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Kaye Boesme joins George to talk about her far-future audiodrama Epiphany.
Top of Show Greeting: Narahji
(Note, I am working on a transcript for this episode. It has been delayed by irregular baby napping.)
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Jake Malloy and David Peterson join George to talk about sign language as well as a few other ways humans communicate non-vocally.
Top of Show Greeting: Bakom
Links and Resources:
- SLIPA
- ASL Lessons
- ASL classifiers
- Non-manual markers in ASL
- ASL Internet slang
- Plains Indian Sign Language
- Tactile Signing
- Black ASL
- Signed Exact English (signed English relex)
- SignWriting (proposed script for ASL)
- The Non-Verbal Dictionary
- The Gripping Language
- Napoli, Donna Jo and Jeff Wu. (2003) Morpheme structure constraints on two-handed signs in American Sign Language: Notions of symmetry. Sign Language & Linguistics. 6(2), 123-205.
- Sandler, W., Aronoff, M., Meir, I., & Padden, C. (2011) The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 29(2), 503–543. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-011-9128-2
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George talks about how to listen to the language all around you like a conlanger, especially when you encounter weird specialized terms or senses of words.
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George talks a bit about his personal progress with Middle Pahran.
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David Salo comes on to talk about his historical research into George Dalgarno’s Lingua Philosophica, a 17th century philosophical language. We discuss the features of Dalgarno’s work, a little of how it compares to other work of the time and also its influence on the history of conlanging.
Top of Show Greeting: Lingua Philosophica (translated and read by David Salo)
Links and Resources
- Linguifex article
- The Works of George Dalgarno (19th century reprint of Dalgarno’s work)
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William is out for this month so we have Jake Malloy here to talk a bit about language policy, both official and unofficial, as well as a bit about language attitudes.
Top of Show Greeting: Shidhunarien
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I reflect a bit on Lexember 2016.
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Also please check out Phonetic Calligraphy on Tumblr and Facebook!
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George gives a quick update on the Paramount v Axanar case and the LCS’s part in it. This was previously discussed in episode 119. For more information, please see the Language Creation Society’s Axanar information page.
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Today we bring on Cecil Garvin to talk about Hoocąk a Siouan language still spoken in Wisconsin and on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska.
Top of Show Greeting: Ulazradũn
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This month we talk about grammatical number. What number distinctions can you make for a language (beyond singular and plural)? What do you mark for number? And how does number interact with agreement and other grammatical systems? We’ll help you with all of that. Read more »
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