Tag: linguistics
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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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Tactile writing systems
Where does Braille get it’s name from? Find out in this interesting linguistic story.
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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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Constructed writing systems
Let’s take a detour and time travel a bit— only about 200 years— to around 1809 in America. We’re going to go over some cool stories in linguistics.
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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?