April 18
1861:
Paul Broca performs an autopsy on an aphasic who had died the previous
day. He thus “discovers” the area in the brain in which much language
processing is done, and which is now named after him.
1949:
Leonard Bloomfield, who in his 1933 book “Language” set the standards
of teaching in linguistics for decades to come, dies in New Haven.
2002:
China announces that it plans to spend about 1 million dollars on preserving
the Nüshu script, unique to the Hunan province and used only by women.
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