"FrameNet" is a Berkeley research project on “semantic frames” that give words meaning. #linguistics
on 02026-06-12Review of Laura Spinney’s Proto about the history of the Indo-European language family. #toread #linguistics #history
on 02025-12-12#Pullum thoroughly explains the #English #passive-voice. #linguistics
on 02025-07-20Geoff #Pullum recorded a #video series on the #English #passive-voice. #linguistics
on 02025-07-20#Polynesian #linguistics: Austronesian is not Indo-European, so “Agni”/“afi” doesn’t indicate a common linguistic origin.
on 02025-06-13“English intransitive verbs that become causatives when used transitively” #linguistics
on 02017-07-01#linguistics and meter: “shitgibbon” fits the metrical scheme of “wankpuffin”, “cockwomble”, “fucktrumpet”, “dickbiscuit”, “twatwaffle”, “turdweasel”, “cuntpuffin”, “spunkpuffin”, “shitpuffin”; “fuckwomble”, “twatwomble”; “jizztrumpet”, “spunktrumpet”; “shitbiscuit”, “arsebiscuits”, “douchebiscuit”; “douchewaffle”, “cockwaffle”, “fartwaffle”, “cuntwaffle”, “shitwaffle”, “crapweasel”, “fuckweasel”, “pissweasel”, and “doucheweasel”, but not “bunglecunt” and “shitehawk”. “Monosyllabic expletive + trochee”. #Trump
on 02017-03-11Praat is a GPL #phonetics analysis system; eSpeak #speech-synthesis is based on it. #linguistics
on 02016-07-21how to do #sentiment-analysis for Twitter in Python with NLTK (from 2012) #linguistics
on 02016-07-21how to do #sentiment-analysis for Twitter in Python (from 2009 when that was the hot thing) #linguistics
on 02016-07-21Norvig rebuts Chomsky’s dismissal of statistical #linguistics
on 02016-06-22Victoria M. habla de la parsimonia en la #linguistics.
on 02016-01-17