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In Thinking With Your Hands, Susan Goldin-Meadow meets the challenge of summarising a lifetime of research for a non-specialist audience. Since the early 1970s Goldin-Meadow has been researching ...

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lingthusiasm : > LINGTHUSIASM EPISODE 91: SCOPING OUT THE SCOPE OF SCOPE >  > When you order a kebab and they ask you if you want everything on > it, you might say ...

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lingthusiasm : > LINGTHUSIASM EPISODE 90: WHAT VISUALIZING OUR VOWELS TELLS US ABOUT > WHO WE ARE >  > On Lingthusiasm, we’ve sometimes compared the human vocal tract ...

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Unicode 15.1 will be rolling out to phones and computers across this year. It will include lots of new CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) ideographs, some new line-breaking rules for syllabic scripts,...

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lingthusiasm : > Which of Daniel Jones’s 10 secondary Cardinal Vowels is your > favourite?  >  > /y/ high front rounded vowel, as in German “über” or French > �...

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This handbook chapter is a behind-the-scenes of how the Crash Course Linguistics video series came together. I’m really proud that this article includes contributions from the linguistics writi...

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This is a story I used to tell while teaching fieldworkers and other researchers about how to manage their data. It’s a moderately improbable story, but it happened to me and others have benefi...

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lingthusiasm : > LINGTHUSIASM EPISODE 89: CONNECTING WITH ORAL CULTURE >  > For tens of thousands of years, humans have transmitted long and > intricate stories to each ...

https://www.superlinguo.com/post/742699900605792256

In 2024 I have returned to my role as an editor of Himalayan Linguistics, and have joined the editorial boards of two other journals; Linguistics Vanguard and the Australian Journal of Linguistic...

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lingthusiasm : > It’s easy to find claims that certain languages are old or even > the oldest, but which one is actually true? Fortunately, there’s > an easy (thoug...

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I spent 2023 on leave to hang out with a new tiny human. I still found time for some linguistics, including regular Lingthusiasm episodes and even some intermittent blogging. I also got to reuse ...

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2024 LINGCOMM GRANTS – SMALL GRANTS FOR COMMUNICATING LINGUISTICS TO WIDER AUDIENCES The LingComm grants are running again in 2024! We have (at least) two $500 (USD) grants in 2024. All of t...

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At Christmas time, it always felt like every surface of my grandparents house was covered in Christmas cards. Cards from family and friends and from all corners of the world. My grandfather enjoy...

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I don’t like the idea of Santa’s list of ‘naughty’ and 'nice’ children, but parents have been using it as a way to provoke their children into preferred behaviour, and this categorisati...

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lingthusiasm : > Language lets us talk about things that aren’t, strictly speaking, > entirely real. Sometimes that’s an imaginative object (is a toy > sword a real ...

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superlinguo : > Christmas is a time of year that invokes a yearning for tradition. > It’s now a tradition that I rip open the words of the season, like > a child ...

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This time last year came the sudden, unexpected news of the death of Barbara F. Kelly’s. Barb Kelly was one of my undergraduate lecturers, my principle PhD supervisor, and eventually a collabor...

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lingthusiasm : > EPISODE 86: REVIVAL, REGGAETON, AND REJECTING UNICORNS - BASQUE > INTERVIEW WITH ITXASO RODRÍGUEZ-ORDÓÑEZ >  > Basque is a language of Europe which is�...

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lingthusiasm : > 2023 LISTENER SURVEY: INCLUDING NEW EXPERIMENT QUESTIONS!  >  > We’re running our second official listener/reader survey!  >  > This is your chance to�...

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In this new article I get to bring together three of my favourite things: gesture, science fiction and working with the best collaborators. I teamed up with genre author and creative writing expe...

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