It is no news that people are animals, especially not this Darwin Year. But normally that something we say of…
Just a quick follow-up on my earlier post. Foroni & Semin (in press, Psychological Science) do what I hoped somebody…
A 2005 study suggests that Japanese ideophones of laughter activate striatal reward centers in the brain, but I think the…
The Winners and Finalists of the 2008 AAA Photo Contest are now available in a Flickr gallery. The photos are…
It’s here. Zotero 1.5 beta. The new version comes with built-in synchronization, exports to more than 1100 citation styles, and…
Science has just published a comment by me on Oard’s “Unlocking the potention of the spoken word” (Oard 2008). It…
Funeral dirges (sìnɔ in Siwu) are sung during the period of public mourning preceding a burial. The musical structures of these dirges, the performances, and their place in the larger context of the funeral have been described in some detail by Agawu (1988) and before him by the German missionary Friedrich Kruse (1911); however, the linguistic aspects of the genre have not received any attention so far. Dirges are rarely heard in Kawu nowadays, but there are signs of a renewed interest in the genre.
Colleen’s post about the Hand Drawn Map Contest reminded me of a neat map of Kawu I was given some…
It’s that time again! The 60th edition of Anthroblogging’s very own blog carnival Four Stone Hearth is up at Middle…
Below follows an abstract for a talk I will be giving later this year at WOCAL 6. Ideophones are marked…
Time flies vuuu. About one month ago, The Ideophone has silently celebrated its first birthday kananana. English interspersed with ideophones…
Phonology Assistant (PA) is a free phonology tool by SIL that (as of version 3.0) works interactively with the data…
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…