Useful Links

On this page I will post direct links to some of the resources that we’ll talk about in class or any general useful linguistics links.

Video clips related to our discussion of animal communication systems
Spiders courtship gesturing
Fiddler crabs claw-waving
Bees dancing
Conversations with KOKO
Project Nim (Chimpsky) movie trailer

Prescriptivism vs. descriptivism

http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/correct/prescriptivism/

http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/correct/gatekeeping/

http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/correct/decline/

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/09/27/which-language-and-grammar-rules-to-flout

The barbarians have done it.

And a song for fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc