BAPFOHL
May 2, 2001
The family of human language(s)


1. The Tower of Babel

• The Summer Institute of Linguistics studies every human language it can find, including the languages of Taiwan



• Some people still believe the Tower of Babel myth!

2. Language universals and variation

• Some notes about language universals

3. The evolution of languages

• My notes about language change from my old undergraduate class



• Lots of stuff about memes
  (Actually, the Internet loves memes. Instead of spreading them to you, I'll let you search for them yourself if you're interested!)

4. Language fossils

• A computer program that automatically does historical sound changes