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Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240223-scientists-in-antarctica-developed-their-own-accent-after-six-months-of-isolationthey were taking part in an unusual experiment, which involved tracking their own voices over time. This was done by making 10-minute recordings every few weeks. They would sit in front of a microphone and repeat the same 29 words as they appeared on a computer screen. Food. Coffee. Hid. Airflow. ... read full post
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The End of the Slavic Linguistic Unity (in French, but with English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4vQp7t1nRc7
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How likely are chance resemblances between languages?
https://www.zompist.com/chance.htm45
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Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.08491.pdf73
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Linguistic Coincidences
This is not bad
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Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/esperanto-the-artificial-language-that-aimed-to-unite-humanity/21
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Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/feb/20/sloshed-plastered-and-gazeboed-why-britons-have-546-words-for-drunkenness9
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A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/vasconic-inscription-on-a-bronze-hand-writing-and-rituality-in-the-iron-age-irulegi-settlement-in-the-ebro-valley/645A15DF3D725F83D62F3D1FB5DF83EC45
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The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00473-271
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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide
https://ruhua-langblr.tumblr.com/post/739086003139149824/duolingo-sucks-now-what-a-guide87
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The English words “wheel” and “rickshaw” are extraordinary cognates
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North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
https://aschmann.net/AmEng/11
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Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.add776613
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Rizz, the word of the year, explained
https://www.vox.com/culture/23989120/rizz-definition-oxford-word-of-the-year-colloquial14
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What Is Punctuation For? - JSTOR Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/what-is-punctuation-for/9
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The Linguistics Iceberg Explained
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=GFz6KqZurFY&listen=false19
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Why is /æ/ raising so unknown?
Hi, I'm a casual linguistics nerd (no degrees), speaking Philippine English with heavy American influence. ... read full post
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How forensic linguistics can solve crimes [8:59]
https://youtu.be/-EVXdhstw14?si=30tTIa9AlWKvs8z010
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[PDF] A compendium of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin languages (August Schleicher)
https://archive.org/details/compendiumofcomp01schluoft/mode/2upI'm sharing this mostly as a historical curiosity; Schleicher was genial, but the book is a century and half old, science marches on, so it isn't exactly good source material. Still an enjoyable read if you like Historical Linguistics, as it was one of the first successful attempts to reconstruct a language based on indirect output from its child languages.
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[Sci.News] Post-Neolithic Diet-Induced Dental Changes Led to Introduction of ‘F’ and ‘V’ Sounds
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/linguistics/diet-labiodentals-07001.htmlLink for the Science research article. The observation that societies without access to softer food kind of avoided labiodentals is old, from 1985, but the research is recent-ish (2019).
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How different languages laugh online
https://restofworld.org/2023/how-people-laugh-online/29
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Cracking the Code of Linear B
https://antigonejournal.com/2024/01/decipherment-linear-b/19
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Question: Terms for language anachronisms
What are the terms for language anachronisms? ... read full post
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