LINGUISTICS FOR EVERYONE - Links to Resources
LFE ad hoc committee, Fall 2014-Spring 2015, B. Pearson & J. Maling, co-chairs (committee information at end)
Posted on http://www.umass.edu/aae/bp_refs.htm#present for live links
Source Participants/ title link comment
I Inspirations, Models of Informal Science
NRC Surrounded by Science http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BOSE/DBASSE_072091 learning in informal environments
PNAS The Science of Communicating Sciencehttp://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_4.toc 16 September 2014; Vol. 111, No. Supplement 4
AAAS Annual meeting 2013: http://www.aaas.org/page/communicating-science-seminar-annual-meeting-2013full video recording 2014: http://www.aaas.org/page/2014-annual-meeting-communicating-science-seminar
Alan Alda/Stony Brook http://www.centerforcommunicatingscience.org/ Center for Communicating Science
http://www.centerforcommunicatingscience.org/the-flame-challenge-2/ Flame Challenge (explaining science to 11yr-old)
WBUR Rise of Pop Science ("explainer videos")http://www.wbur.org/npr/257552199/hot-on-youtube-videos-about-video-games-and-science-too
NSF VIZZIES (annual) http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/dates.jsp
Dance your Dissertation http://gonzolabs.org/dance/ 2014 winners announced 11/3
NYT Flora Lichtman, Sharon Shattuck http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/opinion/animated-life-seeing-the-invisible.html?ribbon-ad-idx=7&src=me&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Most%20Emailed&pgtype=article&_r=1Cool animation on Leeuwenhoek,
II. Informal Language Venues - Festivals and Museums
Festivals
UCL Summer Science http://royalsociety.org/summer-science/2011/noisy-world/
NSF/others USA Science and Engineering Festival http://www.usasciencefestival.org/ get ready for 2016
U AZ participants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kXK6W8s0II&list=UUQ9w295o073yPW_AVnxpEHA
UMD Maryland Day http://www.marylandday.umd.edu/mddayplanning/ Language Science participates
UCLA Int'l Voice Day http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/voiceproject/World%20Voice%20Day%20at%20UCLA%202014.html 16-Apr-14 example: phone app for height estimation from the speech signal. from Abeer Alwan Maikke Verrips http://www.drongofestival.nl/?lang=en Amsterdam-Hollebrande & Roeper do recursion experiment
Rome 2014 http://www.auditorium.com/eventi/festival/5622632?year_c=2014&month_c=01&view_day=0&day_c=23&pagina=0&tot_el=35
Museums
Canada (http://www.languagemuseum.ca/mission/)
Brazil http://www.museulinguaportuguesa.org.br/instalacoes.php
Cambridge Uin science museum http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/blog/2013/01/january-2013-listen-up-cbu-researchers-at-the-science-museum-in-london/
OSU COSI http://bln.osu.edu/LanguagePod.php Wagner, coordinator for linguistics lab in museum III. Linguists and Linguistics in Mainstream Media (positive coverage)
ADS Ben Zimmer & Anne Curzan http://www.americandialect.org/American-Dialect-Society-2014-Minneapolis-Paper-Abstracts.pdfEducating the Educated: Talking Ling in the Media (Globe, WSJ, Lingua Franca, NPR)
WSJ Ben Zimmer http://benzimmer.com/ Language columnist
NBC Today Show Jan '14 / Golder http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9351 of the Vaux & Golder Harvard Dialect Survey
NYT Blog Interactive Dialect Quiz (Josh Katz fromhttp://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ Vaux & Golder) most hits for NYT Blog 2013 (can't find on line currently)
Mets vs. Phillies http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/23/upshot/24-upshot-baseball.html
sub-vs. hoagie line http://www.buzzfeed.com/hillaryreinsberg/who-says-yall-and-10-other-maps-showing-where-americans-say(and some others)
ADS Word of the Year http://www.americandialect.org/woty lots of media coverage
IV. Social Media and the Internet
LSA YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.co/LingSocAm
On-line Movie List from L Wagner http://www.umass.edu/aae/bp_refs.htm#present pdf
keyword "linguistics" pages and pages of lectures, MOOCs, other visuals
Selected BLOGs
Language Hat http://languagehat.com/
Language Log http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
xkcd.com http://xkcd.com/1431/ cartoons!
