Monthly Archives: July 2012

The hosts of Lexicon Valley interview Ben Schmidt, a graduate student in History at Princeton University, who has been using Google Books to establish anachronisms in contemporary programs. Listen to the fascinating interview: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2012/06/lexicon_valley_anachronisms_in_mad_men_downton_abbey_and_edith_wharton_.html Or go to Schmidt’s own website … Continue reading →

The Americas were settled by three waves of people from Siberia about 15,000 years ago. The way in which the Americas were populated has been a controversial topic in linguistic research; this research seems to prove a theory proposed by … Continue reading →

Burushaski, spoken in Pakistan, has finally been assigned into a genetic realtionship with other Indo-European languages: it’s of a North-Western type. http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/linguistics/article00403.html

Your international association for the study of the English language – in all its facets and in all its approaches: http://www.isle-linguistics.org/

A website produced by a research group at the University of Edinburgh allows you to hear words pronounced in a large variety of dialects of English, and to compare these words across the dialects. Listen to the speaker of Canadian … Continue reading →