Book review: At Our Wits’ End (Ed Dutton, Michael Woodley, 2018)
I try to read many different kinds of books each year. Outside of my own fields, I try to consume high quality popular science, but mainly read academic books within…
Wordcel before it was cool: verbal tilt
Recently, the fashionable word to refer to a certain class of talking or writing heads is wordcel. A play on wordy and incel, if we take it from Urban Dictionary…
Polygenic euphemisms
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...…
East Asian ability tilt and ideographic written language
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1392623731835506691 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…
Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing by Harald Baumeister, Christian Montag (2019, book review)
Baumeister, 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…
Linguistics paper (for class): Typology and statistics
This 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…
Approximate string matching in R
In 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…
Orthographic reform and psycholinguistics: a selective synthesizing review
I 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…
Review: Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis
https://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…
Review of Introduction to psycholinguistics, Understanding Language Science by MJ Traxler
Overall 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…