Great episode

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"Ambidextrous" means having two right hands.

The right hand is usually dominant so that's generally seen as a good thing. But it can also mean you're a double dealer, able to play both sides equally well.

#etymology #linguistics #right #ambidextrous #language

Texting didn't kill language, it gave it a speed upgrade. Your great-grandparents invented slang too, they just didn't do it at 2am.

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Conférencier : Ur Shlonsky (l'Université de Genève)
Titre : « The ergative extraction constraint »
Lieu : A-3316, Pavillon Aquin, UQAM
Date : le vendredi 23 octobre 2026
Heure : 16h à 17h

#linguistique #langage #langues #syntaxe #morphologie #grammaire #linguistics #syntax #grammar #langsky

New Cambridge Element

Charting Translation Reception: Methods and Challenges by Bei Hu is out now and Open Access! Explore how readers engage with translation across languages, cultures, and media.

https://cup.org/4B79u2d

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🚨 New Cambridge Elements🚨

Clausal Constructions and Clause Formation in Swedish by Maia Andréasson & Benjamin Lyngfelt, Out Now and #OpenAccess, in the Construction Grammar series!

https://cup.org/4ywF4of

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Old English spoken by the Anglo-Saxons was later influenced by Norse-speaking Vikings and French-speaking Normans. This helps explain why modern English has such a large and diverse vocabulary. #Linguistics

Thirty-two speakers in an MRI scanner, five vowels: vocal tract anatomy accounts for about half the leftover acoustic variation, and the same pattern shows up across ten languages. #Linguistics #Anthropology #LanguageEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/vocal-trac...

Annie's Origin of Words and Phrases
"Gone to Pot"
#etymology, #wordorigins, #linguistics, #languagehistory, #wordnerd

Milosavljević, Stefan. 2026. Imperfectum as a window into the interaction between viewpoint aspect and telicity: A view from Torlak. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
11(1), 1–49. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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The researchers suggest several possible explanations, including the suppression of racial bias & the possibility that race may outweigh persona in how listeners form expectations.

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🧵 3/4

Both “nerdy” & “chill” Black characters were judged as more precise than the white characters in the earlier study with no significant difference between the two Black personas.

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🧵 2/4

But when Mikaela Belle Martin and Andrea Beltramarama tested Black characters, they found something unexpected.

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Earlier work found that “nerdy” characters were treated as more precise than “chill” ones.

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Podobryaev, Alexander & Ivlieva, Natalia. 2026. Semantic number agreement in Balkar. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–25.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Santos, Wesley dos. 2026. Clausal nominalization in Ka(g)wahíva. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–57. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics #DiamondOpenAccess