Robbins Burling
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American anthropologist and linguist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robbins Burling was an American professor of anthropology and sociolinguistics. Early life and career Burling was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Dr. F. Temple and Katherine White Burling, and was the eldest of three siblings. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1950 and his Ph.D in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1958. His teaching career began as a teaching fellow in Anthropology at Harvard University in the fall of 1953, the spring of 1954 and the spring of 1957.
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Published Works
- Ethnic groups of mainland Southeast Asia (1964) (197)
- Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (184)
- Cognition and Componential Analysis: God's Truth or Hocus‐Pocus?1 (1964) (170)
- Language Development of a Garo and English Speaking Child (1959) (136)
- Spectra and cospectra of turbulence over water (1970) (114)
- English In Black And White (1973) (106)
- Maximization Theories and the Study of Economic Anthropology1 (1962) (104)
- The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved (2005) (91)
- The Tibeto-Burman Languages of Northeastern India (2002) (87)
- Direct Measurements of Stress and Spectra of Turbulence in the Boundary Layer Over the Sea (1967) (78)
- The Metrics of Children's Verse: A Cross‐Linguistic Study1 (1966) (73)
- Spectra of Velocity and Temperature Fluctuations in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over the Sea (1966) (68)
- Turbulence Spectra in the Wind Over Waves (1963) (66)
- Some statistical properties of small scale turbulence in an atmospheric boundary layer (1970) (59)
- The spectrum of waves at short fetches (1959) (54)
- Man's many Voices: Language in its Cultural Context. (1972) (47)
- Remote Acoustic Detection of a Turbidity Current Surge (1982) (47)
- The passage of power : studies in political succession (1974) (45)
- The Sal Languages (1983) (42)
- An investigation of high-wavenumber temperature and velocity spectra in air (1972) (41)
- The selective advantage of complex language (1986) (40)
- On Sound Scattering and Attenuation in Suspensions, with Marine Applications (1982) (39)
- Garo Social Organization. (Book Reviews: Rengsanggri. Family and kinship in a Garo village) (1964) (38)
- Hill Farms and Padi Fields: Life in Mainland Southeast Asia. (1966) (38)
- Proto Lolo-Burmese (1968) (38)
- Man's Many Voices (1970) (32)
- Submarine Channels In Rupert Inlet, British Columbia: I. Morphology☆ (1983) (24)
- Comparison of acoustic instruments in an atmospheric turbulent flow over water (1971) (23)
- The strong women of Modhupur (1997) (23)
- A Garo grammar (1963) (21)
- Comparative phonology of the Boro-Garo languages (2006) (21)
- SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS ON ADULT LANGUAGE LEARNING (1981) (20)
- Learning A Field Language (1984) (20)
- American Kinship Terms Once More (1970) (17)
- Glottogenesis and Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens: The Evidence for and Implications of a Late Origin of Vocal Language [and Comments and Replies] (1993) (17)
- A section of 14C activities of sea water between 9°s and 66°s in the South-West Pacific Ocean (1959) (17)
- The Language Of The Modhupur Mandi, Garo (2004) (17)
- SOME OUTLANDISH PROPOSALS FOR THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES (1968) (16)
- A numerical model of stratified circulation in Indian Arm, British Columbia (1987) (15)
- The Addition of Final Stops in the History of Maru (Tibeto-Burman) (1966) (15)
- The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Comprehension, Production and Conventionalisation in the Origins of Language (2000) (14)
- AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN READING FRENCH (1978) (13)
- Linguistics and Ethnographic Description1 (1969) (13)
