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An overview of the scientific study of language.
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Image descriptions & credits, in order of appearance:
"Physics" (gather.com); "Genetics" (science.howstuffworks.com); "Chemistry" (chemgroups.northwestern.edu); linguist Dan Everett with Pirahã tribesman (languagesoftheworld.info); speech areas of the brain (brainchemist.wordpress.com); acoustic analysis of word boundaries (linguistics.ucla.edu); human speech organs (eweb.furman.edu); Sumerian cuneiform (pittkyle123.wordpress.com); teaching sign language to Nim Chimpsky, from the documentary "Project Nim" (ft.com); Python programming language (stackoverflow.com); adorable language-developing infant (ehow.com); the Earth (visibleearth.nasa.gov); American Sign Language for "interpreter" (uiowa.edu); example of a syntax tree (walkinthewords.blogspot.com); acoustic phonetics (davies-linguistics.byu.edu); MRI of human speech organs (en.wikipedia.org); the Rosetta Stone (citrinitas.com); linguist & anthropologist Edward Sapir (en.wikipedia.org); a "wug," devised by psycholinguist J. B. Gleason to study acquisition of the English plural in children (lingtastic.wordpress.com); field linguist Tucker Childs records a speaker of the endangered Kim language of Sierra Leone (nytimes.com)
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