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New open access articles in Language and Linguistics now available

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Latest open access articles in Language and Linguistics from Cambridge
July 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Rest in peace, @babelstone.co.uk .
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Andrew C. West 魏安 1960–2025
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July 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Did you know that your existing linguistic repertoire can influence how you acquire new languages? In this issue, find out how Chinese speakers learning Spanish as their third language are influenced by their L2 English knowledge when producing voiced stops.

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March 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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9/ Read more about the fascinating connections to the English word “one” in this issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter:

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(Also available on Substack and Patreon.)
The etymology of ‘one’: From Proto-Indo-European to Modern English
There are over thirty English words that derive from the Proto-Indo-European word for ‘one’. This is the story of how they came to be, and what that story teaches us about how language works.
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June 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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There’s something that sticks in my mind about how distinctive phonemes (in this case, /l/) can become emblematic of a community or an identity. The sound itself carries something big. I don’t have any fleshed out ideas about it, but it feels important 🐦🐦
e-l-p.bsky.social Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · Jun 5
"'Our language is like the sea,' a wise old woman once told me. 'It carries our histories, our songs, our dreams.'" 🌊

In this poignant story, Amazigh student Lamiae Zeriouh reflects on her hometown by the sea - and how she is trying to breathe life back into her language and community.
The Lilt of Lamiae: The ⵍ
YouTube video by Endangered Languages Project
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June 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Obituary of Qiu Xigui on the Fudan News website this morning, including some nice pictures of his bibliomaniac office and the skype-style online supervision of his students after his eyesight had deteriorated:
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沉痛悼念！复旦文科杰出教授、古文字学泰斗裘锡圭逝世
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May 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Baxter and Sagart responded to Ho’s review of their Old Chinese reconstruction!
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Response to Ho Dah-an
Ho Dah-an’s 2016 review of our book Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction (2014) contains little discussion of the book’s main themes or proposals: he focuses instead on “errors” which, according to him, ...
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March 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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This is an amazing guide to Chinese etymography and the study of early Chinese writing, by Maxim Persikov (@gyankotsu on the app that must not be named)!

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How to Expose False Etymologies of Chinese Characters? An Introduction to the Study of (Early) Chinese Writing
Preface Today, Chinese characters are the only logographic writing system still in use globally. Because of this, sooner or later everyone encounters people trying desperately to find ‘pictur…
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January 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Sinologists! A former student is writing an MA thesis on count classifiers in early Middle Chinese. Anybody know of good corpora from the Warring States through Sui-Tang or so, particularly epigraphy, excavated texts, and anything else (particularly if vernacular) that might be a good source? 🀄📚
January 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Language and Place
Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place
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December 11, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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A fascinating detail in my 1607 Graduale Romanum, printed in Antwerp: a correction pinned directly onto the sheet music with a brass pin! A 17th-century "Typo-fix" to adapt the liturgical chant to correct a printing error.

I 😍 these details!

#BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory
December 7, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Interested in text analysis, reproducible research practices, and/or R?

Now available! "An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics: Reproducible Research using R". Routledge (hard copy/open access doi.org/10.4324/9781...) and web book (qtalr.com).

#rstats #reproducibleresearch
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December 8, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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Maybe this is widely known stuff, but first time I read anything about it. Found this East Asia chapter in Brentari ed. "Sign Languages" really interesting read: This chapter www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... 5/5
Variation in East Asian sign language structures (Chapter 22) - Sign Languages
Sign Languages - May 2010
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November 29, 2024 at 5:02 PM