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Prof. Pat Keating 
UCLA Linguistics Dept. 
3125 Campbell Hall 
Los Angeles CA 90095-1543  […]

The book will come out in Jan 2005. A paper by Pat Keating and can be found here:
F. Manis and P. Keating: "Speech Perception in Dyslexic Children With and
Without Language Impairments".  To appear in: H. W. Catts & A. G.
Kamhi
(Eds.).  The connections between language […]

William
D. O’Grady’s new book Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergenist Approach to Syntax is
supposed to come out in Jan 2005. It represents a kind of emergentist view of
language acquisition that puts the constrains in processing efficiency, rather
than the innate language faculty (Chomskyan) or the input per se
(connectionists). I guess that’s to say that language learning is […]

Lingua

Volume 115, Issue 7
,
July 2005,
Pages 997-1042

Abstract
Functional neuroimaging, within 10 years, has
produced evidence which leads us to question a number of the standard
assumptions about the areas […]

MT-Blacklist rolls out version 2.x. Not sure it’s compatible with 2.64,
as it seems to ben written with MT3 in mind. I’ve been using an earlier
version for over a year now. It’s way better than having no protection
all, although time is still wasted in manually adding new match
strings. Maybe I should give up mine […]

Nice snake.

11.5 Logging

The logging module offers
a full featured and flexible logging system. At its simplest, log
messages are sent to a file or to sys.stderr:

import logging logging.debug(’Debugging information’) logging.info(’Informational message’) logging.warning(’Warning:config file %s not found’, ’server.conf’) […]

It’s a good thing that LanguageHat is open for comments, something that LanguageLog hesitates (but has experimented) to do.
This one is about a blog entry by Sally Greene
on her dislike of the increasing popularity of noun-noun compounding in
English, particularly when there are existing adj-noun alternatives
available. Examples include "law department" instead of "legal
department", although […]