<< “It’s not just about rescuing some cute little language,” Goddard added.
“It’s learning about human intellectual capacity in general. The goal
is to find the universal hard-wired blueprint for language everyone is
born with.” >><br><div style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left;text-decoration:none;border:medium none"><br>*sigh*<br><br>Jordan<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
University of Utah Shifts Focus to Tribal Languages, Some Fear World<br>
Indigenous Languages Will Be Left Behind<br>
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By ICTMN Staff October 3, 2012<br>
USA<br>
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At the end of August, the University of Utah announced that the Center<br>
for American Indian Languages (CAIL) would be dissolved into the<br>
American West Center (AWC) and that CAIL’s Native American language<br>
training and study programs would be moving to the Language Center in<br>
the College of Humanities.<br>
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“This restructuring will allow us to focus more effectively on our<br>
unwavering commitment to the Utah tribes, eliminating duplication<br>
while enhancing our current projects and developing new ones,” said<br>
Robert Newman, Dean of the College of Humanities, in a university<br>
release. “Merging existent programs from within CAIL combined with the<br>
solid leadership we have in the American West and Language Centers is<br>
clearly the most efficient way to accomplish these goals.”<br>
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Not everyone sees this as a positive step though, including Jeff<br>
Pynes, a Ph.D. student whose work focuses on the Tolupan of Central<br>
America, and Ives Goddard, a senior linguist with the Smithsonian<br>
Institution.<br>
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