Verbal Art in the Field
Myfany Turpin & Lana Henderson, pp. 89–109

State-of-the-Art in the Development of the Lokono Language
Konrad Rybka, pp. 110–133

Designing a Dictionary for an Endangered Language Community: Lexicographical Deliberations, Language Ideological Clarifications
Paul V. Kroskrity, pp. 140–157

Book Reviews
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork, by Nicholas Thieberger (ed.)
Reviewed by Andrew Pawley, pp. 134–139

The Marshallese-English Online Dictionary, by Takaji Abo, Bryron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle & Tony DeBrum
Reviewed by J. Albert Bickford, pp. 158–163


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29/04/2015

How closely does world-wide phonemic variation correlate with genetic variation? Surprisingly well, it turns out.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/5/1265.full
http://www.icr.org/article/8646

Contributed by Marcus W. Feldman, December 17, 2014 (sent for review July 16, 2014; reviewed by Quentin D. Atkinson and Keith Hunley)