Linguistics

China Develops Robots to Implant Chips into Human Brain A Chinese technology news website reported that the CyberSense flexible microelectrode implantation robot, developed by the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has passed the preliminary acceptance stage for Shenzhen’s major scientific infrastructure project on “Brain Mapping and Brain Simulation.” The robot is […]

최근에도 일부 신문사에서는 여전히 한자 사용을 유지하고 있다. 대부분 제목에서 인물을 지칭할 때 한자를 사용한다. 신문사의 한자 사용 이 과거보다 줄어든 것은 사실이지만, 정보 전달이 핵심인 언론사에서 가독성을 저해하는 요소를 지속적으로 유지하는 것에 대한 지적이 제기된다. 물론 인물을 지칭할 때 한자를 사용할 경우 제목의 길이를 줄여 더 간결하게 전달할 수 있다. 예를 들어 ‘윤석열 대통령 선고일은 아직’이 란 제목을 ‘尹 선고일은 아직’으로 간결하게 적을 수 있다. 그러나 한자 표기가 과도..

출처: https://www.khan.co.kr/article/202505192043035 [기고]대선 구호 ‘케이 이니셔티브’, 부적절하다이재명 더불어민주당 대선 후보의 중요 선거 구호 중 하나가 ‘케이 이니셔티브’이다. 먹고사는 ‘먹사니즘’, 행복하고 품격 있게 잘사는 ‘잘사니즘’, 그리고 이 둘을 싸안고 문화와 민주www.khan.co.kr 이건범 한글문화연대 대표가 대선 구호 '케이 이니셔티브' 말 바꾸라는 주장을 경향신문에 실었습니다. 읽어보시고 공감하면 '좋아요' 눌러주세요. 주위에도 알려주세요~ 감사합니다. 이재명 더불어민주당 대..

The Purdue Experimental Linguistics Lab is currently recruiting L1 English - advanced L2 speakers of Mandarin Chinese (min. university level 302/halfway through third-year Chinese, or equivalent) for a psycholinguistic experiment. The study consists of five computer-based tasks involving comprehension and production and compensates $15. The session will take place over Zoom (video optional), during which the experimenter will provide links to the tasks. Please see the link below for more info

The Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London is delighted to announce that our Randolph Quirk Fellow for 2025 is Professor Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Prof. Wiltschko will be visiting Queen Mary Linguistics from 19th-22nd May, and will give a series of three workshops followed by a public lecture, all in hybrid format. Workshop series: What do humans know when they use language? Workshop 1 (19th May, 2-4pm): How do children acquire knowledge of la

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College) entitled "Creativity in Taboo Terms in Sign Languages". The talk will take place online on MAY 26, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com for the Zoom link. Below you c

Grammaticality Representation in ChatGPT as Compared to Linguists and Laypeople, Zhuang Qiu, Xufeng Duan & Zhenguang G. Cai, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, no. 617 (May 6, 2025). Abstract Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various linguistic tasks. However, it remains uncertain whether LLMs have developed human-like fine-grained grammatical intuition. This […]

Jianwei Xun, the supposed philosopher behind the hypnocracy theory, does not exist and is a product of artificial intelligenceA collaboration between an essayist and two AI platforms produced a book that reflects on new forms of manipulation Raúl Limón, EL PAÍS (4/7/25) The entire proposition behind this scheme is so preposterous and diabolical that I […]

Just don’t ask it about “white genocide.”