Category Archives: Language Education
How do native Polish speakers identify and classify the British English monophthongs?
Introduction There exists a significant amount of research pertaining to second-language (L2) learner’s vowel perception and the influences of their native (L1) language (Flege, 2002; Flege, Munro, & MacKay, 1995; Munro, Flege, & MacKay, 1996 cited in Bundgaard-Nielsen et al. … Continue reading
How to Become an Excellent Teacher
There is something incredibly satisfying about working with a true professional in any line of work. When you have a professional on the job in any area of specialization watching that person in action is like watching a work of … Continue reading
Phonology: Allomorphs and the underlying representation
Phonology: Allomorphs and the underlying representation Question An apostrophe s (’s) is typically used to express possessive inflection (also known as genitive case) in writing. The data below shows that, in spoken language, this morpheme can be realised with many … Continue reading
RSA Animate – Language as a Window into Human Nature
Steven Pinker RSA In this new RSAnimate Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Taken from the RSA’s free public events programme www.thersa.org/events.
Wittgenstein on Language
Partially Examined Life On Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, Part I, sections 1-33 and 191-360 (written around 1946). What is linguistic meaning? Wittgenstein argues that it’s not some mysterious entity in the mind, but that it is a public matter: you … Continue reading
Bilingual children switch tasks faster than speakers of a single language
Robert Bock EurekAlert Bilinguals slower to build vocabulary but better at multitasking. Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a … Continue reading