News from Outside 丁香园AV
In the news: Articles on linguistics from across the globe
By Nicole North
Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability.
It was found that students used ChatGPT alongside many other tools, and in rather individualistic ways often to address specific challenges they felt they had with writing.
In new research, scientists from Nankai University and Kiel University analyzed the average sonority of basic words of nearly three-quarters of the world鈥檚 languages, and confirmed a positive correlation between sonority and local temperature.
A corpus-based analysis of lexical diversity in text varieties across genres.
Millions of speakers do not necessarily grant a language strength in academia. This has to be cultivated on a scientific, political, and cultural level, with sustained efforts from many institutions and specialists.
British comedian Michael McIntyre argued in a comedy routine that posh people can use any word to mean "drunk" in English. Two German linguists took Michael McIntyre's claim seriously and tested it in a linguistic study.
Scientists from the University of East Anglia and elsewhere studied 874 speakers of 29 different languages, including English, Spanish, Norwegian, Japanese, Mandarin, Tzeltal, and Telugu, to see how they use demonstratives.
Shared beliefs, assumptions, and feelings toward specific language forms often determine whether a specific language will survive or disappear, especially within multilinguistic societies.
Critics contend accent-softening software plunges us into a contemporary dystopia where technology is used to erase individuals鈥� differences, identity markers, and cultures.