Linguistics Department at the Tucson Festival of Books

The Department of Linguistics participated in the 2015 Festival of Books in Science City!Some of the activities included:Syntax board: learn about how the sentence the man poked the monkey with a banana can have multiple meanings, and how we represent those meanings in our minds.Where in the brain do we process language? get involved in science by participating in our "science on the street" experiment about how the brain processes language.IPA nametags: get a nametag and see what your name looks like in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a single alphabetic system used to write all of the sounds of all of the world's languages!Waveforms: get a printout of a waveform...