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End of Winter Quarter Amazing Links!
- Ape Genius, a Nova program that is not yet out on DVD, so we couldn't show it in class, but it's available on line: very up to date research and shows many experiments we've read. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/program.html
- Maya recommends these talking cats, very cute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al6MRU5Mc9U
- I recommend this commercial from Dunkin Donuts called "Frtalian." We cannot be bothered with other languages: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2y_GwKzxck
- A great interview with Deborah Tannen about language and gender: http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2007/08/men_blah_blah_women_blah_blah_1.html
- A review of Turin's new book: Perfumes: The Guide: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/03/10/080310crbo_books_lanchester?currentPage=all
This website summarizes research on primates learning language. You might recognize the newsletter:
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-10-31.html#feature
Here is a website for help learning the IPA: http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/flash.html
A good film examining pre-history is Quest for Fire. We don't have time to show it in the program, but it's well done in terms of what was known about Cro-Magnons in the 1980s.
Pygmalion is a film about a phonetician who claims he can change a flower girl's dialect into a completely different one. We watched a few minutes of the film in class Monday, Oct. 22, and we encourage you to watch the entire film. It is in our library at the college.
