Pseudolinguistics

	Pseudolinguistics Pseudolinguistic may mean imitating some qualities of language an early stage in language acquisition ("babbling") * Glossolalia *a toy model in language modelling linguistic pseudo-scholarship Pseudo-scholarship (from pseudo- and scholarship) is a term used to describe work (e.g., publication, lecture) or a body of work that is presented as, but is not, the product of rigorous and objective study or research; the act of producing such w ... Pseudoscientific language comparison Phaistos Disc decipherment claims Sun Language Theory Lemurian Tamil Folk linguistics {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pseudo-scholarship Pseudo-scholarship (from pseudo- and scholarship) is a term used to describe work (e.g., publication, lecture) or a body of work that is presented as, but is not, the product of rigorous and objective study or research; the act of producing such work; or the pretended learning upon which it is based. Examples of pseudo-scholarship include: Pseudoarchaeology Pseudohistory * Pseudolaw * Pseudolinguistics * Pseudomathematics * Pseudophilosophy PseudoscienceJeremy Bernstein, ''A Comprehensible World: On Modern Science and Its Origins'', 2nd ed. (New York: Random House, 1967) p. 193 See also Chaos magic Conspiracy theory Counterknowledge * Crackpot index * Crank (person) * Fallacy Fringe science Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already Objection (argument), refuted. The chance of ideas rejected by editors and published outside the mainstream being correct is remote. Wh ... Fringe theory * Ignoratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pseudoscientific Language Comparison Pseudoscientific language comparison is a form of pseudo-scholarship that aims to establish historical associations between languages by naïve postulations of similarities between them. While comparative linguistics also studies how languages are historically related, linguistic comparisons are deemed pseudoscientific when they do not follow the established practices. Pseudoscientific language comparison is usually performed by people with little or no specialization in the field of comparative linguistics. It is a widespread type of linguistic pseudoscience. The most common method applied in pseudoscientific language comparisons is to search different languages for words that sound and mean alike. Such similarities often seem convincing to common folks, but linguistic scientists see this kind of comparison as unreliable for two primary reasons. First, the criterion of similarity is subjective and thus not subject to verification or falsification, which runs against scientific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Phaistos Disc Decipherment Claims Many people have claimed to have deciphered the Phaistos Disc. The claims may be categorized into linguistic decipherments, identifying the language of the inscription, and non-linguistic decipherments. A purely ideographical reading is ''semantic'' but not ''linguistic'' in the strict sense: While a ''semantic'' decipherment may reveal the intended meaning of the symbols in the inscription, it would not allow us to identify the underlying words or their language. A large part of the claims are clearly pseudoscience, pseudoscientific, if not bordering on the esoteric. Linguists are doubtful whether the inscription is sufficiently long to be unambiguously interpreted. It is possible that one of these decipherments is correct, and that, without further material in the same script, we will never know which. Mainstream consensus tends towards the assumption of a Syllabary, syllabic script, possibly mixed with ideogram, like the known scripts of the epoch (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Ana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]