Language

Topics

• Evolution
  • Evolution of language
• Computation
  • Language detection

• Development and learning

  • Language development
  • Learning

• Language of thought

• Linguistic diversity
• Linguistic network
• Linguistic relativity
• Machine translation
• Metaphor
• WALS
• Zipf’s law

World languages

• English

Scientific findings

• Unsupervised learning of natural languages
• science:Language Control in the Bilingual Brain
• Consonants tell us where words begin, what about vowels?

• science:Wired for Language > patients with damage to the brain’s arcuate fasciculus, which consists of multiple bundles of nerve fibers that connect Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, have severe difficulty speaking and understanding others. And a number of recent studies suggest that the brains of humans are wired somewhat differently than those of other primates (Science, 2 March 2007, p. 1208 ).

• http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/11/revisiting_foxp2_and_the_origins_of_language.php

Positivity of languages

• Happiness
• Human language reveals a universal positivity bias

Learning foreign languages

• http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php
• http://freelanguage.org/
• http://www.internetpolyglot.com/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

Social network + language learning

• http://lang-8.com/
• http://www.italki.com
• http://www.babbel.com/
• http://www.busuu.com
• http://www.edufire.com
• http://www.lingueo.com
• http://www.livemocha.com/
• http://www.myngle.com/
• http://www.scuttlepad.com/
• http://togetherville.com/

References

• Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame