#jean berko gleason

[queriesntheories]

Hello linguistics side of tumblr! I present thee with an offering:

A Wug Picrew! Featuring many hats, a wug that can sit on your head, fairy lights, feet, a bonus linguistics reference, and many pride flags!

Share 'em far and wide! Have fun making your own wugsona :D

If Jean Berko Gleason does want me to take this down for any reason I will happily do so- I'm just trying to make the linguistics community a little more fun lol

[1partarsenic2partsgin]

I payed 150 dollars for an online on textbook.

The Development of Language, Tenth Edition by Jean Berko Gleason, Nan Bernstein Ratner

Here is Google doc if you need it:

[reportwire]

Podcast Episode #1095: “Saliva and Frog Puppets”

Podcast Episode #1095: “Saliva and Frog Puppets”

In Podcast Episode #1095, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue. Remember, our Patreon donors, on most levels, get access to each podcast episode before it is made public. Jean Berko Gleason encounters: “A Salivary Collection Method for Young Children,” Laura K. Zimmermann, Psychophysiology, vol. 45, no. 3,…

[bookishbrigitta]

Late, but can’t resist this pun! Much love to my linguistics peeps--I made this for you (with a lot of help from Jean Berko Gleason)!

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

[nicolekidmanwigfactory]

a gay linguistics joke if it was written by a straight person

Developmental linguist: This is a wug. There is one wug. Now there are two. There are two ____.

27 month old gay baby: 'Wug?' What in Judy Garland's grave is a 'wug?' *CACKLES* You basic bitch, you know it's supposed to be 'wig,' as in the thing torn from my scalp when you tried to pull this 'wug' shit over on me.

27 month old gay baby: (poses like a drag queen from an Adam Ellis cartoon*

[allthingslinguistic]

Linguistics takes on the Hallelujah meme 

This is a wug, a novel word. It's new to you (it's not a bird) You don't already know its plural, do ya? And now you see another one. There are two of them, two that come. Two ___ you say, such grammar, hallelujah!

Kids’ rules are strong but we needed proof, So Berko showed us all the truth; The beauty of her work sends shivers through you. The task she gave them wasn’t hard: She showed them pictures drawn on cards And from their lips drew plurals, hallelujah!

[linguist-breakaribecca]

In honor of @chatwiththeclouds return to tumblinguisticsland!

[superlinguo]

Superlinguo Seasonal Gift Guide 2019

One of the obviously differences between early years of the Superlinguo gift guide and later editions is that I decided to start making the kinds if linguistics-themed items that I wanted to see in the world. Thanks to the rise of print-on-demand product services like RedBubble, CafePress and Zazzle there are so many more linguistics-themed products than there used to be!

Whether you’re shopping for the Christmas season or the conference season, here are some of my favourite recommendations! If you’re trying to avoid buying things, then I’ve got some clutter-free suggestions as well (podcast subscriptions! Audio books!).

Lingthusiasm swag

It’s not a surprise I’m going to recommend checking out the Lingthusiasm store - one of the best things about running your own merch store is that you get to fill it with things you really like! We use RedBubble to print on demand (except the ties which are done through Zazzle), so check out their shipping deadlines (and keep an eye out for their regular sales!).

The latest Lingthusiasm merch includes:

Lingthustiastic socks! (International Phonetic Alphabet, tree diagrams, and esoteric symbols in a variety of colours

New word art design: LINGUISTIC "CORRECTNESS" IS JUST A LIE FROM BIG GRAMMAR TO SELL MORE GRAMMARS, which is available on shirts, totes, mugs, and zippered pouches,

 A few new items with IPA-themed puns, so you can have glottals on your bottles or liquids around your liquids!

greeting cards with "thanks" or "congrats" on them in the International Phonetic Alphabet

You can also still get our three prints (IPA, trees, symbols) in various colours on scarves, notebooks, mugs and ties, and a variety of other lingthusiastic gifts.

Other RedBubble linguists

You can bundle purchases on RedBubble to make the most of a sale, or save on shipping.

The Vocal Fries podcast has some themed merch (I particularly love the ‘they go low, we go lower’ mug.)

jazzmoth has fun and colour (Party Chomsky! and other hand-drawn linguistics designs)

shapkaa (OT ☞ manicule series and colourful clipart aesthetic)

gillianembers (black and white text aesthetic)

Other linguistics merch online

Arrant Pedantry has a spreadshirt store with linguistics and editing merch.

