Language Log is a group blog on language and linguistics started in the summer of 2003 by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum.languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ Philadelphia, PAJoined February 2009
Dialectometry: Every individual's speech is variable — and when we look beyond the individual, we see variation across space, time, style, and social structure — among other dimensions. And these variations are generally gradient rather than abrupt,… dlvr.it/T64SDc
The call / name of the gecko: This is a garrulous little creature who vainly and profoundly likes to enunciate its own name. Lots more gecko gabbing here: Note the wide range of vocalizations and verbalizations. The Neo-Latin gekko and English 'gecko'… dlvr.it/T640LV
Non-defined flower: This is a recent instagram post of the Vietnamese singer Suni Ha Linh. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SUNI (@sunihalinh) The translation is accurate. búbèi dìngyì de huā 不被定义的花 "undefined flower(s) / non-defined… dlvr.it/T61glK
Chinese dialectometry: fundamental flaws: Really happy to announce our new (open access) paper was finally published today in @LinguisticsJ! "Geographic structure of Chinese dialects: A computational dialectometric approach"doi.org/10.1515/ling-2… with… dlvr.it/T5zK9P
Despite their faces…: Jennifer Rubin, "Has Trump’s family abandoned him? I’m answering your questions", WaPo 4/24/2024: Q: Are Republicans the party of no? Why can't Republicans say yes? Instead of getting a border deal in exchange for Ukraine funding,… dlvr.it/T5yrNF
AI and real-time translation in Korea: Speaking of Korean translation and AI, as we did in recent posts (see "Selected readings"), let us take a look at the latest developments in Korea: New AI-based translation tools make their way into everyday life in… dlvr.it/T5xgWz
Korean oralization of Literary Sinitic: Si Nae Park came to Penn last Thursday (4/18/24) to talk about kugyŏl / gugyeol / kwukyel 구결 口訣 ("oral glossing"). Gugyeol, or kwukyel, is a system for rendering texts written in Classical Chinese into… dlvr.it/T5wTQG
Macroeconomics of AI?: Daron Acemoglu, "The Simple Macroeconomics of AI": ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates claims about the large macroeconomic implications of new advances in AI. It starts from a task-based model of AI’s effects, working through… dlvr.it/T5wDJy
Hendiadys and sleeping in parks: Samuel Bray, "Cruel AND Unusual?", Reason 4/21/2024: On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument in an Eighth Amendment case, City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. One thing I will be watching for is whether the… dlvr.it/T5sv4t
Yay Newfriend again: I got an echo of Saturday's post about chatbot pals, from an article yesterday in Intelligencer — John Herrman, "Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With You" ("The company is putting chatbots everywhere so you don’t go anywhere"): Meta has an… dlvr.it/T5sfVX
The future Sinitic languages of East Asia: Is monolingualism a normal, natural, necessary state of affairs for human beings? Can you imagine a world in which there were only one language? How is that even possible? These are questions that come to mind… dlvr.it/T5sfVN
That talkative pandemic…: Daniel Deutsch wrote: I had to read this headline a couple of times. "The pandemic cost 7 million lives, but talks to prevent a repeat stall" Is the pandemic talking? Is it trying to prevent a repeat stall? That garden path… dlvr.it/T5sfTj
Ask Dalí: A new feature at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg FL: According to an NPR story (Chloe Veltman, "An AI Salvador Dalí will answer any question when called on his famous 'lobster phone'"), The underlying model is OpenAI's GPT-4. Because GPT-4 is… dlvr.it/T5sfTN
Once again the Voynich manuscript: This is one of the most novel theories on the Voynich manuscript (Beinecke MS408; early 15th c.) that I've ever encountered, and there are many. The Voynich Manuscript, Dr Johannes Hartlieb and the Encipherment of… dlvr.it/T5sfQ9
Japanese borrowings and reborrowings: Most Americans probably know a few Japanese loanwords, especially those who were alive in the two or three decades after WWII, when so many terms from Japan entered the English language — kamikaze, banzai, bonsai,… dlvr.it/T5mLbp
l'Univers(i)té: In a comment on yesterday's post ("High vowel lenition/devoicing in French"), carveuir wrote: Ha! As a final-year undergraduate in 2015, I mentioned having come across devoicing of the second /i/ in "université" to my French linguistics… dlvr.it/T5kt7d
Crazy bone: One of the students in my class — all from China — hit her elbow on the edge of her desk and grimaced. I asked her, "Did you hit your crazy bone?" She didn't know what I meant, and none of the other students in the class knew either. I… dlvr.it/T5kTGY
Get around: One needs to be careful when using a phrasal verb that has a wide range of possible meanings. For example, if you're corresponding with a woman who travels a lot and you comment, wishing to commend her mobility, "You sure do get around a… dlvr.it/T5k35v
High vowel lenition/devoicing in French: On a trip to Québec in the 1970s, I asked a passerby for directions (in French), and he gave me an answer that at first I thought was in Polish or some other Slavic language unknown to me. He also pointed to the… dlvr.it/T5hf5q
Mix and match Japanese orthography: Most Language Log readers are aware that the Japanese writing system consists of three major components — kanji (sinoglyhs), hiragana (cursive syllabary), and katakana (block syllabary). I would argue that rōmaji… dlvr.it/T5dQJc
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