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…
Theory of mind and reasoning complexity (paper for some linguistics class)
The assignment was: Any aspect? :D I just wrote stuff about formal logic. So no more research was needed. Lucky. SMU paper 1
Comments on Linguistic Anthropology (Laura Ahearn)
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…
Review + comments: Analyzing Grammar, An Introduction (Paul R. Kroeger, 2005)
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.…
The usefulness of sentences, a hiarchial view?
(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…
Paper: Social Structure and Language Structure: the New Nomothetic Approach
Social Structure and Language Structure the New Nomothetic Approach found via Gene Expression, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/01/a-correlation-between-acacia-trees-and-tonal-languages/ Recent studies have taken advantage of newly available, large-scale, cross-linguistic data and new statistical techniques to…
Review: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
Fashionable Nonsense, Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science - Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont ebook download pdf free The book contains the best single chapter on filosofy of science that iv…
Exam paper on negations
Exam paper for Danish and Languages of the world