- 201. A Structural Restatement of Njamal Kinship Terminology (1962) (11)
- Garo Kinship Terms And The Analysis Of Meaning (1963) (11)
- Submarine channels in rupert inlet, British Columbia: II. Sediments and sedimentary structures (1983) (11)
- Language, Ethnicity and Migration in North-Eastern India (2007) (11)
- What Should We Do about It (1974) (11)
- Language in Education: The Problem in Commonwealth Africa and the Indo-Pakistan Sub-continent. By Julian Dakin, Brian Tiffen, and H. G. Widdowson, London: Oxford University Press, 1968, xi, 177 pp. Glossary, $1.95. (1969) (10)
- A proposal for computer-assisted instruction in vocabulary (1983) (9)
- On the Evolution of Language (1993) (9)
- A Gill twin propeller-vane anemometer for flux measurements during moderate and strong winds (1979) (8)
- PHOM PHONOLOGY AND WORD LIST (1998) (7)
- A Gill Twin Propeller-Vane Anemometer for Flux Measurements During Moderate and Strong Winds (1979) (7)
- Burling's Rejoinder (1964) (7)
- TALKING TO TEACHERS ABOUT SOCIAL DIALECTS (1971) (6)
- Patterns of Language: Structure, Variation, Change (1992) (6)
- Naga pidgin : a sociolinguistic study of inter-lingual communication pattern in Nagaland (1977) (6)
- A test of isotropy and Taylor's hypothesis in the atmospheric boundary layer (1981) (6)
- Proto-Karen: A Reanalysis.@@@Lahu and Proto-Lolo-Burmese. (1970) (5)
- I. The Place and the People (1963) (5)
- The language of the Modhupur Mandi, Garo : Vol. I : Grammar (2003) (5)
- North East Indian Linguistics: The ‘sixth’ vowel in the Boro-Garo languages (2013) (4)
- Personal Names in a Mande (Garo) Village (2000) (4)
- GARO AVUNCULAR AUTHORITY AND MATRILATERAL CROSS-COUSIN MARRIAGE1 (1958) (4)
- The language of the Modhupur Mandi, Garo : Vol. III : Glossary (2003) (3)
- The ecological significance of some early sea temperature records from Otago Harbour (1960) (3)
- Where did the Question ‘Where did My Tribe Come From?’ Come From? (2012) (3)
- Words came first: adaptations for word‐learning (2011) (3)
- SURFACE WAVES ON ENCLOSED BODIES OF WATER (2011) (3)
- Garo Marriage to the Wife's Daughter: Further Support for the Westermarck Hypothesis for the Origin of the Incest Taboo (1985) (3)
- Burmese Kinship Terminology1 (2009) (2)
- An Anthropological Glimpse of the English Teacher's World. (1977) (2)
- The Role of Meaning in the Study of Language: A Defense of Reference (1966) (2)
- Prosody does not equal language (2004) (2)
- Man's many voice : language in its cultural contex / Robbins Burling (1970) (2)
- The Crucial Mutation for Language (1992) (1)
- North East Indian Linguistics: Boro Tones (2009) (1)
- The phase velocity of wave-components under the action of wind (1959) (1)
- Linguistics: Political Language and Oratory in Traditional Society. Maurice Block (1977) (1)
- Poor Spellers of the World, Unite!. (1976) (1)
- Kinship in Southeastern Asia (STEDT Monograph 6) [Book Review] (2011) (1)
- Book Review: Unruly Hills: Nature and Nation in India’s Northeast (2011) (1)
- An Anthropologist Among the English Teachers. (1974) (1)
- LINGUISTICS: Syntactic Structures. Noam Chomsky (1959) (1)
- The simian tongue: The long debate about animal language (review) (2010) (1)
- Ray Jackendoff, Foundations of language: Brain, meaning, grammar, evolution. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 477. Hb $40.00. (2003) (1)
- Understanding a Mandi Story (1986) (1)
- Matrilineal Kinship. David M. Schneider and Kathleen Gough, Eds. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1961. xx + 761 pp. $11.75 (1962) (1)
- LINGUISTICS: Language and Mind. Noam Chomsky (1970) (1)
- Some remarks on the relation between social structure and ethnographic description (1970) (1)
- List of Maps and Diagrams (1963) (0)
- Papers on Tibeto-Burman historical and comparative linguistics from the second annual meeting on Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction (1971) (0)
- An Anthropological Glimpse at the World of the English Teacher. (1977) (0)