If you want wugs head to Jean Berko Gleason’s official Wug Store over on Cafe Press.

Books! Print and Audio!

Below are the books I’ve been excited about this year. I can confirm that the audiobooks for both Because Internet and Shadowscent are excellent.

Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch (Same snazzy cover, but different subtitles in the US and UK.

Shadowscent, P.M. Freestone (AKA as The Darkest Bloom in the UK) - I created a conlang for this fast-paced big-hearted YA fantasy adventure

Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power, David Adger

The Dictionary of Difficult Words, Jane Solomon & Louise Lockhart

You can also get a subscription to The Big Issue and have By Lingo delivered to your door every fortnight!

Support your favourite linguistics podcast and creators

There are lots of great language and linguistics podcasts, and many of them have Patreon pages where you can support your favourite show, get an inside view of the show, and sometimes even get bonus content.

Lingthusiasm (at the $15 level you get you own IPA character and a place on our supporter wall)

History of English

Vocal Fries

Talk the Talk

You can also be a patron of Etymonline, support an amazing free resource and and get behind-the-scenes look at how an etymological dictionary is created.

Previous Superlinguo gift guides:

Superlinguo Seasonal Gift Guide (2018)

Superlinguo Seasonal Gift Guide (2017)

Gifts for the Wordnerd in your life (2016)

Seasonal Gift Guide for Word Nerds and Language Lovers (2015)

Gift Guide for the Language Lover in Your Life (2013)

(note that some links in these posts may no longer be active)

[acommonrose]

Okay, I’m hoping that most of my followers don’t need to be lectured about why AO3 and the OTW are good things, but since these debates keep cropping up on this hellsite and there’s a niche linguistics story where the OTW was somewhat involved, I thought I’d share.

Anyways, this is a wug. The fact that the only image I could find at a very small size has a registered trademark symbol is, uh, interesting for reasons that will become clear later. Anyways, something similar to the above image was used in a very important child language acquisition study, where children would be asked what word to use if there were “two of them” to see at what age children could pluralize the word wug correctly.

This is, as I said, a very famous and important experiment, and also wugs are very cute, so it’s become kind of a mascot among linguists (and has, of course, been turned into many fantastic memes). Since it got big (in the past few decades, long after the original experiment), the creator of the original wug, Jean Berko Gleason, started selling wug merch with the above design (as well she should). She applied for a trademark on the above image, which was only accepted as a “supplemental” registered trademark, which basically means it fails to fit the criteria for the main registry. Because of this, the mark holder (JBG in this case) does NOT have exclusive use over the mark but can in fact use that nice little registered trademark symbol. (It’s also worth noting that a wug image without the “this is a wug” text is not trademarked.) JBG also has a book with various wug images, but while that book (and its images) are copyrighted, the original wug image was not registered and has therefore passed into the public domain.

Anyways, all the IP stuff I just mentioned was not known to many people back in the halcyon days of March when popular (and imo very good) linguistics podcast Lingthusiasm contacted JBG about licensing the wug design for merch. (FWIW, I’m now summarizing this post, so check that for more details.) Her lawyers responded with takedown notices for... educational posts and memes about wugs on their website. This is where the OTW got involved. Lingthusiasm was able to hire one of their lawyers, who found out that wugs are, in fact, not actually copyrighted! They rescinded the licensing offer, but offered to interview JBG on the podcast and to use all the proceeds of the wug merch to fund a grant for others to do a linguistics outreach project. In response, JBG’s lawyers sent a takedown notice for a podcast episode of theirs about wugs, which is just... Look, it’s an educational podcast episode about published academic research. Even if wugs were copyrighted, this would be so blatantly fair use it’s almost funny.

Anyways, it’s all kind of a clusterfuck from there--JBG’s lawyers have been sending out takedown notices to a ton of other people, some of whom were doing things like selling (totally legal) wug merch, some as outrageous as sending a takedown notice for a picture of someone’s wug tattoo.

My real point is that, the way IP law is set up (at least in the US), people with more money and power can be extremely overzealous about enforcing IP--even when they’re completely legally in the wrong. Legal defense of derivative works also encompasses a lot more than the fanart and fanfiction we argue about on here--in this case, it extended to educational podcast episodes. This story is still ongoing and doesn’t seem likely to have a happy ending, but without the help of the OTW, we wouldn’t now know what we do about the legal status of wugs, something that’s helped people push back against spurious takedown notices.

