It’s another dive into the Mailbag.
What’s the hardest language to lip read? Why do we say but at the end of sentences? And what can you call the non-binary parent in your life?
Daniel, Kylie, and Ben will be working it out on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Rewi and Daniel chat ahead of the Mailbag episode, and Steele asks: Is there a term for the features of written language that aren’t present in spoken language?
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Cutting Room Floor
There’s a language warning for this Cutting Room Floor.
Daniel can’t do a convincing Australian final but. He’s invariably popular in clubs, but.
Ben just wants to talk about the ITA Flight Matrix, so you best sit yourself down and attend.
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Show notes
Poll: when I capitalize the names of Important Concepts, I’m imitating…
— Mx. Leah Velleman (@leahvelleman) 10 May 2018
@talkrtr hey I have a linguistic question I hope you may be able to help me with, an acquaintance wants to raise their baby to be multi-lingual. She speaks Mandarin and her husband speaks Spanish, the child speaks English, and will speak Spanish, but seems to resist Chinese
— Lawrence Of A Labia (@Lexington_Feelz) 4 May 2018
Annick de Houwer: Parental language input patterns and children’s bilingual use (PDF)
http://www.polydromo.gr/pdf/Epistimoniko/ekpaideysh_goneis_/AnnickDeHouwer_ParentalLanguagePatterns&children%27sBillingualUse_en.pdf
Annick de Houwer: Trilingual Input and Children’s Language Use in Trilingual Families in Flanders
Google Books link
The Languages you Speak to Your Bilingual Child
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-bilingual/201410/the-languages-you-speak-your-bilingual-child
Refusing to Speak a Language
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-bilingual/201106/refusing-speak-language
6 Reasons Why Your Bilingual Child Might Drop Your Language
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/6-reasons-why-your-bilingual-child-might-drop-your_us_57cd9143e4b06c750ddb2ede
My Bilingual Child Refuses to Use One Language!
http://www.multilingualliving.com/2010/04/22/bilingual-child-refuses-use-language/
LSA: FAQ: Raising Bilingual Children
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/faq-raising-bilingual-children
@talkrtr what languages are most difficult to lip read? (living or dead – except whistling) #ventriloquiz
— Wolf of the Wisp (@wolfofthewisp) 19 April 2018
Lip Reading Is No Simple Task
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lydia-l-callis/lip-reading-is-no-simple-task_b_9526300.html
This is What It’s Really Like to Lip Read
http://mentalfloss.com/article/72800/what-its-really-lip-read
Factors which help or hinder lipreading
http://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/courses/deaf/ddec05f.html
Wikipedia: Rotokas language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotokas_language
Wikipedia: Oneida language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_language
UPSID database (fun!)
http://web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de/upsid.html
WALS Online: Combination Absence of Common Consonants / Tone
http://wals.info/combinations/18A_13A#1/19/153
Athabaskan Prosody (the bit about Edward Sapir)
Google Books link
Tlingit language
http://www.languagegeek.com/isolate/tlingit.html
Lingít Yoo X̱ʼatángi: A Grammar of the Tlingit Language (PDF)
http://tlingitlanguage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Grammar-of-Tlingit-Language.pdf
Mary Anderson & Elizabeth Bosely (Tlingit Language)
https://youtu.be/h1p7RCcNXcY
Morely: Syntax in Functional Grammar
Google Books link
Adjectives
https://www.scribd.com/document/341256966/Adjectives-CRP-2016
Flat adverbs are exceeding fine
http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/flat-adverbs-are-exceeding-fine
TechCommGeekMom: What have you got against adverbs? What did they ever do to you?
https://techcommgeekmom.com/2013/05/27/what-have-you-got-against-adverbs-what-did-they-ever-do-to-you/
Truly. Madly. Deep. Adverbs and flat adverbs
https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/10/03/truly-madly-deep/
Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs – Merriam-Webster Ask the Editor
Wikibooks: Old English/Adverbs
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Old_English/Adverbs
Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage: English Dictionary
Google Books link
Mulder: Final ‘but’ in Australian English conversation
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=leE5AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA339&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Mulder: The Grammaticization of but as a Final Particle in English Conversation (PDF)
http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2005/mulder-thompson.pdf
Quora: What do kids of a non-binary parent call them?
https://www.quora.com/What-do-kids-of-a-non-binary-parent-call-them
DrugsSexPolitics: Gender neutral parent titles
https://drugssexpolitics.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/gender-neutral-parent-titles/
Beyond Mummy or Daddy: Names for Non-Binary Parents
https://theyismypronoun.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/beyond-mummy-or-daddy-names-for-non-binary-parents/
Image credit: http://nolayingup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mailbag.jpg
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