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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Singlish: Creole, creoloid, creolized language?

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Today's post is brought to you by "ongoing problems with terminology in linguistics". As my newsfeed this week has filled u...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

More Singapore English words in Oxford English Dictionary

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The BBC just covered this story:  Singapore terms join Oxford English Dictionary , which is basically about how Singapore English words lik...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

A phonological and phonetic description of Sumi, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nagaland

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So I should probably apologise / apologize for my lack of updates the past year or so. It's been pretty crazy since I started grad scho...
Monday, December 2, 2013

The examples linguists use

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My apologies to all my readers, I just haven't had all that much time to blog since I started grad school, though I have a lot of thing...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

On Not Having a Mother Tongue

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At the moment, I'm TA-ing for a course called Language and Power here at the University of Oregon, and I've been recounting the f...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Fun with tone sandhi - The solution!

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Okay, I apologise for the long delay, but finally(!), I present you with the solution to the problem set I posted in my last blog post, man...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Fun with tone sandhi

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The past few months, I've been learning a language here in Singapore that's been noted for its crazy mind-bending use of  tone san...