A Navajo Poetry of Place
-Anthony K. Webster How sad it is that persons bent on debunking Native traditions in Alaska…have used linguistically naive variant spellings of Native place names… Read More »A Navajo Poetry of Place
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Variation in inflectional morphology
“Variable or non-standard realizations of inflectional morphology in English” sounds rather dry and academic, but the placement of suffixes within compound words or phrases can… Read More »Variation in inflectional morphology
Piecemeal Comments on Language and Gender (or PCs)
I currently have the privilege of TAing Intro to linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto and in the previous weeks the students read and… Read More »Piecemeal Comments on Language and Gender (or PCs)
Accent, Race, and Social Preferences
A piece in Scientific American Mind called “Accents Trump Skin Color” reviews work by Katherine Kinzler and colleagues suggesting that, for young children, accent is… Read More »Accent, Race, and Social Preferences
Monkey Grammar?
An article passed on by Ken Ehrensal from the New York Times on Campbell’s monkeys having grammar. The grammar is pretty simple but looks like… Read More »Monkey Grammar?