October Competition!
What very common consonant phoneme is absent from the inventory of Hawaiian? a) /p/ b) /k/ c) /t/ Just email your answer to extra@cambridge.org by 31st October 2010, with subject line ‘October...
View ArticleDavid Crystal: Champion of the English Language
The Guardian have written a brilliant article about David Crystal and the 30 years of ‘language gems’ he has given the world. Read the full article at...
View ArticleCompetition: Win 5 Cambridge University Press books of your choice!
Take part in our Applied Linguistics Zone competition for the chance to win 5 Cambridge University Press paperbacks of your choice. Just click on the link below to see 6 questions relating to the...
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Sapir, Whorf, and the hypothesis that wasn’t
by Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University author of the upcoming book The Bilingual Mind and what it tells us about language and thought One of the linchpins of human information-processing are the frames...
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Bilingual Language Acquisition
Introduction Bingual language acquisition The terms bilingual and bilingualism have received diverse definitions. In this book, bilingual (the person), and bilingualism (the condition or state of...
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Some unsolved questions about the languages of the Jews
written by Professor Bernard Spolsky It’s great to be relevant! A few weeks after my sociolinguistic history of the Jewish people was published, a Reuters story highlighted a dispute between the...
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Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World
Post written by Jennifer Austin, María Blume & Liliana Sánchez authors of Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World. Bilingualism, and how it affects language and cognitive development, is a topic...
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Text Messaging and the Downfall of Civilization
By Abby Kaplan author of Women Talk More Than Men and Other Myths about Language Explained For years now, observers have been alert to a growing social menace. Like Harold Hill, they warn that there’s...
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Uptalk: The Phenomenon of Rising Intonation: an interview with author Paul...
1. Can you define uptalk very briefly for those who don’t know? Uptalk is the use of rising intonation (voice pitch) at the ends of statements or parts of statements. It is sometimes referred to as the...
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Language, cats and extra-terrestrials
Blog post written by Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge I’d like to begin by talking about my cat, Clover. He really is very intelligent: he knows exactly how to wake me up in the morning, exactly...
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Trump’s Monolingual Disadvantage
Blog Post by Douglas Kibbee, author of Language and the Law: Linguistic Inequality in America Early in the fall of 2016 several news agencies speculated that Donald Trump might be suffering from early...
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The merits of a case study approach in communication disorders
Blog post by Louise Cummings, Nottingham Trent University. The case study has had something of a bad press in recent years. How often do we hear that they provide low-quality evidence of the...
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Interview with Sali A. Tagliamonte
SALI A. TAGLIAMONTE is Canada Research Chair in Language Variation and Change and a Full Professor and Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the...
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Language as Symbolic Power
Written by Claire Kramsch, author of Language as Symbolic Power When twenty years ago I decided to teach an undergraduate course on Language and Power in my German department at UC Berkeley, I didn’t...
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