User:John Stephenson/Contributions

John Stephenson


 * My recent Citizendium edits - look here to see what I've been working on (or just see if I know what I'm talking about). I am mostly responsible for the original information on many of the Linguistics Workgroup pages, and have also been trying to get linguists and departments to link to Linguistics.
 * My userplan.


 * Articles I've created:

Linguistics
 * Syllable
 * Language acquisition
 * Semantics (linguistics)
 * English language
 * British English
 * American English
 * Canadian English
 * Varieties of English
 * Dialect
 * Language planning
 * Multilingualism
 * Lingua franca
 * Comprehension approach
 * British Association for Applied Linguistics
 * LESLLA
 * Sue Savage-Rumbaugh sourced from Wikipedia, but much originally mine
 * Contact language
 * Historical linguistics
 * Comparative linguistics
 * Writing system
 * Orthography
 * Romansh language
 * Grammar
 * Sign language
 * Mandarin language
 * Welsh language
 * Jamaican creole
 * Noun class
 * Romance languages
 * Written language
 * Claude Lévi-Strauss
 * Linguistics template


 * New material:


 * Creolistics
 * Martha Young-Scholten
 * Fossilization (language acquisition)
 * Cranberry word
 * Languages of the United States of America
 * language acquisition template

Politics:


 * Government of the United Kingdom
 * Speaker of the House of Commons
 * Member of Parliament (UK)
 * Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
 * Members' Lobby
 * Tony Blair
 * Gordon Brown
 * Alistair Darling
 * David Miliband
 * Leader of the Opposition (UK)
 * Labour Party (UK)
 * David Cameron
 * William Hague
 * Capital
 * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
 * Sarah Palin
 * Politics of Pakistan


 * New material:


 * Pseudostate
 * Association of Electoral Administrators
 * Republic of China (1912-1949)

Imported from Wikipedia:


 * Japanese English renamed from the Wikipedia original
 * England
 * Scarborough, North Yorkshire
 * York
 * Naples
 * Craig Charles
 * Norman Lovett
 * Danny John-Jules
 * Red dwarf (star)
 * Culture of Japan
 * Stephen Krashen
 * Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
 * Cargo cult
 * Reading
 * Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Douglas Adams
 * Doctor Who: new and 'classic' split into two articles

Other articles:


 * Culture:


 * Japan:


 * Kanji
 * Himeji Castle
 * Koshi-byo (Nagasaki)
 * Koshi-byo
 * Whaling
 * Whale meat
 * Sushi
 * Nagasaki
 * Ju-on
 * Arudou Debito
 * Japan template


 * I have also started articles on Japan's islands, regions and prefectures, e.g. Honshu, Kansai and Mie. There are some maps I've uploaded.


 * UK:


 * Scarborough Castle
 * Grand Hotel (Scarborough)
 * Bombardment of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool
 * Yorkshire
 * Bonfire Night
 * Chips (food)
 * Cardiff
 * Wales
 * Glasgow
 * UK template


 * Places:


 * Africa
 * Germany
 * Taiwan
 * Paris
 * Boston


 * Science:


 * Earth
 * Mountain
 * Enceladus
 * Pluto
 * Penguin
 * Giant Panda
 * Chris Higgins
 * Richard Dawkins


 * New material:


 * Volcanically active worlds
 * Reaction of penguins to aircraft
 * Penguins in the northern hemisphere


 * Other:


 * Red Dwarf (science fiction series)
 * Blade Runner
 * Penguins in popular culture
 * Degree (academic)
 * William Hartnell
 * Patrick Troughton
 * Jon Pertwee
 * Tom Baker
 * Peter Davison
 * Colin Baker
 * Sylvester McCoy
 * Paul McGann
 * Christopher Eccleston
 * David Tennant
 * Castle
 * Lonely Planet
 * Ceuta and Melilla
 * Michael Hayes
 * Facebook
 * Farming with raw sewage
 * Dr. No (film)


 * Articles which I intend to make a significant contribution to include Linguistics, Language, Second language acquisition, Monitor Theory, the Critical Period Hypothesis, Applied linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, Elizabeth II,House of Commons, Japan, Japanese language, Creole language and Singapore English. I rewrote the German language page, but don't intend to go back to it much. I also restarted the abortion article, and wrote most of the early versions of spoken language. As for Japanese popular culture, I started that using bits written by other people and myself elsewhere.