Linguistics/language

Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing by Harald Baumeister, Christian Montag (2019, book review)

19. March 2020

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 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…

Book review, Computer science, Linguistics/language, Psychology

Linguistics paper (for class): Typology and statistics

13. January 2016

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 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…

Linguistics/language, Math/Statistics

Approximate string matching in R

25. July 2015

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 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…

Computer science, Linguistics/language

Orthographic reform and psycholinguistics: a selective synthesizing review

13. November 2014

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 it here. Psycholinguistics and orthography reform

Linguistics/language

Review: Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis

11. November 2014

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 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…

Linguistics/language

Review of Introduction to psycholinguistics, Understanding Language Science by MJ Traxler

13. January 2014

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 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…

Linguistics/language, Psychology

Theory of mind and reasoning complexity (paper for some linguistics class)

2. October 2013

The assignment was: Any aspect? :D I just wrote stuff about formal logic. So no more research was needed. Lucky. SMU paper 1

Linguistics/language, Logic

Comments on Linguistic Anthropology (Laura Ahearn)

6. April 2013 0 Comments

Consider 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…

Linguistics/language

Review + comments: Analyzing Grammar, An Introduction (Paul R. Kroeger, 2005)

2. April 2013 0 Comments

Cambridge.University.Press.Analyzing.Grammar.An.Introduction.Jun.2005 free pdf download Overall, there is nothing much to say about this book. It covers most stuff. Neither particularly good, or interesting, or particularly bad or uninteresting, IMO. — Forexample, what is the meaning of the word hello? What information does it convey? It is a very difﬁcult word to deﬁne, but every…

Language, Linguistics/language

The usefulness of sentences, a hiarchial view?

8. February 2013 0 Comments

(from A natural history of negation) i had been thinking about a similar idea. but these work fine as a beginning. a good hierarchy needs a lvl for approximate truth as well (like Newton’s laws), as well as actual truths. but also perhaps a dimension for the relevance of the information conveyed. a sentence can…

Linguistics/language, Metaphilosophy