Language Log: Lisa's adventures in linguistics
In the current Penny & Aggie strip, Lisa continues to enjoy her first linguistics lecture. She's entranced by the International Phonetic Alphabet, which hits her like the green-screen "digital...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Eskimos again, this time seeing the invisible
"As Eskimos do with snow," wrote Emma Brockes yesterday in a New York Times review of Alan Hollinghurst's new novel (and the hairs rose on the back of my neck as I saw those words), "the English see...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Vocal fry: "creeping in" or "still here"?
According to Marissa Fessenden, "'Vocal Fry' Creeping into U.S. Speech", Science Now 12/9/2011: A curious vocal pattern has crept into the speech of young adult women who speak American English: low,...
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