tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.comments2024-03-01T18:56:18.314+11:00Humans Who Read GrammarsHedvig Skirgårdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03689179680848604827noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-77294702143155972162021-04-13T17:34:15.218+10:002021-04-13T17:34:15.218+10:00If you want to learn more, read this paper Jesse w...If you want to learn more, read this paper Jesse wrote with Martin Kohlberger<br /><br />Stewart, J., & Kohlberger, M. (2017). Earbuds: A Method for Analyzing Nasality in the Field.<br /><br />https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274373729_Earbuds_A_new_method_for_measuring_nasality_in_the_fieldHedvig Skirgårdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03689179680848604827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-9902006163040773472021-02-02T12:20:46.528+11:002021-02-02T12:20:46.528+11:00«Granularity»
Just some immediate thoughts; a few ...«Granularity»<br />Just some immediate thoughts; a few more-recent maps came to my mind (that has nothing to do with racism):<br /><br />1. The National Geographic's <a href="https://i.redd.it/1moyiyszlcq51.jpg" rel="nofollow">Voices of the World</a> map (1999). I had this map on the wall when I was living with my parents. It amazed me how a language map by a US organisation that has done so much for indigenous America, can have a language map with a separate colour/text for Hmong-Mien (which is good), but just a single colour/text for each of North, Meso, and South America. Old-World bias I suppose.<br /><br />2. The subgrouping within Yue Chinese in, e.g. the 1st (1987/1989) and 2nd (2012) editions of the Language Atlas of China. The classification schemes here and elsewhere are way more reasonable/detailed for the Yue dialects in Guangdong, especially around the Pearl River Delta, than in Guangxi. One problem is that most scholars are from Guangdong, the Pearl River Delta in particular (≈ Cantonese speakers). Another problem is that, even though the availability of data of the Yue dialects in Guangxi and western Guangdong was already not so bad by 2012, people used very outdated methods when classifying speech varieties.<br /><br />With the lumping of the "isolating languages" in the 1924 De Geer map, I suppose it was indeed part of the racism package. More directly, I suppose it was the belief that the morphologically "isolating" languages were degenerate in comparison with the "fusional" languages. I have done fieldwork on both morphologically complex and morphologically isolating languages. Even now, sometimes I get dismissive looks for working on morphologically isolating languages from, e.g., some European linguists. Many of them are blind to the high level of complexity that lies with the morphologically isolating languages. (Sometimes there are racism problems too; rather than arguing with them, I usually go around and educate their students instead, if they are nice.)Hilário de Sousahttp://hilario.bambooradical.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-59000369137827149742020-11-02T08:33:00.702+11:002020-11-02T08:33:00.702+11:00Since I am forever losing this link, I'm posti...Since I am forever losing this link, I'm posting it here:<br />https://www.youtube.com/user/WikiTongues?fbclid=IwAR1fLPpkL35AP2p33ZbFrl_egEDRqsp8DXxIia4lDKUuTFYoYdM-5p4Fx_E<br />Annemarie Verkerkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747297526182358435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-27193730609965366412019-11-05T12:20:29.145+11:002019-11-05T12:20:29.145+11:00I don't think that is a contradiction. They ar...I don't think that is a contradiction. They are clearly communicating what they imagine that target audience to be. The fact that the real world is changing so that it doesn't line up with their intentions is unfortunate, and should maybe cause them to change their aims, but the communication is still clear.<br /><br />I also think that there are benefits to "throwing things over the fence". Neither extreme position (overanalysing target audience or not caring at all) is good, I'm not falling for slipping down some slope here. Hedvig Skirgårdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03689179680848604827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-86899427478595520252019-11-04T20:27:49.122+11:002019-11-04T20:27:49.122+11:00It seems that
> "The Ethnologue user aud...It seems that <br /><br />> "The Ethnologue user audience is currently changing, whether SIL International wants it to or not"<br /><br />contradicts your claim that<br /><br />> "When providing a comprehensive resource [...] it is key to be entirely clear on what the aim and target audience is"<br /><br />Of course, providing something without hope that anyone wants it would be pointless. But other than that, I'm convinced the "throwing things over the fence" publication strategy has led to a lot of value for both, data and software publications.Robert Forkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07109679408812235499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-32533280096524242592018-11-06T22:55:49.436+11:002018-11-06T22:55:49.436+11:00Funny how Austria's 8 million German speakers ...Funny how Austria's 8 million German speakers are only shown as "+"...David Marjanovićnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-29652751618854103322018-09-14T04:41:36.620+10:002018-09-14T04:41:36.620+10:00Hi! Thanks! You are right - krijten is listed as a...Hi! Thanks! You are right - krijten is listed as a probable earlier form of kristen (here: http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/krijsen), which is cognate with German kreischen, with the same meaning. It's funny though that kreißen and kreischen are so similar; the wiktionary page for Eng. cry gives them all as cognate: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cry <br />Annemarie Verkerkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747297526182358435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-51129480186077064162018-09-11T08:58:51.813+10:002018-09-11T08:58:51.813+10:00Native speaker of German here. Yup, Kreiß- is a cr...Native speaker of German here. Yup, <i>Kreiß-</i> is a cran morpheme in the contemporary language, occurring in <i>Kreißsaal</i> and nowhere else.<br /><br />The ß shows it can't be cognate with <i>krijsen</i>, though. I bet the German cognate of that is <i>kreischen</i> "to screech". Is there any <i>krijt-</i> or <i>kreit-</i> in Dutch?David Marjanovićnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-5508883744952148822018-04-26T20:53:04.309+10:002018-04-26T20:53:04.309+10:00Thanks, edited.
