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October 25 2012

T

hree members of the
University of Michigan
Linguistics Department —
professors Sally Thomason
and Andries Coetzee and gradu-
ate student Stephen Tyndall
— spent the day at Hillel Day
School in Farmington Hills in late
September, where they were guests
of Jessica Stempek, eighth-grade
language arts teacher at Hillel. The
linguists attended three classes.
Stempek is dedicating a por-
tion of this semester of her class
to the theme "The Evolution of
Language." She is covering all
aspects of language, from gram-
mar to writing systems, from
the earliest societies (Egypt,
Mesopotamia and China) to the
present day. The idea for this
theme grew out of an inspiring
linguistics class that Stempek
Stephen Tyndall, a U-M graduate
took while earning her bach-
student, checks in with Joey Greenstein.
elor's degree at Michigan State
University.
great skill as ancient scribes.
The visit coincided with discus-
In addition to attending Stempek's
sion of the history of writing systems.
classes, the trio also had the opportu-
Tyndall and Thomason introduced
nity to share apples and honey with
each class by giving a short over-
the students and faculty as part of
view about the origin of writing and
Hillel's Rosh Hashanah celebrations.
showing how the letter "N' developed
Coetzee also sat in on a seventh-
through progressive abstraction from
grade Hebrew class. The class was
a picture of an ox's head. Students
taught exclusively in Hebrew, except
then had the opportunity to ask ques-
for the occasional English explanation
tions, which they did enthusiastically.
for Coetzee's sake. He has a master's
After doing a quick review of
degree in Biblical Hebrew, yet from
Hittite cuneiform writing, the visitors
this encounter, the seventh-graders
distributed clay and wooden styluses
clearly have a better command of
to the students. Each student then
the spoken Hebrew language than he
wrote his or her name in cuneiform
does. 7i
on a clay tablet. The students showed

