GamesWithWords

The toughest cop “alive”

At little while back, while walking down the street and minding my own business, I saw the following advertisement:

A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers

Dr. Joshua Hartshorne, Principle Investigator at Boston College’s Language Learning Lab, along with Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Steven Pinker just had an article accepted in…

Ethics

I’m doing my periodic re-certification on research ethics. One of the questions on one of the quizzes is as follows:

TRUE/FALSE: A good alternative to the current peer review process would be web logs (BLOGS) where postings where [sic] papers would be posted and reviewed by those who have…

How does the brain read?

Reading is an important skill, so it’s not surprising it gets a lot of attention from researchers. Reading is an ancient skill — at least in some parts of the world — but not so old that we don’t know when it was invented (as opposed to, for instance, basic arithmetic). And, unlike…

Misunderstood

In an effort to understand linguistics slightly better, I am reading Ray Jackendoff’s Foundations of Language. He starts off the first chapter with the tale of woe of the modern linguist:

Language and biology provide an interesting contrast… People expect to be baffled or bored…