Thanks, edited. <br />Hedvig Skirgårdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03689179680848604827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-24384321477178580372018-04-26T20:17:58.291+10:002018-04-26T20:17:58.291+10:00The MaxPlanck thing are NOT x-rays, that's the...The MaxPlanck thing are NOT x-rays, that's the crucial point! It's high-resolution, real time MRT, not dangerous radiation like x-rays!<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00499839137509460544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-84903747291582635392018-03-13T19:30:55.021+11:002018-03-13T19:30:55.021+11:00Just to not forget about the more critical paper b...Just to not forget about the more critical paper by Nigel Fabb, here is the full reference:<br />Fabb, Nigel. 2016. Linguistic theory, linguistic diversity and whorfian economics. In Victor Ginsburgh & Shlomo Weber (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of economics and language, 17-60. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.<br />Annemarie Verkerkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747297526182358435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-17032170375501307112017-09-29T22:50:30.268+10:002017-09-29T22:50:30.268+10:00Thanks for pointing towards this blog! 7 posts on ...Thanks for pointing towards this blog! 7 posts on making various kinds of maps with R, great.Annemarie Verkerkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747297526182358435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-13492570680425894812017-09-28T04:56:34.248+10:002017-09-28T04:56:34.248+10:00Thomas Pellard on his blog https://cipanglo.hypoth...Thomas Pellard on his blog https://cipanglo.hypotheses.org/375 presents a very detailed tutorial of how to draw a linguistic map with R.Guillaume Jacqueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00057915086735521613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-90951609679446082392017-08-07T11:11:08.819+10:002017-08-07T11:11:08.819+10:00Oh *blushing* why thank you.Oh *blushing* why thank you.Hedvig Skirgårdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03689179680848604827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-87237275526927625932017-08-04T19:23:05.928+10:002017-08-04T19:23:05.928+10:00I think I love you Hedvig! Awesome guide, will be ...I think I love you Hedvig! Awesome guide, will be very useful! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00635819879791240347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-78172369893871154692017-07-08T01:05:00.552+10:002017-07-08T01:05:00.552+10:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.oestenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829036808887582291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-61535823053635475932017-06-28T19:13:23.440+10:002017-06-28T19:13:23.440+10:00This is great.This is great.dojumahttp://construction.uonbi.ac.kenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-63603453637545488222017-06-28T19:11:45.170+10:002017-06-28T19:11:45.170+10:00wow nice article.wow nice article.dojumahttp://construction.uonbi.ac.kenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-80938489791657997402017-06-28T19:10:32.095+10:002017-06-28T19:10:32.095+10:00Wow the blog is so informative.Wow the blog is so informative.dojumahttp://construction.uonbi.ac.kenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-15761763084141719852017-06-19T02:55:17.096+10:002017-06-19T02:55:17.096+10:00Hello friend! The first map of Africa is from Ethn...Hello friend! The first map of Africa is from Ethnologue, the second one is a screen grab from Langscape.Hedvig Skirgårdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03689179680848604827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-65298591853570637272017-05-22T20:43:13.686+10:002017-05-22T20:43:13.686+10:00The link to the list of pre-written statements has...The link to the list of pre-written statements has changed<br /><br />http://site.uit.no/castl/events/road-ahead/Hedvig Skirgårdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03689179680848604827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-90729464254724407302017-05-04T07:17:39.759+10:002017-05-04T07:17:39.759+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Madonaldohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05637720202380079008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-26535077326924139372017-03-13T18:58:07.653+11:002017-03-13T18:58:07.653+11:00Thanks, interesting!Thanks, interesting!Jeremy Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02949376439100679223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-81610731227057497322017-03-13T08:18:37.022+11:002017-03-13T08:18:37.022+11:00Is that a digitized David Dalby´s Carte des langue...Is that a digitized David Dalby´s Carte des langues de l'Afrique http://www.linguasphere.info/lcontao/carte-des-langues-de-lafrique.html ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300680252997007251.post-82156789393151288342017-03-08T20:32:41.814+11:002017-03-08T20:32:41.814+11:00I couldn't agree more!I couldn't agree more!oestenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829036808887582291noreply@blogger.com