How can you make a difference to language?
Linguists are doing a lot of great work, but what if you’re not a linguist? Is there anything that you can do to make the world a better place for language and the people who use it?
Daniel Midgley has some ideas, and he chats with linguist Christine Mallinson on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Cutting Room Floor
Ben and Daniel talk about child-rearing, soap, and paper — mentioning every form of bodily waste possible. (To Kylie’s confusion, but not surprise.) But how did we get the phrase “from rags to riches”? And Ben has a special request for the hat that Kylie is making.
The TtT team has a crack at Wordrobe, a game that collects data for computational linguists. Do you agree with their answers? And: is “fake news” dead?
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Show notes
On 22 April, empiricists around the country will march for science
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/april-22-empiricists-around-country-will-march-science
March for Science – Perth, Western Australia
https://www.facebook.com/MarchForSciencePerthWA/
Green Party launches plan to teach te reo Maori to ‘every New Zealand child’
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/green-party-launches-plan-teach-te-reo-maori-every-new-zealand-child
Why does the idea of te reo Māori as a core subject make so many people flip out?
http://thespinoff.co.nz/society/03-02-2017/why-does-the-idea-of-te-reo-maori-as-a-core-subject-make-so-many-people-flip-out/
Māori Language Policy
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1607/S00199/maori-language-policy.htm
Māori Language Week / Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2017
http://planeta.com/maorilanguageweek/
Maori particles
http://everything2.com/title/Maori+particles
English-only speakers find learning Te Reo difficult
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/213544/english-only-speakers-find-learning-te-reo-difficult
Ethnologue: Maori in the Language Cloud
https://www.ethnologue.com/cloud/mri
Kickstarter: language
https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?ref=nav_search&term=language
The Endangered Languages Project
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com
Volunteering with the Refugee Council of Australia
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/volunteering/
AMES Australia
https://www.ames.net.au/find-sites
Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)
https://central.wa.edu.au/amep/Pages/default.aspx
Read Write Now
http://www.read-write-now.org
volunteering.org.au: “language” in WA
https://volunteeringwa.org.au/volunteers/find-a-position/position-search-results#/search/language/?Locations=WA
New app Valuable Voices builds awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity in the classroom
http://news.umbc.edu/new-app-valuable-voices-builds-awareness-of-linguistic-and-cultural-diversity-in-the-classroom/
Valuable Voices on the App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/valuable-voices/id1145710477?mt=8
Phrase Detectives
http://anawiki.essex.ac.uk/phrasedetectives/
Wordrobe
http://wordrobe.housing.rug.nl/Wordrobe/public/HomePage.aspx
Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year: Committee’s Choice and People’s Choice announced!
https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/word/of/the/year/
Ben Pobjie: Halal Snack Pack isn’t a word: It’s time to boycott Big Dictionary
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/halal-snack-pack-isnt-a-word-boycott-dictionary/8234744
Pauline Hanson loses it over halal snack packs
http://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/pauline-hanson-loses-it-over-halal-snack-packs/news-story/a52ed6c717833bdc81c14839e5de9518
ACL: Multiword Expressions
https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Multiword_Expressions
Morphological Typology: Modes of attachment (PDF)
http://sites.middlebury.edu/lngt101fall2015/files/2015/10/morphological-typology-of-languages-from-the-language-files.pdf
Morphological Typology
http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/50939757945/morphological-typology-illustrations-from
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The tale of Benny and Jenny
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/09/the-tale-of-benny-and-jenny/
Meet Ben’s Sister Jane, History’s Forgotten Franklin
http://www.wbur.org/npr/231431080/meet-bens-sister-jane-historys-forgotten-franklin
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