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Role of Topicalization in American Sign Language
March 14, 2022
According to the National Association of the Deaf, it takes time, patience, practice, and a good sense of humor to learn American Sign Language (ASL). Where learning the individual signs is... Read More
Using an Audience Response System to Collect Live Data
March 9, 2022
Since the beginning of the new millennium, audience response systems have come a long way. Bulky, hard to configure units with wires running from a control box to each participant’s... Read More
Can Language Impact Climate Change?
February 17, 2022
Since the emergence of ecolinguistics in the 1970s, a variety of new terms have evolved in languages worldwide. As a necessity for discussions involving the ecological crisis faced by different... Read More
How War Often Leads to Language Extinction
February 15, 2022
If you keep up with news today, you know that one of the harsh realities of our time is the growing number of wars that are ongoing in differing parts of the world. Despite the industrialization... Read More
Esperanto Language Finds New Life Online
January 12, 2022
The Internet has changed a lot of cultural traditions in paving the way for people around the world to communicate with each other. It is easy to see how fictious tongues from literature, movies,... Read More
Every Language Is Different But…
January 7, 2022
Every language is different, but all languages have basic parts of speech as well as rules for constructing phrases out of similar building blocks. In fact, there are fundamental underpinnings... Read More
Which Culture Celebrated the First New Year
December 27, 2021
Throughout antiquity, cultures around the globe developed knowledge-based calendars that pinned the New Year to an astronomical or agricultural event. Some 4,000 years ago, the Babylonians... Read More
Why You Shouldn't Trust Google Translate
December 7, 2021
For many monolinguals, Google Translate has been a godsend. Gone are the days of thumbing through a Spanish-to-English dictionary searching for the word you just heard. Now when you overhear... Read More
How Colors Developed as Languages Evolved
November 23, 2021
Having found clues scattered throughout more modern vocabularies, linguists have concluded that human languages of the world may be derivative of proto human language that was spoken in East... Read More
Is America Still the World’s Melting Pot?
October 29, 2021
Anywhere diverse groups of people assimilate and blend together as one can be called a “melting pot”. Whereas many countries have a population made up of people who are similar in... Read More