The Language of Food http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/
A. Zwicky http://arnoldzwicky.org/
D. Baron, Web of Language http://illinois.edu/blog/view/25 (not active this fall?)
G. Pullum http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/author/gpullum/
Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/language_acquisition/ (or "mind_brain" for larger selection)
Twitter https://twitter.com/hashtag/linguistics just for starters
UCL #asksummerscience followup from science festival
TED Talk Anne Curzan https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_curzan_what_makes_a_word_real?language=en over a million views
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Linguistics Edit-a-thon at LSA2015, Sat 8 pm
See also LSA 2015, Saturday 9 am, Popularizing linguistics through online media V. School Programs (mostly K-14)
OSU http://linguistics.osu.edu/sliys summer program for H.S.
L. Green, UMass http://www.umass.edu/csaalhttp://www.umass.edu/csaal/sdrp/ (archived: REU on dialect research)
Milwaukee http://highschoollinguistics.blogspot.com Suzi Loosen (LSA L in School Curriculum committee)
Charity Hudley http://charityhudleymallinson.com/resources/secondaryenglish/ "doing language", from the book with Mallinson K. Denham http://www.kristindenham.net/ lots of concrete lesson plans
North Am. Computational Linguistics Olympiadhttp://www.nacloweb.org/ not necessarily computational
http://web.wheelock.edu/experts/expert/honda-maya
VI. Books (please add in to Hall of Fame)
K. Denham and A. Lobek https://chss.wwu.edu/english/english-faculty-kristin-denham Linguistics in the Schools 2010 w/video Walt Wolfram http://talkintarheel.com
http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/wolfram.php multiple
A. Charity Hudley http://annecharityhudley.com/ We Do Language
S. Pinker http://stevenpinker.com/ multiple
J. Rickford http://www.johnrickford.com/ Spoken Soul and many others
D. Tannen http://faculty.georgetown.edu/tannend/ You Just Don't Understand and others
M. Honda & W. O'Neil http://web.wheelock.edu/experts/expert/honda-maya/ http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/oneil/publications.html
L. Green http://people.umass.edu/lisag/ African American English, A Linguistic Introduction; Language and the AA Child
T. Roeper http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/prism-grammar Prism of Grammar
D.J. Napoli http://www.donnajonapoli.com/ Hands and Hearts (with sign language elements)
Hall of Fame: Labov, Nunberg, Chomsky (!), Baugh, McWhorter, Crystal, Bauer & Trudgill, Language Myths
Information about the "Linguistics/ Language Science For Everyone" (LFE) ad hoc Committee
(Fragile) criterion for inclusion of resources: "doing language science" (with language per se as the object of inquiry) for non-traditional audiences
vs. applied linguistics, using the science of language for other issues.
Members
Cecile McKee, University of Arizona, festivals specialist, on behalf of a team of students, faculty and community volunteers
Colin Phillips & Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland, schools specialists, on behalf of a large team of students and faculty in Language Science programs
Laura Wagner, Ohio State University, museums and informal venues specialist, with Cynthia Clopper, Kathryn Kibler-Campbell,Leslie Moore, Shari Speer, and Kiwako Ito
Venues Kiwako Ito, Leslie C. Moore, Shari Speer
November 2014, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Poster Symposium, Boston
January 2015, Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Organized Session (Fri. 9 am) and associated posters, Portland OR
February 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Family Science Days, Booth 36, San Jose, CA
(Student and some faculty travel for LFE presentations is supported in part by NSF supplement BCS-1452266 to Colin Phillips, PI.)