Wat doen Franstaligen als ze de verleden tijd moeten vormen van een onbestaand werkwoord in het Nederlands?
Neerlandistiek,
Afbeelding van Alison via Pixabay Sommige Nederlandse werkwoorden vormen hun verleden tijd door –te of –de toe te voegen…
Afbeelding van Alison via Pixabay Sommige Nederlandse werkwoorden vormen hun verleden tijd door –te of –de toe te voegen…
In my (2011) paper on the indeterminacy of word segmentation, I despaired of the task of distinguishing between “words” and “affi…
A new paper by Bentz et al. is available for preview here. It is about a correlation between the lexical diversity of languages…
Last month saw the publication of a paper by James and I (our first paper!) on the so-called ‘nomothetic’ approach to links…
Last month saw the publication of a paper by James and I (our first paper!) on the so-called ‘nomothetic’ approach to links…
After all of this talk of spurious cross-cultural correlations it might be time to direct the discussion back to ways to…
The language of evolution (Darwin, 1859) This post is a guest contribution by James Winters, the proprietor of Replicated Typo…
In my last post on the vanishing phonemes debate I briefly mentioned Atkinson’s two major theoretical points: (i) that there is…
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Right, I already referred to Atkinson’s paper in a…
Children are better than adults at learning…
It’s long since been established that demography…
Children learn language from exposure to speakers in their social network. This learning influences the input that will be…
I went onto e-bay this weekend and, instead of the gadget I…
Last week saw the publication of Lupyan
For a brief change of topic, let's take a look at language evolution! I wrote up the following novel review paper…
This is a quick note to point readers in the direction of several posts that have appeared online in recent days, on the…