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Anthropology
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Classics
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English
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Language
East
Asian Languages
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Language
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Language
Romance
Languages
Speech
and Hearing
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Linguistics
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Related Programs
Anthropology
Department
Classics
Department
English
as a Foreign
Language
East
Asian Languages
German Language
Russian
Language
Romance
Languages
Speech
and Hearing
Language
Center
Linguistics
Web Page
Links
Questions
about the
program
Webmaster: Richard Robin
This
page was last updated
February 2, 2005.
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LINGUISTICS
PROGRAM
Linguistic
Factoids
| Anthropological
linguistics |
New
Guinea
(slightly bigger than Texas) with a population of
6 million (less than New York City) is home to over 600 languages. |
| Historical
linguistics |
Italian lingua,
Croatian jezik,
German Zunge,
and English tongue
all come from the same Indoeuropean
word. |
| Neurolingistics |
A
Scottish woman suffered a mild stroke and woke
up with a South African accent. |
| Language
acquisition |
Infants
as young as one month can distinguish between
such similar sounds as [p] and [b]. |
| Sociolinguistics |
Did
someone start answering your question with "Well..."?
Watch out! They might be fudging the answer. |
| Theoretical
linguistics |
Our
"chaotic" English spelling is in fact a largely
accurate representation of the underlying phonological rules of the
language. |
LINGUISTICS
PROGRAM
Committee
on Linguistics
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Linda M.
Bland-Stewart, Assistant
Professor in the Speech and Hearing Department, holds a Ph.
D. from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). She serves as
coordinator and supervisor of the Pediatric Clinics. Her main interests
are language development, language-learning disorders and multicultural
issues in communication.
E-mail: lindambl@gwu.edu |
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Shoko
Hamano
is Assistant Professor of Japanese with a PhD from the University of
Florida. Among her main interests are sound symbolism, Japanese
linguistics, and Japanese language pedagogy. E-mail: hamano@gwu.edu
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Young-Key
Kim-Renaud
is Professor
of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs.
She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics (U. of Hawaii, 1974). Her work has had
a major influence on Korean linguistics. Her current research centers
on Korean honorifics.
E-mail: kimrenau@gwu.edu.
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Joel
Kuipers (Chair) is
Professor of Anthropology and International
Affairs (Ph.D. 1982, Yale). Linguistic anthropology, ethnography of
speaking, sociolinguistics, ethnoscience, ritual, gender, politics of
culture, Indonesia. E-mail: kuipers@gwu.edu
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Richard
Robin,
Associate Professor of Slavic
Languages and International
Affairs, received his PhD from the
University of Michigan. His main interests are in language padagogy. He
is one of the author of Golosa:
A
Beginning Course in Russian, a
proficiency-based program.
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