Videos on language

[Nancy Elliott]

"can chimps talk?" is a nova episode from the late 80s or early 90s; i still
use my aging copy of it in class because it is so good.

nancy elliot
american language academy, ashland, oregon

> From: AAllan at AOL.COM
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:38:58 EST
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Videos on language
>
> Does anyone know a convenient source for videos like these? - Allan Metcalf
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>>> Dear Sir
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>
> I am teaching a course in "Preparation for Linguistics" at Kansai Gaidai
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> University in Osaka, Japan.  I would like to liven it up a little bit with
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> videos, so I have been searching the internet for sources.  The American
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> Dialect Society:  References page mentions a number of interesting-looking
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> materials, such as: "Genie" "Can Chimps Talk?" "Baby Talk" Videos on Franz
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> Boas etc.  Are such materials available?  Can they be purchased?  If so, how
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> and where?  I hope you don't mind my inquiring--but we have already
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> discussed Language Acquisition, Primate Studies, Language and Culture, etc.
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> and now we are discussing dialects.  So you can see, many of these materials
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> would be very appropriate, at least when I teach the course again next year.
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> Sincerely
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>
> Richard W. Cleveland<<
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> richardc at kansai-gaidai-u.ac.jp