{"id":2473,"date":"2011-03-28T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2011-03-26T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:17:56","slug":"linguistics-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/03\/28\/linguistics-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics at school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne O&#8217;Neil has recently returned from his annual (since 2000) March stay in Seattle, where he and his partner Maya Honda spent several days doing linguistics with David Pippin&#8217;s fourth- and fifth-graders at St Thomas School in Medina WA. On this occasion, &#8216;doing linguistics&#8217; focused on some aspects of English orthography: why, example, <em>civil<\/em>, <em>solemn<\/em>, and <em>moral<\/em> are spelt the way they are. However, Wayne was also required to give a spirited reading of the opening lines of Beowulf as a lead-in to a discussion of the history of the English language.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the work that Wayne and Maya have done in Seattle over the past decade is discussed in Honda, O&#8217;Neil, and Pippin&#8217;s paper &#8220;On promoting linguistics literacy: Bringing language science to the English classroom&#8221;, in Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck (ed.) <em>Linguistics at school: Language awareness in primary and secondary education<\/em>, 175-188 (Cambridge University Press, 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne O&#8217;Neil has recently returned from his annual (since 2000) March stay in Seattle, where he and his partner Maya Honda spent several days doing linguistics with David Pippin&#8217;s fourth- and fifth-graders at St Thomas School in Medina WA. On this occasion, &#8216;doing linguistics&#8217; focused on some aspects of English orthography: why, example, civil, solemn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}