FeedBurner, a service for managing RSS feeds, provided us with a nice example of ideophonic language on its corporate blog…
An intriguing article in Science two months ago suggests that advances in speech processing ‘may soon place speech and writing…
In pursuit of early written sources about Kawu I came across a useful summary of explorations in the Volta Basin…
With three mouth-related ideophones we’ve got a true proeverij this time. Welcome to dinner! You’re invited to try the first…
Zotero is getting better and better. In a while, version 1.5 will bring synchronization, online backup of your library, +1100…
28-11-2008Claude Lévi-Strauss’ 100th birthday German television channel Arte devotes much of today’s programme to Claude Lévi-Strauss to celebrate his 100th…
If one had to sum up their character in a short phrase one might say that they are poetry in…
While I’m busy analysing conversational data from the last two fieldtrips, my plan is treat you to a few fine…
Via Language Log, a nice tutorial titled Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics [PDF, 13,1 Mb] by Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn,…
Let me draw your attention to the newly added quote at the top right of this page: “…they are playthings,…
Great news for those who are into visual corpus linguistics but don’t work on SAE languages: since July, Wordle handles…
In a previous post I have outlined the history of the term ideophone. This post takes on three common misunderstandings…
The 51st installment of Four Stone Hearth is up at Clashing Culture, featuring an interesting mishmash of anthropological topics. For…
The steady influx of vocabularies of ‘exotic’ languages during the nineteenth century caused a veritable flowering of comparative philology in…
drizzle by +lyn (Flickr) Without wanting to detract from the supreme rendering of bíààà in the previous post, here is…
The card arrived in the mail today, so I can now call myself the lucky owner of this rendition of…
Reading about the two translations of the Confucian Ta Hio by Ezra Pound, the earlier one first published in 1928…
More from the missed-while-I-was-in-the-field dept.: back in August, artisan jewelry shop My Word! featured a beautiful pair of earrings decorated…
I missed it back in March, probably because I was in the field: a delightful post on ideophones in Somali…
Semantic cookies are sold in Akpafu-Mempeasem, central Volta Region, Ghana (among other places) Fieldwork sessions on lexical semantics have become…