Author: Teri Campbell

377: Mailbag of Uncomfortableness

The mail keeps coming, and we keep answering.

  • Is English really a dialect of Chinese?
  • Why do people say “uncomfortableness”, when we already have “discomfort”?
  • Are “ankh” and “anchor” related?
  • How does learning traditional languages help communities?
  • Is there a

376: Language Hotspots (with Xia Hua)

Some parts of the world are packed with languages. Others not so much.

Is there a reason that some places are linguistically dense? Researchers are turning up connections between biological ecology and language ecology.

Xia Hua studies language diversity, and …

375: Community Size Matters (with Limor Raviv)

Why are some languages more systematic than others?

We often hear about the irregularities in English, and other languages have them as well. But new work shows that systematicity in a language is influenced by the number of speakers in …

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