Linguistics Challenge Puzzles. Read these remarks carefully for important hints on how to solve the puzzles.
The following links will take you to some sample linguistics puzzles. These puzzles are copyrighted by the University of Oregon Department of Linguistics, but may be copied or printed for personal or classroom use. The puzzles are grouped according to degree of difficulty, using the international system for rating downhill ski runs. Green circle puzzles are for everyone; blue square puzzles are for those who need a little more challenge; black diamond puzzles are the most challenging. The double black diamond puzzles are the toughest of the tough -- extreme caution necessary!
The puzzles on this site were designed for students whose native language is English. No additional resources (dictionaries, etc.) are necessary to solve these puzzles. Agta, a seriously endangered minority language of the Northern Philippines. Chickasaw, an American Indian language of the Southeastern United States. Czech. French. Swahili. IPA Charts. Reader Question: What jobs can a linguist get? - Notes from a Linguistic Mystic. Hello all!
I’ve just gotten a reader question, and rather than just sending her back an email, I figured I’d throw the answer up here instead so that more people can perhaps learn from it. I am in my 3rd year of a bachelor degree in Linguistics, and I love it! I am just wondering what I could actually do with the skills I am learning… I mean for a living. What you can do depends on what you enjoy doing, and how advanced a degree you want to (and can) get. “I have a BA in Linguistics!” If you want to start working after you get the BA, there are some possibilities for linguistics-specific sort of work. Mind you, with just the BA, linguistics-specific jobs will be scarce, you’ll be at a lower pay grade than an MA or Ph.D student, and the point of entry is going to be a bit lower on the totem pole, but of course, you can work up.
“I got my MA too!” Reader Question: What jobs can a linguist get? - Notes from a Linguistic Mystic. Www.linguisticsociety.org/files/why-major-linguistics.pdf. Ardalambion. Of the Tongues of Arda, the invented world of J.R.R.
Tolkien. Are Languages Shaped By Geography? The way different languages sound may depend on the geography of the landscape on which they're spoken, new research suggests.
A study of more than 550 languages around the world found that tongues spoken in high-altitude regions contain more sounds called ejective consonants, made with a burst of air, than languages closer to sea level. Ejectives may be more common in these regions because the sounds are easier to produce there, or possibly because they minimize water loss from the mouth in dry, high-altitude environments, said study author Caleb Everett, an anthropological linguist at the University of Miami.
Traditionally, linguists have assumed that geography doesn't play a role in shaping languages, with the exception of vocabulary specific to certain environments or wildlife. A handful of small studies have suggested that languages in warm climates use more vowels than languages in cold climates, but the findings are controversial. [10 Things That Make Humans Special] Paul Meier Dialect Services - IPA charts - dialects - dialect books - phonetics - IPA - phonetics - vowels.
(If unavailable here, please go to Professor Armstrong’s site, where you will find them duplicated.)
The following interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) were designed by Eric Armstrong of York University, Toronto, Canada; and voiced by Paul Meier, of the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. They are provided as an aid to students of dialects and phonetics. If you are studying dialects with Paul Meier Dialect Services books or booklets, and want to hear one of the “signature sounds” in isolation, or in comparison with other sounds, you may do so using the charts here.
Futurese (JBR Precoglang) Justin B Rye 2003–2013 (now fully Unicodified) Predicting the future of the English language is rather easy, in the short term. The odds are, over the next few decades its New World dialects are going to gain increasing global dominance, accelerating the demise of thousands of less fortunate languages but at long last allowing a single advertisement to reach everybody in the world. Then after a century or two of US dominance some other geopolitical grouping will gain the ascendancy, everyone will learn Chechen or Patagonian or whatever it is, and history will continue as usual.
Ho hum. (From the Colloquy of Aelfric.) FOREWORD – the above LANGUAGE SF – Futurese Bibliography LANGUAGE CHANGE – Progress and Decay LANGUAGE TRENDS – Causes and Effects INTERMISSION – Notation and Terminology EARLY AMERICAN – 2100 AD MIDDLE AMERICAN – 2400 AD CLASSICAL AMERICAN – 2700 AD LATE AMERICAN – 3000 AD EXAMPLES – Words and Phrases. What I Learned From Traveling Abroad! In the Spring of 2012 I took a three month trek across Europe, by myself.
That is: solo female. Scary? No! FUN!! It was empowering and SO enjoyable! British Accents and Dialects. Wikimedia The United Kingdom is perhaps the most dialect-obsessed country in the world.
With near-countless regional Englishes shaped by millennia of history, few nations boast as many varieties of language in such a compact geography. (NOTE: This page uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For information about this notation, please visit my page of IPA Resources.) The below lists several important types of British English.
Received Pronunciation Received Pronunciation (a term by 19th Century linguist A.J. Features: Old English at UVA. Reader Question: What jobs can a linguist get? - Notes from a Linguistic Mystic. Omniglot - the guide to languages, alphabets and other writing systems. Speech accent archive: browse. Sound Comparisons. Linguistics.