Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics

A Linguistics Oriented Programming Language

A programming language fo r natural language processing programs is descr ibed. Examples of the output of programs w r i t t e n using it are g iven. The reasons fo r various design decisions are discussed. An actual session wi th the system is presented, in which a small fragment of an Engl ish-to-French t r ans la to r is devel oped. Some of the l i m i t a t i o n s of the system are d i s c...

The Application of Translingualism to Language Revitalisation in Taiwan

Translingualism is a term from Steven G. Kellman (2000) and David Schwarzer et al. (2006), who see teaching an L2 as bridge building between languages that allow one to retain a unified mind and not be cloven into two for the sake of being multilingual. Thus, in contrast to multilingualism, translingualism stresses the process and not the goal. Classrooms where students come from two or more di...

Defining the relation between linguistics and neuroscience

The popularity of the study of language and the brain is evident from the large number of studies published in the last 15 or so years that have used PET, fMRI, EEG, MEG, TMS, or NIRS to investigate aspects of brain and language, in linguistic domains ranging from phonetics to discourse processing. The amount of resources devoted to such studies suggests that they are motivated by a viable and ...

Computational Linguistics: Language Learning

Sign Language & Linguistics

The work reported in this study is based on research that has been carried out while developing a sign synthesis system for Greek Sign Language (GSL): theoretical linguistic analysis as well as lexicon and grammar resources derived from this analysis. We focus on the organisation of linguistic knowledge that initiates the multi-functional processing required to achieve sign generation performed...