blogged find better blogs
HomeTechnologyEntertainmentSportsPoliticsBusinessHumorWorld NewsLifestyleDirectoryMore Topics
Blog Detail
Babel's Dawn

A blog about the origins of speech.
Babel's Dawn Blog  
Listed in: Education > Languages
Related Topics: languages, linguistics, speech
Author: Edmund Blair B.
Visit this blog on Facebook for more info.
Related Blogs
previous blog next blog

8 Users are Following

8.5
great
based on editor's review
1 user review 9.0


recent postsrss feed

Nova on Human Origins

Nov 17, 2009
I just watched the third part of the PBS television series on "Becoming Human." It barely discussed the origins of speech or language, which I suppose is just as well. Better to say nothing than to say something superficial and pretend that it is the...

Thanks

Nov 16, 2009
Thanks to Angela Peterson whose list of 100 Best Blogs for Psychology Students puts Babel's Dawn at number 34.

The FOXP2 Molecular Network Begins Taking Shape

Nov 15, 2009
The FOXP2 gene as illustrated by Simon Fisher (Oriel College, Oxford), the investigator who first isolated the FOXP2 gene. Download PDF version of this post A letter to the current issue of Nature has caused a stir among those interested...

The Helping Impulse

Nov 8, 2009
Human children around the world are put in the care of adults who are not their mothers. It is so common we take it for granted, but it is very unusual among apes. Download a PDF file of this post I’ve just read an article in the latest journal of...

A New Linguistic Process?

Nov 1, 2009
Download PDF of this post Here’s a book with a novel thesis: the English language has been, to coin a term, Vikingized. A creolized language is a grossly simple pidgin language that has been turned into a syntactically-complex mother tongue. A...


Comments & Reviews:


Elizabeth Ba...
9.0
excellent
  As a hobby-linguist, I'm thrilled to find a whole blog on the topic of language origins. This is much more satisfying than an article here, a snippet there.
Was this review helpful to you?
HelpfulNot UsefulReport Abuse
Posted 1/25/09 2:01 PM