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LaTeX for linguists

Here are a couple links of useful pages for learning LaTeX as a linguist. If you know some basics (or even if you don’t), take a look for some tips on typesetting.

http://mally.stanford.edu/~sr/computing/latex.html

http://ug.bu.edu/blog/lingtech/collected-notes/linguistics-in-latex/

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/latex4ling/

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/advice/latex.html

SCULC 2011 — new site!

The new site for SCULC is up, complete with abstract announcement. Abstracts are due February 1, 2011, don’t miss it!

http://bruinling.org/sculc/

Does ling help you learn languages?

arabicMost people have a feeling for the answer of this question regardless of their background with linguistics, something of an intuition that linguistics doesn’t really help you learn languages any more than being a doctor helps you defend against illness.…

Ling 20 study group

BLing is organizing a study group for LING 20, taught by Hayes in Fall 2010. Each session will be facilitated by a Bruin Linguists board member. We will answer questions, help with homework, and generally do all we can to…