Skeptophilia

Given my ongoing fascination with languages, it's a little surprising that I didn't come across a paper published a while back in th...

My novel In the Midst of Lions ,  the first of a trilogy, has a character named Anderson Quaice, who is a linguistics professor.  He also ha...

I've been fascinated with words ever since I can remember.  It's no real mystery why I became a writer, and (later) got my master...

Even though it's not the area of linguistics I concentrated on, I've always been fascinated with phonetics -- the sound repertoire o...

Being a linguistics nerd, I've often wondered why the phonemic repertoire differs between different languages.  Put more simply: why do ...

A friend of mine, knowing my interest in linguistics and birdwatching, sent me a link to a fairly mindblowing post on the blog Corvid Resea...

Language is defined as arbitrary symbolic communication . "Symbolic" because spoken sounds or written character strings stand fo...

Given my ongoing fascination with languages, it's a little surprising that I didn't come across a paper published two years ago in t...

I've been a language geek for a very long time, which at least partly explains how a guy who has a bachelor's degree in physics and ...