10 stories tagged with #linguistics, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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Why "children," not "childs"? (2016)
Why do some English plurals end in "en" instead of "s"?…
Love Language
“The undying dream of Esperanto.“…
Njattyela Sreedharan, self-taught linguist and creator of four-language Dravidian dictionary, passes away at 87
Njattyela Sreedharan, linguist who linked Dravidian languages in a dictionary, passed away at 87 in Kerala.…
A Fine-Tuned BERT Classifier for Personal-Letter Titles in Late-Ming and Early-Qing Collected Works
I present Lepton (Letter Prediction), a fine-tuned BERT classifier that predicts whether a title in a Classical Chinese wenji table of contents is a personal letter or a closely co…
Death of 'drongo': Are Aussie insults and swearwords dying out?
Classic Australian swearwords and insults are becoming less popular with younger generations. What does losing them mean for our culture?…
What the heck is a LURR? New Yorkers scoff at LIRR pronunciation debate
Some East Enders insist on calling the Long Island Railroad the "LURR" -- but most in the BIg Apple think that's just play silly.…
Hangul, Seen by an Engineer: What Our Alphabets Don't Do
Une analyse interdisciplinaire : sciences cognitives, théorie de l'information et économie…
Vendergood: Reconstructing a 1905 constructed language for AI agent cognition
Reproduction and AI-application extension of Vendergood, the constructed language created by William James Sidis. - mekickdemons-creator/libro-vendergood…
LLMs as Linguistic Probes: A Graduate Student's Guide to Advanced Syntax, Semantics, and Efficient Fine-Tuning
The intersection of large language models (LLMs) and advanced linguistics has moved beyond...…
Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages
A discussion on how features of programming languages can make it hard to avoid expressing or talking about things you may or may not care about as a programmer.…