languagedetective

A residential course on linguistics for A level students

language detective links

  • Villiers Park Educational Trust
  • Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
  • A Level Linguistics Working Group
  • Educational Linguistics (at Dick Hudson's website)
  • Sounds Familiar? (British Library accents and dialects resource)
  • ICE-GB (British Component of the International Corpus of English)
  • Graeme Trousdale
  • Billy Clark
  • Linguistics Olympiads (from Dick Hudson's site)
  • Gifted and Talented

The Language Detective

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Welcome to the Language Detective website. This site contains links and downloads about a residential course we (Billy Clark, from Middlesex University, and Graeme Trousdale, from the University of Edinburgh) have been teaching at Villiers Park once a year since July 2007. We hope it's useful. Do let us know if you have any questions or anything.

Billy

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downloads: programme and linguistics sessions

  • language detective programme
  • So What Is Linguistics?
  • How To Be A Language Detective
  • How Languages Mean
  • Pattern in Language Structure
  • Explaining and Creating Meanings
  • Language Change
  • Becoming a Super Sleuth

downloads: student presentations

  • English: Is The 'Virus' Spreading?
  • French Regional Accents
  • Gender (and Turnips)
  • Germanic and Romance
  • idioms

Linguistics at School presentation 2009

  • Talk at 'Linguistics at School' conference, University of Cambridge 2009

LAGB Presentation 2007

  • LAGB Presentation 2007