2011/04/29 0:31
For instance, many languages only allow homorganic nasals in front of stops (i.e., only /mp, nt, ŋk/ and not */mk, np, ŋt/ etc.); however, in an alphabetic writing system one has to choose a symbol, such as 'n' or 'm', because there is no symbol for a nasal stop that does not have a defined place of articulation (occasionally I've...
2011/04/23 23:55
Man hører ofte, at forældre skal gentage det, deres baby siger, når den pludrer.Jeg formoder, den lingvistiske grund til dette er at hjælpe barnet med at opbygge det fonologiske system. (Jeg gik aldrig ret meget op i børnesprogstilegnelse, da jeg studerede lingvistik, så dette er gætværk fra min side.)Men hvis man er fonetiker og i stand til at gentage vilkårlige...
2011/04/30 23:37
Phyllis and I were recently discussing whether we should switch from T-Mobile to another mobile phone provider given that their signal is fairly weak here in our house.
Once we realised that we didn’t know of any provider with better coverage, Phyllis got the bright idea to google for a mobile phone mast finder, and she swiftly found this site:
Sadly, it turns out that no company has any masts nearer our house than T-Mobile, so I guess they’ll get to live a little longer.
2011/04/27 22:25
For somebody who's not colourblind, it can be a bit hard to understand how the world looks if you are.However, I've just discovered there are now sites that can help.For instance, here is the same photo of Anna processed in three different ways by Colour Blindness Simulator:From left to right, that's the original, then the way it's seen by people with protanopia, then deuteranopia, and finally tritanopia.This is of course really useful if you're designing user interfaces so that you...
2011/04/25 23:06
Jeg brugte vores nylige ferie i Keith på at læse en bog, min gamle ven Sebastian havde anbefalet: Eine exklusive Liebe af hans kusine Johanna Adorján (den engelske oversættelse hedder "An Exclusive Love”, og den danske "En ganske særlig kærlighed”); selvom forfatteren har et ungarsk navn, er født i Sverige og har dansk pas, er tysk hendes modersmål, så jeg...
2011/04/21 22:38
Last year, I was debating how to cut England into two parts in order to prevent England from dominating the UK completely. (For some bizarre reason, this idea seemed to upset a few Englishmen – just read the comments to...
2011/04/20 22:44
Driving through the Highlands, where the roads at this point in the democratic cycle are adorned with yellow election posters for the SNP and the Liberal Democrats, made me think about how the UK to a large extent has regional...
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