Ramblings on linguistics
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How do children know what words mean?
Assuming that children can recognise a word (see
this post
on how they manage that), how do they know what it means?
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Why do languages gain and lose sounds?
I attended a fascinating talk recently by
Professor Andrew Wedel
, who has discovered how to predict whether a language will gain or lose sounds.
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