Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
As every reader knows, whenever powers that be come up with a new euphemism for something, this works, and the previous meanings and associations are quickly forgotten. That’s why we… oh right: Linguists are familiar with the phenomenon, which may be called the euphemism treadmill. People invent new words for emotionally charged referents, but soon…
Continue ReadingHave you ever looked into the hypothesis of genetic differences underlying language types? such as pic.twitter.com/RWktYdllwK — Whyvert (@whyvert) May 12, 2021 I have not, but Lynn has noted that East Asians have a relative advantage in visual-spatial ability, and that’s their written language, possibly some gene-culture co-evolution. One study shows East Asians who speak…
Continue ReadingBaumeister, H., & Montag, C. (Eds.). (2019). Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing: New Developments in Psychoinformatics. Springer Nature. This book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of mobile sensing for digital phenotyping in the field of Psychoinformatics. The respective chapters, written by authoritative researchers, cover various aspects related to the use of these technologies in…
Continue ReadingThis may have some interest. Basically, typologists cannot into statistics and it shows. On the other hand, it means there is a large number of low hanging fruit for someone with skills in statistical programming. PDF on OSF: https://osf.io/p2f9u/ This was handed in as a paper for typology class. Quite likely the last class I…
Continue ReadingIn trying to merge some data, I was confronted with a problem of matching up strings where the author had mutilated them. He had done so in two ways: cutting them off at the 8th character or using personal abbreviations. The first one is relatively easy to deal with. The second one is not. So…
Continue ReadingI wrote this for a class some time ago, but apparently forgot to post it here before. I need to cite it in my bachelor’s thesis, so I will put it here. Psycholinguistics and orthography reform
Continue Readinghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16641082-writing-systems http://libgen.org/search.php?req=coulmas+writing&open=0&view=simple&phrase=1&column=def I read this book as part of background reading for my bachelor (which im writing here) after seeing it referred to in a few other books. As a textbook it seems fine, except for the chapter dealing with psycholinguistics. Nearly all the references in this section are clearly dated, and the author is…
Continue ReadingOverall an interesting introduction. Some chapters were much more interesting to me than others, which were somewhere between kinda boring and boring. Generally, the book is way too light on the statistical features of the studies cited. When I hear of a purportedly great study, I want to know the sample size and the significance…
Continue ReadingThe assignment was: Any aspect? :D I just wrote stuff about formal logic. So no more research was needed. Lucky. SMU paper 1
Continue ReadingConsider Marx’s famous words in “The Eighteenth Brumaire o f Louis Bonaparte” : “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and trans mitted from the past” (Marx 1978[1852]:595). In place o…
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