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New publication: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014 (Springer)
Chapters by leading scholars in pragmatics and corpus linguistics, amongst others Jacob Mey, Jacques Moeschler, Cliff Goddard, Stefan Gries, etc. Click here for further information on the volume
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Mach and mascarpone: testing how vocabulary is gendered
A survey has shown an ‘awesomely sexist’ discrepancy between the English words understood by different genders (The Guardian Language blog)
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin (27/06/2014)
Click here to read the new issue
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Internet Language Research
The Economist (19-06-2014) IF YOU’VE been on Facebook recently, and you’re the kind of person who reads this column, there’s a good chance you’ve seen one of two viral language tests going round. Like many things on Facebook, they’re a fun diversion. Unlike many things on Facebook, they’re helping serious researchers learn about language and […]
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New issue of the Language and Education Bulletin (13/6/2014)
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Rise of the machine translators (The Economist, Jun 4th 2014)
THOSE passingly familiar with machine translation (MT) may well have reacted in the following ways at some point. “Great!” would be one such, on plugging something into the best-known public and free version, Google Translate, and watching the translation appear milliseconds later. “Wait a second…” might be the next, from those who know both languages. […]