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Linguistics

  • Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow

    Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow

    Claire Bowern, The Conversation
    · Nov 18, 2016 · 03:30 pm
  • Beware the bad big wolf: Why you need to put your adjectives in the right order

    Beware the bad big wolf: Why you need to put your adjectives in the right order

    Simon Horobin, The Conversation
    · Sep 08, 2016 · 11:30 pm
  • Podcast: Several Indian languages face the risk of dying. Here's what we stand to lose

    Podcast: Several Indian languages face the risk of dying. Here's what we stand to lose

    Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian
    · Jul 28, 2016 · 03:30 pm
  • The book of 'The BFG' movie reminds us that wordplay is part of learning and mastering language

    The book of 'The BFG' movie reminds us that wordplay is part of learning and mastering language

    Simon Horobin, The Conversation
    · Jul 28, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • How the Queen’s English has had to defer to Africa’s rich multilingualism

    How the Queen’s English has had to defer to Africa’s rich multilingualism

    Rajend Mesthrie, The Conversation
    · Jul 26, 2016 · 05:30 am
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