Saturday, November 24, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: November 24

Alvin Liberman


November 24 

1916: Birth of Frank Mihalic, compiler of the first Tok Pisin dictionary.
 
1967: Alvin Liberman, Franklin Cooper, Donald Shankweiler, and Michael Studdert-Kennedy publish their classic article “Perception of the Speech Code” in Psychological Review.

1982: Basque and Spanish are both recognized as “official” languages of the Basque country, while giving only the former the status of “proper language of the Basque country.”

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