Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...
Daniel Everett flew into the Brazilian jungle in December, 1977, a California linguist keen to study a language already suspected to be among the oddest in the world. Pirahã, found along a major ...
Daniel Everett flew into the Brazilian jungle in December, 1977, a California linguist keen to study a language already suspected to be among the oddest in the world. Pirahã, found along a major ...
In linux man pages, e.g. man ls, it says -R --recursive. I can see how ls can be recursive, by recursive I mean the proper programming concept. ls could say, "A: list all files in the directory then ...
Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...