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Advanced Face Tracking Technology
Each day PDAs, cell phones, and computers represent a larger piece of what we do. Increasingly, these tools are incorporating video capability to allow them to […]

A Well-kept Secret of Mediaeval Science: the Voynich manuscript
Gabriel Landini (Lecturer in Analytical Pathology, School of Dentistry) and Ren�� Zandbergen (System Analyst and Consultant in the Space Sector, Darmstadt, Germany).
Note: this article first appeared in the July 1998 issue of ´Aesculapius´, the journal […]

PsycREF automatically adds links within each abstract in PsycINFO and at the end of each reference citation in PsycARTICLES to related primary and secondary literature. Researchers with access to these databases can now click their way from the reference list in an electronic article, to the PsycINFO abstract of a […]

J Child Lang. 1989 Jun;16(2):365-86.
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Acquisition of Pig Latin: a case study.Cowan N.A boy´s acquisition of Pig Latin was monitored throughout the year preceding first grade. Abilities underlying this game include the identification of words, deletion of the first syllabic onset (i.e. prevocalic consonants) of each word, […]

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Explicit speech segmentation and syllabic onset structure: developmental trends.Bertelson P, de Gelder B, van Zon M.Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. portlsn.ulb.ac.beRecent applications of the hierarchical theory of the syllable to the development of explicit speech segmentation are critically examined. One […]

AMPR
AMPR is a program for computing the phonological plausibility of spellings. It is designed specifically to evaluate early spellings by children, at a level of development where it is useful to tease apart spellings that are random strings of letters from spellings that (are beginning […]

Rebecca Treiman

Tests and stimuli.

Scoring key for composite scoring measure of T-BEST ( Treiman & Bourassa, 2000; Bourassa & Treiman, in press): PDF file.
Reading test from Treiman & Rodriguez (1999) and later articles:

Test (Word document)
Data (Excel spreadsheet)
Free-choice and two-choice letter name and sound tasks from Treiman et al. (1998) […]

Journal of Educational Psychology
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Steven H. Weinberger at GMU, for Ling692, Spring 2004
Play Languages

Bagemihl, B. 1988 The Morphology and Phonology of Katajjait (Inuit Throat […]

Hombert, J.-M., 1986, “Word games: some implications for analysis of tone and other phonological constructs”, in Experimental phonology, J. Ohala and J. Yaeger (eds), Academic Press, pp. 175-186 ( PDF )

The Secret Languages of Children: Eaking-spay Ig-pay Atin-lay

Author: Kara VanDamPublished on: April 15, 2001
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Growing up, most of us had a ´secret language´ that we spoke to our friends. […]

TUT is a secret reading method created by black American slaves. This was done at a time when it was against the law for them to learn to read.

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This site contains the following sections:
Writing SystemsInformation about over 200 different writing systems. Each page contains an illustration of a writing system; details of its origin, usage, notable features and the language(s) written with it; a sample text, and useful links.
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 16:02:24 ESSum: Subphonemic writing From: Joseph C. Salmons <salmons@mace.cc.purdue.edu>Subject: Sum: Subphonemic writing
The considerable response to the query about subphonemic writing warrants a summary […]

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Head-dependence in Jerigonza, a Spanish language game

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Carlos-Eduardo Pineros <carlos-eduardo-pineros@uiowa.edu> [Details]

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18 pp. Requires SIL IPA font

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Head-dependence in Jerigonza, a Spanish language game Carlos-Eduardo Pineros Central Michigan University Jerigonza is a language game used to disguise Spanish words by adding epenthetic CV-syllables (e.g. ��r.CV.t��.CV < […]

“As you know, these are open forums, you´re able to come and listen to what I have to say.” –George W. Bush, 10.28.03.

April 27, 2004
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President George W. Bush, the only president we´ve got, said the following in his speech promoting broadband internet access:

“Now, the use of broadband has tripled since 2000 from 7 million subscriber lines to 24 million,” Bush said. “That´s good. But that´s way […]

Modeling the effects of intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, amount of reading, and past reading […]