Jerome Bruner (who turns 100 today!) writes in his 1983 autobiography (emphasis in original): “How puzzling that there should be…
Together with Giovanni Rossi I’ve organised an invited panel at the 14th International Pragmatic Conference in Antwerp, July 2015. Contributors…
Charles F. Hockett (1916-2000) is well-known for his work on the design features of language. Many linguists will know his 1960 article in Scientific…
Two months ago we started a new book series with the innovative open access publisher Language Science Press: Conceptual Foundations of Language…
Today, Nature published a news feature by Cat Ferguson, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky (Retraction Watch) in which I am…
Charles Hockett had interesting views on the relation between iconicity and arbitrariness. Here is a key quote: The difference of…
Organisers Dr. Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) Prof. Sharon Rose (University of California, San Diego) African ideophones and their contribution to…
The September/October issue of Scientific American MIND features an article written by me and N.J. Enfield entitled “Universal Social Rules Underlie…
There is an urgent need for the comparative study, over as much of the world as possible, of the full…
Veel wetenschappers onderhouden een haat-liefde verhouding met de media. Media-aandacht is moeilijk te krijgen en als je het eenmaal hebt…
Instead of probing the cultural or historical context for musical utterances, or the complex networks of social interaction that give…
Where moderation is not utterly overstepped, the wealth of sound in languages can be compared to coloration in painting. The…
There is no doubt, from all points of sociological, or psychological analysis, and in any question of theory, the manner…
Guest posting by Gwilym Lockwood, PhD student in the Neurobiology of Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.…
Words evolve not as blobs of ink on paper but in face to face interaction. The nature of language as…
I just got back from Japan. Because of an early flight out, I booked an overnight stay at Narita Airport…
Gisteren was ik op de eerste vakconferentie Wetenschapscommunicatie in de Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek in Rotterdam. Samen met een aantal collega’s…
Gek op cross-overs van kunst en wetenschap, muziek en experiment? Ik ook. Daarom organiseer ik met mijn collega’s Tessa Verhoef…
Just a heads-up to let interested readers know of a newish article on the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones by yours…
Last year Sabine Reiter defended an interesting PhD thesis on ideophones in Awetí, a Tupian language spoken in the Upper…