Category: Anthropology
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Clarifying confusing linguistic terminology
So perhaps this is something you’ve never thought about: how come we make the distinction between letters and punctuation marks?
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More than words
Language is arguably what makes us human. Any Google search will yield millions of writings from people of all occupations— distinguished linguists, biologists, and even philosophers— confirming this finding.
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Phonetics
One of the great discoveries of linguistics is that all languages use the same set of building blocks.
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Ancient African Feminism
African women in history were afforded rights that women in other places were not, which enabled them to rise to success in multiple areas.
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Science in classical Africa
The history of human scientific advancement is littered with contributions from societies from around the world, yet Africans strangely rarely get credited in this affair.
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Orthographies for constructed languages
Writing systems extend even to fiction— famously so!
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Quick primer on computational linguistics
Computational Linguistics stretches all the way back to the Cold War era, where we built machines to translate Russian to English. This task is called machine translating, or MT.
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Syntactic processing
Given a set of linguistic rules that describe how elements of a sentence can be put together, a program called a parser will try to find the best grammatical analysis of a sentence. if it’s ambiguous it will produce all analyses.
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History and evolution of writing
The historical record is often divided into two parts: before and after written records (and therefore, writing at all). So, what are the first records of writing?
