<h1 class="articleHead" style="float:left;font-size:20px;width:650px;margin:0px 0px 5px 5px;line-height:1.1em;color:rgb(51,102,51);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial;padding:3px 0px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Awakening language</h1><div class="bdySubTitle" style="clear:both;margin:0px 0px 5px 5px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:italic;font-family:Verdana,Arial,serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
SOU professor has students study, speak almost- forgotten words</div><div class="bdySubTitle" style="clear:both;margin:0px 0px 5px 5px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:italic;font-family:Verdana,Arial,serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<div class="noindex" style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial;font-style:normal;clear:left"><div class="bylineText" style="margin-top:5px;margin-left:5px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,serif">
<span class="by" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(51,102,51)!important"><br></span></div><div class="bylineText" style="margin-top:5px;margin-left:5px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,serif"><span class="by" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(51,102,51)!important">By </span><span class="byline" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(4,61,99)">Janet Eastman</span></div>
<div class="bylineExtra" style="margin-left:5px">Ashland Daily Tidings</div><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Posted: 2:00 AM December 24, 2012 <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">USA</span></div></div><div class="noindex" style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial;font-style:normal;clear:left">
<br></div><p class="articleGraf" style="font-size:12px;margin:0px 0px 10px 5px;line-height:1.5em;font-style:normal">The Southern Oregon University campus was quiet on Tuesday, since students have retreated for the holidays and most faculty and staff stayed home when a snow day was called.</p>
<p class="articleGraf" style="font-size:12px;margin:0px 0px 10px 5px;line-height:1.5em;font-style:normal">But if you listened closely in Taylor Hall, you may have heard about a Native American language that scholars believe was awakened from sleep, resurrected from implied extinction, with the help of Dr. Wesley Leonard.</p>
<p class="articleGraf" style="font-size:12px;margin:0px 0px 10px 5px;line-height:1.5em;font-style:normal">Leonard, a linguistic anthropologist and associate professor of Native American Studies, only arrived on campus a year ago and yet his research is changing the language of linguistics and his classes are transforming the way students perceive and study indigenous cultures and languages.</p>
<p class="articleGraf" style="margin:0px 0px 10px 5px;line-height:1.5em;font-style:normal"></p><p class="articleGraf" style="font-size:12px;margin:0px 0px 10px 5px;line-height:1.5em">Access full article below: </p><div><font size="1"><a href="http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121224/NEWS02/212240302/-1/NEWSMAP">http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121224/NEWS02/212240302/-1/NEWSMAP</a></font></div>
<p></p></div>