The truth about grammatical gender (youtu.be)
This is my first true video essay. Go easy on me I'm only just figuring out how to edit. Bonus points to anyone who's able to identify all the clips I used.I...
The contrast between Welsh and English (streamable.com)
Mixtral 8x7B can process a 32K token context window and works in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and English. (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a "mixture of experts" (MoE) model with open weights that reportedly truly matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance—an achievement that has been claimed by others in the past but is being taken seriously by AI heavyweights such as OpenAI's Andrej...
ThinkCERCA Unveils New Science of Reading Aligned, Foundational Reading & Linguistics Course for Grades 6-12 (markets.businessinsider.com)
The key to ThinkCERCA's approach is the incorporation of linguistic principles....
Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (news.yahoo.com)
Discovery helps reveal how a long-lost empire used multiculturalism to achieve political stability
American Sign Language now Yale’s third most popular language - Yale Daily News (yaledailynews.com)
Since it was first offered in spring 2018, American Sign Language at Yale has grown to be the third largest language option, with over 200 students enrolled in ASL classes this semester.
[crosspost] I made an IPA keyboard for fcitx on Linux! (pub.kemonomimi.gay)
OP: @yukijoou:...
How can a word be its own opposite? (streamable.com)
A source: https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1712857499995357472...
Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages (www.science.org)
Researcher investigates undocumented prehistoric languages through irregularities in current languages (phys.org)
Language can be a time machine—we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? Ph.D. candidate Anthony Jakob investigated whether the languages of prehistoric populations left traces in Lithuanian and...
Black English Matters - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)
People who criticize African American Vernacular English don't see that it shares grammatical structures with more "prestigious" languages....
Universality and diversity in human song (www.science.org)
From love songs to lullabies, songs spanning the globe—despite their diversity—exhibit universal patterns, according to the first comprehensive scientific analysis of the similarities and differences of music across societies around the world.
Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida (kbin.social)
Crosspost from m/news
This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body (www.scientificamerican.com)
An endangered language family suggests that early humans used their bodies as a model for reality
The physics of languages (physicsworld.com)
Saw this article and thought it was pretty interesting! I've seen some articles about brownian motion and language evolution in the past, but this article brings in even more concepts