[marnanel]

Dear Mx. Marnanel Thurman:

The within notice is sent to pursuant to the United States Trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. §§1114, 1116-1118, 1125.

(a) The undersigned, whose signature appears below, is authorized to act on behalf of Jean Berko Gleason, the “Copyright Owner.” And the “Trademark Owner.”

(b) The Copyright Owner is the author, producer, and owner of the copyright in and to “The Wug Test” (incorporating drawings of the bird-like character known as the “Wug.” The Trademark Owner owns the registration for the phrase “This is a Wug” together with the image of the Wug (collectively, the “Registered Materials”).

(c) The Registered Materials are subject to a Copyright Certificate, Registration Number VA 1-373-722 and to a Trademark Certificate, Registration Number 4251794. (Copies of the Registrations are Attached).

(d) The Registered Materials are the subject of the within notice.

(e) The Copyright Owner/Trademark Owner asserts that the material identified and described below (“Infringing Material”) infringes the Registered Materials:

Use and display of the term “wug” in your tumblr post in connection with https://marnanel.tumblr.com

The infringing item is offered at:

https://marnanel.tumblr.com/post/163696779836/this-is-a-man-who-knows-how-to-spow

(f) The Copyright Owner/Trademark Owner, the complaining party herein, may be contacted through her attorney as follows:

c/o Natasha Nese, Esq. Office of Attorney Seth H. Salinger 53 Langley Road Suite 270 Newton, MA 02459 (617) 244-7630 natashanese@gmail.com

(g) The Copyright Owner/Trademark Owner has determined that use of the Infringing Materials is not authorized by the Copyright Owner/Trademark, her agents, or the law.

(h) To the best of the knowledge, information, and belief of the undersigned, the information contained in this Notice is true and accurate, and has been verified by the Copyright Owner/Trademark Owner, as well as by the records of the United States Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Under the pains and penalties of perjury, the undersigned declares that she is the legal, authorized representative of the Copyright Owner/Trademark Owner. 

Pursuant to the foregoing, demand is hereby made that Maranel Thurman remove forthwith any and all postings of the Infringing Material from its Website(s) as identified above, as well as from the Websites of all of its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and any other person or corporation over whom its exercises control or with whom it has ventured jointly or otherwise partnered, regardless of whether the identities of such Websites are specifically enumerated in the within Notice.

/s/ Natasha Nese

[atonement2007]

wore my new “man who knows how to spow” shirt to class today and my professor said that she wants me to meet jean berko gleason...scream

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

Jean Berko Gleason (1958)

[lingthusiasm]

Lauren: So we have a picture on the website, you can see it as I’m presenting this picture to Gretchen. And I’m presenting her with a thing she has never seen before and I say, “Gretchen, this is called a wug.” Gretchen: Okay. Lauren: It’s a cute, little, blue, boopy, bird-like thing. And I have this one wug here. Gretchen: We also have to pretend that I’m about three years old, just for perspective. Lauren: Yes, okay. And then if I present you with an illustration that has two of these little blue things, we have two…? Gretchen: Wugs? Lauren: You are as capable as a three-year-old, congratulations. Gretchen: Ahh, yay! Whoo! Lauren: You have passed what is known as the Wug Test. Gretchen: So, the Wug Test was a test that was created in, I think it was 1958, by Jean Berko Gleason, who was actually an undergrad at the time? Lauren: So amazing. Gretchen: Which kind of makes me feel inadequate about my entire life, my life choices. Lauren: Yeah. Gretchen: So she was an undergrad in linguistics and psychology or something, and she created this Wug Test, and she created these drawings of these novel creatures that kids had never encountered before, and she elicited from the kids the plural forms of these words they’d never seen before. And the point of this is to point out, well, if I memorised – I learned the word “cat” from my parents, I could also learn the word “cats” from my parents. We don’t know that I haven’t just memorised “cat” and “cats” and “dog” and “dogs” and so on. Lauren: Like an overactive word vacuum!

Excerpt from Episode 16 of Lingthusiasm: Learning parts of words - Morphemes and the wug test

Listen to the episode, read the full transcript, or check out more links about morphology and child language acquisition. 

[nicolekidmanwigfactory]

JBG getting horny on main for our former President