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 user subpages.
• Working on contacting the roughly 450 inactive Editors: so far sent an update to everyone absent in the following workgroups: Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Health Sciences, Computers, Psychology, Education. These workgroups tend to overlap, in that many people are editors in more than one of them. Astronomy led to Physics, which led to Chemistry, which led to Engineering, which led to Computers. Physics leads a bit to Earth Sciences and quite a bit to Mathematics too. Chemistry also goes to Biology, but not as much as it does to Engineering. Biology goes primarily to Health Sciences. Health Sciences goes back to Biology but also to Psychology and somewhat to Sports (otherwise, a mixed bag). Computers leads to Business, Education, Media, Library Sciences and Games (i.e. another mixed bag). Psychology leads back to Health Sciences but on to Education and Music. Education leads back to Computers and Psychology and on to Philosophy, Religion and Literature.

Articles I've created

Linguistics

Syllable Mora Word (language) Vowel Consonant Voicing (linguistics) The Sound Pattern of English Language acquisition Second language acquisition Language attrition Semantics (linguistics) Dialect Language planning Multilingualism Official language Lingua franca Critical period Critical period hypothesis Monitor theory Comprehension approach British Association for Applied Linguistics LESLLA Sue Savage-Rumbaugh sourced from Wikipedia, but much originally mine Contact language Creole (language) Historical linguistics Comparative linguistics Writing system Orthography Romansh language Grammar Sign language Ainu language Japanese language Mandarin language Chinese characters Welsh language Jamaican Creole Hawaiian Creole Pidgin Hawaiian Noun class Romance languages Written language Claude Lévi-Strauss Nativism (psychology) Esperanto Linguistics template

English English language British English American English Canadian English Australian English Varieties of English New material Typological universal Creolistics Martha Young-Scholten Fossilization (language acquisition) Cranberry word Languages of the United States of America language acquisition template

Politics

Parliament of the United Kingdom Monarchy of the United Kingdom Queen Anne Privy Council (UK)‎ Prince William, Duke of Cambridge Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Prince Harry General election (UK) Next United Kingdom general election 2010 United Kingdom general election 2005 United Kingdom general election 2001 United Kingdom general election 1997 United Kingdom general election House of Commons state of the parties template House of Commons state of the parties (small) template House of Commons state of the parties (table rows) template Government of the United Kingdom Speaker of the House of Commons (UK) Member of Parliament (UK) Foreign and Commonwealth Office Foreign Secretary Members' Lobby George Osborne Ed Miliband David Miliband Tony Blair Gordon Brown Alistair Darling

Official Opposition (UK) Leader of the Opposition (UK) Labour Party (UK) Devolution Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon Plaid Cymru Social Democratic and Labour Party Independent Community and Health Concern Respect Party Independent (politician) David Cameron William Hague City (urban settlement) Capital (city) Nelson Mandela Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sarah Palin Gabrielle Giffords‎ Christine O'Donnell Politics of Pakistan Gaza Strip 2008-2009 Gaza conflict Obama administration Politics of Japan Akihito Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Democratic Party of Japan‎ Naoto Kan Yukio Hatoyama Kunio Hatoyama Passport Japanese residents of colonial descent Foreign national residency management system (Japan) Visa (document) Fingerprinting Annexation Islamic State (organization) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation New material Pseudostate Association of Electoral Administrators Republic of China (1912-1949)

Culture

Japan Kanji Katakana Ainu people Shingo Castles in Japan Himeji Castle Koshi-byo (Nagasaki) Koshi-byo Whaling Whale meat Sushi Hiroshima (city) Nagasaki (city) Ju-on Arudou Debito C.W. Nicol 2009 Japanese cash handout Japanese dolls Bullet train (Japan) 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 Richard III (monarch) Scarborough Castle Great Siege of Scarborough Castle Grand Hotel (Scarborough) Bombardment of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool English Civil War Yorkshire Bonfire Night Chips (food) Cardiff Wales Glasgow Liverpool Durham University Police box The Championships, Wimbledon UK template Places Africa Burkina Faso Namibia Côte d'Ivoire Caribbean Ecuador Falkland Islands Honduras Hispaniola Haiti Jamaica Micronesia North Sea Baltic Sea Germany Taiwan Taipei‎‎ Tibet Bangkok Paris Boston San Francisco Bay Area British Overseas Territories Crown Dependencies Czechoslovakia Other Heart (symbol) History of Haiti Proto-Indo-Europeans Politeness Pope Francis Pulitzer Prize

Science

Earth Mountain Asteroid Enceladus Pluto (dwarf planet) Arcturus (star) Penguin Bear (animal) Giant Panda Gorilla Reptile Crocodile Spinal cord Chris Higgins Richard Dawkins Robert Pound Technology Tooth Electronics Rainforest Simon Singh Yuri Gagarin Philae (comet lander)

New material Volcanically active worlds Reaction of penguins to aircraft Penguins in the northern hemisphere Farming with raw sewage

Other

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• The League of Gentlemen (television series)
• The League of Gentlemen (writers and performers)
• Red Dwarf (science fiction series)
• Norman Lovett
• Blackadder
• Rik Mayall‎
• The X-Files
• Blade Runner
• Macbeth
• Penguins in popular culture
• Academic degree
• Doctor Who
  • Doctor Who/1960s-1990s
  • Doctor Who/2000s-
• Dalek
• K-9 (robot dog)
• William Hartnell
• Patrick Troughton
• Jon Pertwee
• Tom Baker
• Peter Davison
• Colin Baker
• Sylvester McCoy
• Paul McGann

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• Christopher Eccleston
• David Tennant
• Matt Smith
• Peter Capaldi‎‎
• Elisabeth Sladen
• Cheers
• Frasier
• Castle
• Lonely Planet
• Ceuta and Melilla
• Michael Hayes
• Steve Jobs
• Facebook
• Google+
• Horror
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Dr. No (film)
• Michelle Yeoh
• Chow Yun-Fat
• Gong Li
• Danny Boyle
• Trainspotting (film)
• Sunshine (2007 film)
• Desert Island Discs
• Mensa International
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Asian Games
• 2012 Summer Olympics
• 2016 Summer Olympics
• 2020 Summer Olympics
• Chocolate
• Train (transport)
• Truth in Numbers
• Montreal Biodome
• Commonwealth Games
• Animals in espionage
• RMS Titanic
• Bank (finance)
• Banknote
• Transportation
• Airport
• Bill Gates
• IBM

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Imported from Wikipedia

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• Japanese English renamed from the Wikipedia original
• England
• Scarborough, North Yorkshire
• York
• Naples
• Craig Charles
• Danny John-Jules
• Red dwarf (star)

Culture of Japan Stephen Krashen Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Cargo cult Colonialism Reading (process) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Douglas Adams Terry Nation

Articles started by others

Articles which I intend to make a significant contribution to include linguistics, language, monitor theory, applied linguistics, phonology, phonetics, sound (acoustics), vocal cords, Elizabeth II, House of Commons, Japan, Japanese 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. I expanded dinosaurs. As for Japanese popular culture, I started that using bits written by other people and myself elsewhere.