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Summary Of The Creative Language Modeling Project, Trent M. Pehrson, Dr. Cynthia Hallen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Creative language modeling (CLM) is a method of teaching linguistics principles to high school level students. In CLM, students learn about language principles by systematically designing an artificial language. The premise of CLM is that students can learn and retain language principles more readily when such principles are associated with creative experiences that give the student a personal stake in the learning process.

A Name Puzzle, Harold Jacobs

Word Ways

A puzzle.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 47, Number 1

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue including the table of contents.

Asatrain? Elementary!, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle.

X'S Things, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In the November 2013 issue of Word Ways, the plea was made for other items like XANTHIPPE'S SHREW - that is, a name beginning with X, followed by an apostrophe, an S, and then a final term.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

The National Puzzlers' League, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The editorship of Word Ways brought me into contact with the National Puzzlers' League. Founded in New York City on July 4 1883 as the Eastern Puzzlers' League, this organization has for more than a century been dedicated to the construction and solution of rhymed word puzzles, a pastime as popular in the nineteenth century as the crossword is today.

Perfect Roman Windows, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

The February 2000 issue of Word Ways introduced readers to the concept of Roman windows - text passages which coincidentally contain all seven letters used in Roman numerals.

Anagramming Co-Authors, Solomon W. Golomb

Word Ways

A British mathematician, I.J. Good, who was a veteran of the World War II codebreaking group at Bletchley Park, once published a paper listing "k. Caj Doog" as co-author (an obvious rearrangement of the letters of Jack Good). When asked subsequently about the status of his collaborator, Good replied that he lost contact with Doog after the Chinese Communists overran Tibet.

Punk Whiz 22, . Anil

Word Ways

A Pun Quiz.

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Anagram Quiz 11, . Anil

Word Ways

The clues are both anagrams and 'definitions' of the answers.

Book Review: Schottenfreude, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

Review of Ben Schott's Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition.

More Magic - Part I, Oscar Thumpbindle

Word Ways

Once again Word Ways has received a manuscript from the elusive Thumpbindle. We still have not met him face-to-face but admire his ability to rehash old topics with a fresh twist. The Editor.

"This Is A Misprint" New Funny Bloopers And Arch Ripostes, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

Decades ago, ads touting merchandise at bargain prices often came equipped with a screaming headline: "This is not a misprint!" A Google search reveals that the phrase is still in use, though the word misprint has a somewhat archaic ring.

Half-Alfabed Libaglamce, . Anil

Word Ways

Half-alphabet lipograms (HALs) limit words to half of the alphabet. The title is limited to A-M. Any other way of dividing the alphabet in two is also included. The challenge is to convert ordinary prose into HALs by crook or innuendo and leave the text readable.

Book Review

Word Ways

A review of The Little Dictionary of Big Words You Should Know by Dr. Ian Wilson.

Eye Sea Ewe, Daniel W. Galef

Word Ways

One thing I have gotten tired and sick of over the course of several hundred meetings and introductions is spelling my name.

Poetic Quiz, Ann-Rulon Miller

Word Ways

A Poem.

Ei Bin Der, Ei Dann Dat, Daniel W. Galef

Word Ways

Words (German and English) that share both a spelling and a pronunciation (roughly).

Quatrains On Anagrams, Daniel Galef

Word Ways

Below are ten simple quatrains, the title of each of which has been struck out in favor of a series of underscores denoting the position of the letters.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles in this issue.

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors and back cover of this issue.

Ins And Outs - 1, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

When one is aware of the intricacies of a particular situation, we say that he or she knows all of its ins and outs. The matching quiz that follows affords you the opportunity to make the same claim.

Antonymic Couplets, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

An antonymic couplet consists of a pair of two-word phrases in which the first words are adjectives that are antonyms of one another and the second words are rhyming nouns.

Linguistics And Law: An Assessment Of Linguistic Contributions In The Courtroom, Jordan Toone, Dr. Cynthia Hallen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Linguistics has provided critical and clarifying evidence in the courtroom for decades. Not only have linguists and linguistic theory assisted the upholding of U.S. law but both have provided professional expertise in disputes throughout the world. The exciting correlation between linguistics and law has long been developing, while the assessment and evaluation of the relationship is in its infant stage and is yet to be fully established in professional research and publication.

Tsunami Relief What The People Need, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities News

• Department of Writing and Linguistics presents Andrew Hudgins in collaboration with Georgia Poetry Circuit

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• Department of Writing and Linguistics presents Andrew Hudgins in collaboration with Georgia Poetry Circuit

Simple Contextualism About Epistemic Modals Is Incorrect, Benjamin Lennertz

Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications

I argue against a simple contextualist account of epistemic modals. My argument, like theargument on which it is based (von Fintel and Gillies 2011 and MacFarlane 2011), charges thatsimple contextualism cannot explain all of the conversational data about uses of epistemicmodals. My argument improves on its predecessor by insulating itself from recent contextualistattempts by Janice Dowell (2011) and Igor Yanovich (2014) to get around that argument. Inparticular, I use linguistic data to show that an utterance of an epistemic modal sentence can bewarranted, while an utterance of its suggested simple contextualist paraphrase is not.