- Positively Black. ROGER D. ABRAHAMS (1971) (0)
- The language of the Modhupur Mandi, Garo : Vol. II : The Lexicon (2003) (0)
- IMPLICATIONS FOR LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE: GENERAL DISCUSSION (1981) (0)
- Review of “From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language” by Michael C. Corballis (2001) (0)
- : The Akas . Raghuvir Sinha. ; The Gallongs . L. R. N. Srivastava. (1964) (0)
- Chapter 5. Tribesmen and Lowlanders of Assam (1967) (0)
- XII. New Ideas (1963) (0)
- THE CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF SEMANTIC STRUCTURE. FINAL REPORT. (1964) (0)
- VI. The A’kim Bond (1963) (0)
- A Problem in the Phonology of Lahu (1966) (0)
- North East Indian Linguistics: Change with Continuity in the Boro-Garo Languages (2008) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Social Research in East Pakistan. Pierre Bessaignet (1962) (0)
- North East Indian Linguistics: Three Meanings of “Language” and “Dialect” in North East India (2011) (0)
- Machine Aided Instruction in Aural Comprehension of Indonesian. Final Report. (1980) (0)
- North East Indian Linguistics: The Stammbaum of Boro-Garo (2012) (0)
- The Author's Captive Market (1974) (0)
- Conversations in a Negro American Dialect. BENQT LOMAN, ed (1968) (0)
- Bibliography of Garo Ethnography (1963) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1961. Bernard J. Siegel (Ed.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962. 338 pp., chapter bibliographies, index. $7.50 (1962) (0)
- Seino Van Breugel: A Grammar of Atong. (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages.) xxxvi, 660 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2014. €231. ISBN 978 90 04 25892 1. (2016) (0)
- XI. The Market (1963) (0)
- GEORGE PETER MURDOCK (Ed.). Social Structure in Southeast Asia. (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 29.) Pp. ix, 182. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1960. $5.00 (1961) (0)
- Robbins Burling Replies (1978) (0)
- VII. Extended Kinship (1963) (0)
- The A pa Tanis and their Neighbours: A Primitive Civilization of the Eastern Himalayas (1963) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Golden Road to Modernity: Village Life in Contemporary Burma. Manning Nash (1966) (0)
- VIII. Transactions Between Households (1963) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Culture in History: Essays in Honor of Paul Radin. Stanley Diamond (Ed.) Foreword by Abram Leon Sachar (1961) (0)
- North East Indian Linguistics: Foreword (2009) (0)
- Return to Rengsanggri (2014) (0)
- Mother Right: Matrilineal Kinship . David M. Schneider and Kathleen Gough, Eds. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1961. xx + 761 pp. $11.75. (1962) (0)
- IX. The Village (1963) (0)
- OTHER: The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community. William H. McNeill (1965) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Secret Lands Where Women Reign. Gabrielle Bertrand (1959) (0)
- II. Nature and the Gods (1963) (0)
- Maximization Theories and the Study (2016) (0)
- IV. Becoming a Garo (1963) (0)
- Einar Flydal, Oljespråk: Språklige lovbrudd og lovlige språkbrudd på sokkelen (Oil language: Linguistic law breaking and lawful language breaking on the continental shelf). Stavanger and Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1983. Pp. 165. (1985) (0)
- GRADUATE RECORD EXAM CONSIDERED BY BOARD (1970) (0)
- Linguistic Anthropology: Blessings of Babel: Bilingualism and Language Planning. Einar Haugen. (1988) (0)
- X. The Settlement of Disputes (1963) (0)
- LINGUISTICS: Current Trends in Linguistics. Volume III: Theoretical Foundations. Thomas A. Sebeok and others, eds (1967) (0)
- LINGUISTICS: Language in Culture and Society: A Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology. DELL HYMES (1965) (0)
- Burling's Reply to Kehoe (1970) (0)
- V. The Household (1963) (0)
- III. First Marriage (1963) (0)
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