Dear fellow linguists, I just wanted to share a few links: This is a great article I found in the German quaterly Fluter. Every issue is dedicated to one specific political, cultural, societal, economic (etc.) topic. One of the most interesting issues for me of course was dealing with LANGUAGE. The article entitled “Weissu – is… [Read more…]
January 25, 2012
Dear readers, please excuse my quasi-absence for so long. Private reasons made me have little time for blogging. But I did not spend my time idly: I developed a new research proposal within the field of Sociolinguistics. (One more thing: of course it is not allowed to copy the contents – also in extracts –… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
This tricky question came up in my class discussing English Morphology and it occupied my mind for a while now, so I started researching a little. Obviously we really hit the mark and touched a highly discussed topic in Morphology. The task that raised this question was to draw tree diagrams of the following adjectives:… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
In Spanish [r] and [ɾ] have phonemic status: they provide a difference meaning forming a minimal pair. During my studies, I was told that Spanish ‘but’ <pero> [peɾo] and ‘dog’ <perro>[pero] form such a minimal pair (please correct me if I’m wrong). Since I am able to pronounce the rolled/trilled /r/ as well as the… [Read more…]
March 11, 2011
Finally, I have spectrogram proof for consonants blocking the airstream at different places in the mouth. I mentioned this problem in another post: I tried to see the difference between the pronunciation of /d/ and /b/. I recorded myself, but the spectrogram did not really show significant differences. Hence, I recorded my boyfriend to see… [Read more…]
March 10, 2011
Well, I sat down and tried to categorize the consonants cleverly to get good, comprehensible and analyzable spectrogram results. I decided to sort them into the main voiced [p, t, k, tʃ, f, θ, s, ʃ] and voiceless ones [b, d, ɡ, dʒ, v, ð, z, ʒ] of the English. It was a lot of (fun)… [Read more…]
March 10, 2011
Today I recorded and analyzed the spectrograms of diphthongs which was quite successful. Consonants on the other hand, are very hard to distinguish from each other and sometimes analyzing the spectrogram seems more like interpreting it or “trying to see want you want to see or should presumably see”. Therefore, I am still trying to… [Read more…]
March 9, 2011
Dear readers at the moment I am preparing for my Linguistic Analysis class next semester. I restructured the course to make it more fun and related to practice; hence, I decided to work with Praat, a free scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics, to make Phonetics/Phonology more interesting and fun! I wondered… [Read more…]
February 25, 2011
This is my final PhD proposal and I have already got positive answers from different supervisors of universities in the UK. Hence I thought it is worth showing you, except my preliminary timeline. The selected bibliography covers a wide range of literature on metaphor (among others) and is quite long; maybe you will find an… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
Less is more – what does this mean, and why does it work? A conceptual metaphor, or in other words: the connection between a source and a target is very often based on co- and re-occuring correlations in experience. An illustrative and classic example of a conceptual metaphor that emerged from correlations in experience is the… [Read more…]
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January 29, 2012
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