Archive for April, 2007
07-04-30
Tags:English History Linguistics Paperville spelling
I can only begin but not finish Johnson’s Preface to the Dictionary.
Re the unfortunate soul; are we any better?
[2] Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pionier of […]
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07-04-29
Tags:English History Linguistics Paperville spelling
Excerpts from Johnson’s Plan of an English Dictionary, with emphases added.
After a long self-doubt — self pitty some times — Johnson arrived at the first substantive issue: What is this a dictionary of?
In the first attempt to methodise my ideas I found a difficulty, […]
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07-04-29
Tags:Education Paperville statistics Teaching Richard A. Berk at UCLA Stats dept published a paper entitled Randomized Experiments as the Bronze Standard
ABSTRACT:In this paper, the strengths and weakness of randomized field […]
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07-04-28
Tags:English History Linguistics Paperville Research spelling
Jack Lynch has a collection of texts from Samuel Johnson. Of interests to me are:
A Plan of an English Dictionary
Preface to the Dictionary
Crystal (Cambridge Encyc of English, p. 74) mentioned that Johnson began with a prescriptive vision of the dictionary (in the Plan) but ended […]
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07-04-28
Tags:Education English Linguistics Paperville spelling Teaching Among the many treasures there is Webster’s enomoursly popular speller, said to have sold a million copies a year in the […]
In searching for Noah Webser’s "The American Spelling Book" I was directed to this site Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read
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07-04-26
Tags:English History Linguistics spelling 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading PREFATORY NOTE.
_In presenting this, the seventh book of the "1001 Question and Answer Series," we feel that a great want is partially met. It is evident, from the number of inquiries made for such a book, that the works devoted […]
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07-04-26
Tags:Education English History Linguistics Paperville spelling Internet Archive Search: spelling AND subject:"English language — Orthography and spelling"
Internet Archive has a number of books on spelling and orthography of English.
English spelling and spelling reform - Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford, 1838-1915Includes indexesKeywords: English language — Orthography and spelling; Spelling reform
Proposals for a simplified […]
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07-04-25
Tags:Computing This happened more than a year ago when I tried to flash the firmware of the router. The result was that I now have a doorblock that wouldn’t start. But there is hope.
Recover from a Bad Flash - WRT Wiki
So, you’re afraid you’ve bricked your router. Don’t worry, there are a number of things you […]
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07-04-23
Tags:Education statistics Teaching Department of Ed released this report on Apr 19, 1 day before the Reading First hearing: Reading First: Student Achievement, Teacher Empowerment, National Success Reading First is working. Reading First is the largest and most effective federal early reading initiative in our nation’s history.
The report (PDF (128 KB)) states:
New achievement data reported by the […]
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07-04-21
Tags: This is the first time I heard these connections: Key Initiative Of ‘No Child’ Under Federal Investigation - washingtonpost.com
On the money side:
Doherty, one of the two Education Department employees who oversaw the initiative, acknowledged yesterday that his wife had worked for a decade as a paid consultant for a reading program, Direct Instruction, that investigators said […]
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07-04-21
Tags:Linguistics I have always had a sense of uncertainty with words such as "compose" and "comprise" — as a second language speaker, I was never sure whether I should use them in the passive or active voice.
Well, all it took was a look up on dictionary.com.
comprise - Definitions from Dictionary.com
—Usage note: Comprise has had […]
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07-04-20
Tags:Education politics reading first Teaching We discussed Reading First a couple of weeks ago in my seminar on reading development. In one of the assigned readings, Rudalevige (2003) predicted that make it or break it issue in NCLB is the implementation, because the law itself is essentially a massive bundle of compromises and […]
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07-04-19
Tags:Linguistics reading spelling Teaching The source of this story is attributed to Phil Gough. I am guilty of not reading Phil’s work carefully, but I believe this is the first time I heard this story. What strikes me is that the author — possibly Phil? — assumes that the Latin, Greek, or Hebrew […]
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07-04-18
Tags:Computing google Linguistics statistics The latest email from LDC announced the 15th anneversary of the consortium, along with free copies of Google Web 1T 5-gram database. I paied $150 for it, but it’s still a steal. Now you get a better deal than stealing.
Free Google Data Available
The LDC is pleased to […]
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07-04-17
Tags:Research The Tectonics of Western Expression is the Ch3 of Lanham’s "Economy of attention" book online. It contains two versionso of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Spring And Fall.
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There is a slight difference from the print version, though. The Scriptio Continua version is in 20 letter column, where here it’s about 12 letters. 20 letter […]
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07-04-14
Tags:psychology symbol system writing system Cognition and Brain Lab: Publications Szekely, A., Jacobsen, T., D’Amico, S., Devescovi, A., Andonova, E., Herron, D., Lu, C., Pechmann, T., Pléh, C., Wicha, N., Federmeier, K., Gerdjikova, I., Gutierrez, G., Hung, D., Hsu, J., Iyer, G., Kohnert, K., Mehotcheva, T., Orozco-Figueroa, A., Tzeng, A., and […]
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07-04-14
Tags:Paperville Profiles From Ruth Millikan’s home page My research interests span many topics in the philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and ontology. The unity is in method rather than subject matter. The aspects of these fields that interest me are continuous with relevant scientific work and with the philosophy […]
Ruth G. Millikan
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07-04-14
Tags:evolution Linguistics reading Research symbol system Teaching STEPHEN JAY GOULD: THE PATTERN OF LIFE’S HISTORY
Natural selection didn’t build our brains to write or to read, that’s for sure, because we didn’t do those things for so long.
This quote, or similar sentiments, has been widely used to support the notion that […]
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07-04-13
Tags:Computing eye movement Research Watch List Smart Eye - if you want reality SMART EYE PRO 4.0 RELEASED! Smart Eye Pro 4.0 is, basically, the improvement of two dimensions of eye tracking. We have combined the accuracy of corneal reflection with the head box of image processing. By using up to six cameras […]
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07-04-07
Tags:psychology Research Bouma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I, too, encountered this in Saenger’s book, but I doubt he invented it. The term bouma (pronounced "bowma") is sometimes used in the work of cognitive psychology to mean the shape of a cluster of letters, often a whole word.
Some typographers believe that, when reading, people […]
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