Language Log: Behekitninerpillar
Left-handed toons from 8/13/2010, "Jasper got a dog", starts like this: And ends like this: Luckily for all of us, language doesn't work that way, except to some extent in NPR word puzzles. [h/t to...
View ArticleLanguage Log: UM / UH in German
We've previously observed a surprisingly consistent pattern of age and gender effects on the relative frequency of filled pauses (or "hesitation sounds") with and without final nasals — what we...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Heart-mind
This is another one of those posts that I wanted to write long ago (actually almost a year ago), but it got lost in the shuffle until now, when I found it going through my old drafts. It was prompted...
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