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Month: December 2013

Men are increasingly rising in pitch at the end of their sentences

More men speaking in girls’ ‘dialect’, study shows By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News 6 December 2013 Last updated at 01:37

December 6, 2013
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin

New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/69175957208

December 6, 2013
CFP Eurosla 2014: Corpus Pragmatics and Second Language Research

EUROSLA 2014 3-6 September 2014 (University of York) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE THEMATIC COLLOQUIUM “CORPUS PRAGMATICS AND SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH”

December 5, 2013
Johnson: We are all friends now

MANY languages use different words for “you”, depending on the relationship between the speaker and the addressee. “You” tends to have two versions throughout Europe (tu and vous in French; du and Sie in German; tu and lei in Italian, etc), and knowing how to use them is a big part of linguistic savvy. Typically…

December 4, 2013
Phrases Gone Astray

Modifying phrases should usually be adjacent to what they are describing. When such a phrase pops up in an unlikely part of the sentence, the effect ranges from clunkiness to confusion to unintended comedy. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/misplaced-phrases/

December 3, 2013

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