Linguists receive $260,000 grant to study endangered Irish language (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

*Linguists receive $260,000 grant to study endangered Irish language*

September 22, 2014

By Scott Rappaport

“Although we all have tongues, we are surprisingly bad at knowing precisely
what they're doing or conveying that to others,” says UC Santa Cruz
professor of linguistics Jaye Padgett.

Tongue motion, it turns out, is crucial to the documentation of endangered
languages.

Who knew?

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http://news.ucsc.edu/2014/09/linguistics-irish-tongue.html​
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