List of Articles for Talks and Experiments Requirement

Web accessible articles are listed with their addresses. Hard copies of the articles and copies of the questionnaire are on reserve at the Sullivant Library for students to sign-out. Students should ask for the Ling 201 (or 202, 371) Talks and Experiments readings and a specific article title.

Accents are Forever
Edwin Keister, Jr., Smithsonian, January 2001
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/jan01/phenom_jan01.html

American Sign Language: 'It's not mouth stuff - it's brain stuff'
Richard Wolkomir, Smithsonian, July 1992, 23 (2), p. 30.

The Decline of Grammar
Geoffrey Nunberg, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1983, pp. 31-46.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97mar/halpern/nunberg.htm

The Early History of Indo-European Languages
Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov, Scientific American, March 1990, p.110.
http://www.armenianhighland.com/homeland/chronicle120.html

Elegant Variation and All That
Jesse Sheidlower, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1996.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96dec/fowler/fowler.htm

Grammar Puss
Steven Pinker, The New Republic, January 31, 1994, pp. 19-26.
http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/tnr.html

Kids, Creoles, and the Coconuts
David Berreby, Discover, April 1992, p. 44.

The Language Explosion
Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek, SP/SU, 1997, pp. 16-23.

Learning the World's Languages -- Before They Vanish
Bernice Wuethrich, Science, 288 (5469), May 19, 2000, pp.1156-1159.

Listening out for Subtle Deficits
D. V. M. Bishop, Nature, May 8, 1997, 387, pp. 129-130.

The Mystery of Language
Shannon Brownlee, U.S. News and World Report, June 15, 1998, 124 (23), p. 48.

Should English be the Law?
Robert D. King, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1997.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97apr/english.htm

Sign Language in the Brain
Gregory Hickok, Ursula Bellugi, & Edward Klima, Scientific American, June 2001, p. 57.

The Throat Singers of Tuva
Theodore C. Levin & Michael E. Edgerton, Scientific American, September 1999.

What Global Language?
Barbara Wallraff, The Atlantic Monthly, November 2000.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/11/wallraff.htm