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Keith Baird, Linguist Who Fought the Use of 'Negro,' Dies at 94 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/nyregion/keith-baird-dead-linguist.html

Facebook builds natural language processing into Messenger https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/27/facebook-builds-natural-language-processing-into-messenger/

U North Texas Lands Funding to Launch Human Intelligence and Language Technologies Lab https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/07/27/u-north-texas-lands-funding-to-launch-human-intelligence-and-language-technologies-lab.aspx

New Tlingit teachers weave language education into Kake's Culture Camp http://www.ktoo.org/2017/07/26/new-tlingit-teachers-weave-language-education-kakes-culture-camp/

The universal language of emotion: Humans can recognise the vocalizations of all land animals, study finds http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4732588/Humans-mammals-share-universal-language-arousal.html

RESURRECTING A LOST ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE THROUGH SONG https://daily.jstor.org/resurrecting-a-lost-aboriginal-language-through-song/

'Manhunt: Unabomber' Dramatizes Ted Kaczynski Capture Via Forensic Linguistics – TCA http://deadline.com/2017/07/unabomber-manhunt-ted-kaczynski-discovery-channel-tca-1202136325/

Say what? Tompkins on the crossroads of accents http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2017/07/26/say-what-tompkins-crossroads-accents/508163001/

For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608249/for-computers-too-its-hard-to-learn-to-speak-chinese/

What Are The Planet's Real 'Talking' Chimps And Gorillas Saying?   http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/25/538580495/what-are-the-planet-s-real-talking-chimps-and-gorillas-saying

UTSA hosts world's largest gathering of historical linguists http://www.utsa.edu/today/2017/07/story/linguistics-conference.html

Physics of bubbles could explain language patterns https://phys.org/news/2017-07-physics-language-patterns.html

Can you bring a language back from the dead? https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/can-you-bring-a-language-back-from-the-dead-1.3159014?mode=amp

The mysterious origin of Europe's oldest language http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170719-the-mysterious-origins-of-europes-oldest-language

Legal deal pulls money to teach tribal kids native language   http://www.startribune.com/legal-deal-pulls-money-to-teach-tribal-kids-native-language/435898953/

Young linguists urged to take up research on grammars http://starofmysore.com/young-linguists-urged-take-research-grammars/

Five Steps to Tackling Big Data with Natural Language Processing https://insidebigdata.com/2017/07/10/five-steps-tackling-big-data-natural-language-processing/

Could the language barrier actually fall within the next 10 years? https://www.languagemagazine.com/2017/07/language-barrier-actually-fall-within-next-10-years/

We still have no idea why humans speak over 7,000 languages https://qz.com/1033354/we-still-have-no-idea-why-humans-speak-over-7000-languages/

A Century-Old Abraham Lincoln Mystery May Finally Have an Answer http://time.com/4855857/abraham-lincoln-john-hay-bixby-letter/