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Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them to reveal clues into human history can require decades of painstaking work. Now, UC Berkeley scientists have created an automated “time machine,” of sorts, that will greatly accelerate and improve the process of reconstructing hundreds of ancestral languages.
Tag: language
Linguistics students explore communication in ‘Journey’ video game
March 16, 2012:
In a series of videos presented by GameSpot, UC Berkeley linguistics students analyze the communication system of the video game “Journey,” in which players interact without words or text.
Researchers give low marks to California’s English proficiency test for kindergartners
September 16, 2011:
Most of the thousands of four- and five-year-olds who take California’s official test for English language proficiency before they start kindergarten are bound to fail that exam, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study.
California Language Archive clicks with multiple resources
June 20, 2011:
The new California Language Archive (CLA) website at UC Berkeley – the largest indigenous language archive at a U.S. university – is now accessible free of charge to anyone with Internet access.
On the Same Page gets new students talking with voice sample map
June 14, 2011:
With a welcome video and an experiment mapping the voices of this year’s incoming class, the L&S program On the Same Page is highlighting the linguistic diversity of UC Berkeley.
On the Same Page spotlights the languages of Berkeley
April 21, 2011:
Language, a uniquely human tool, links minds to one another across space and time. Few places on earth have more language diversity than UC Berkeley. So it’s fitting that language itself will take center stage at Cal this fall, thanks to the On the Same Page program sponsored by the College of Letters and Science.
Bringing poetry, music and memories to the language syllabus
January 25, 2011:
Professor of German Claire Kramsch is working to bring the emotional, human aspect to language learning, melding the mother tongue with the new language to help students see there is more than one way of looking at the world.
