Felix K. Ameka YouTube video by Abralin

What can interjections, discourse particles and other 'marginal' elements of language teach us about culture, communication and cognition? Felix Ameka (@unileiden.bsky.social) shares his work on African languages in this Abralin talk.
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I feel a kinship with Percy on this matter.

PROSE Award Editors Series: Joseph Pomp - AAP For the second installment of our PROSE Award Editors Series, we speak with Harvard University Press’ Joseph Pomp, editor of A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think by Ca...

Nice interview with Caleb’s editor about work and the Prose award (which Caleb has won twice now). publishers.org/prose-award-...

President Biden issued a historic apology for Native American boarding schools. Here’s what policymakers can do next to support tribal education President Joe Biden issued an apology for the U.S. Indian Boarding Schools program, a century-long concerted effort by the federal government to destroy Native American culture

Very important issue about education and Native America. www.brookings.edu/articles/pre...

The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

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Abstract of an upcoming talk based on Peirce.

Giving an introduction to semeiotics (with an 'e') today. One of the slides.

From Fieldwork to Linguistic Theory: A Tribute to Dan Everett (Session 2) YouTube video by Tedlab

I spent 2.5 hours in the MRI scanner for this. Ev Fedorenko on neurolinguistic evidence for my ability to speak Pirahã

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Peirce using his birth to poke fun at Descartes's doubt.

'Idioma que falamos determina como pensamos': o pesquisador que cresceu com indígenas na Amazônia YouTube video by BBC News Brasil

BBC Brazil report on mine and Caleb's research. Not as related as they might think. Caleb's is much more quantitative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3o_...

Bob Levine's new paper on Peircean inference fits exactly my own view being developed in my in-progress "Peircean Linguistics."

New paper out by Caleb Everett on how the Pirahã language relies on vowels more than any other language in phonotactics. My interpretation is that their main function is as prosody carriers.