Monday, December 10, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: December 10

Lila Gleitman



December 10

1904: With the ban on printing in Lithuanian recently lifted, the first daily newspaper in the language, the Vilnius Žinios begins publication.
 
1929: Birth of psycholinguist and language acquisitionist Lila Gleitman.
 
1996: A Unicode standard is proposed for writing Solrésol, one of the most eccentric artificial languages there is.

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