In an article published this March in the online journal PloS ONE, a group of researchers have shown that adults learning a foreign language...

A paper published by two Japanese researchers last week has been making some noise among both language-people and tech-people recently. Alt...

"Remember, my son, keep your Arbor Vitae away from Miss. Laycock" To prove that a fascination with slang and vulgarity predate...

Hmmm, (Blows virtual dust off blog) I guess it has been a while since I updated here. The good news is that several new projects have arisen...

These days it is difficult to not know something about the Middle East. Even my old roommate Dass knows where Iraq is (to be fair, he was se...

A collection of chapters analyzing the relationship between the English and Japanese in the context of contemporary Japan, Stanlaw's ...

Zanzibar. "Swahili" comes from the Arabic word for coast My first linguistics teacher used to complain about how the terms “se...