Language & Linguistics

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2
Mar
2023

Cats and Us – A Curious Relationship

You do not necessarily have to follow online cats on social media to read the book, but if you do, you might have come across one or the other cat-inspired linguistic process before or have perhaps found...
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28
Feb
2023

Does brain development rely on verbal ...

It is commonly known that our brain abilities, including reasoning, memory, imagination, and attention, are shaped by the social world. We absorb ways of thinking, behaving, and learning through exposure...
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7
Feb
2023

The New Speaker Phenomenon

Today many European minority language communities are undergoing profound changes, in part as a result of globalisation, increased mobility and accelerating socio-economic fragmentation within heartland...
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1
Feb
2023

When Minoritized Languages Change Linguistic...

Q: Let’s start with the title of your book. Why use the term minoritized languages? A: It’s a question of emphasis: there is nothing intrinsically “minor” about the languages (or even...
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30
Jan
2023

Linguistics meets Philosophy

All scientific fields were born from philosophy. And most were born a long time ago. So long ago that conversations between the philosophic ‘parent’ and the scientific ‘child’...
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13
Jan
2023

Life as a Bilingual: Part 2

“Life as a Bilingual” – a highly successful blog and now a new Cambridge book Back in 2016, Cambridge Extra published an interview[1] of François Grosjean[2], a recognized expert...
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9
Jan
2023

Life as a Bilingual: Part 1

Who could have imagined this kind of success for a scientific blog on bilingualism?In 2016, François Grosjean was interviewed about his Psychology Today blog, “Life as a bilingual”, by Ewa...
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28
Nov
2022

An Introduction to Communicative Efficiency

For a long time, linguists have thought of language as a tool for thinking. Under this view, how we use language for communication is not particularly interesting because it does not tell us anything...
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