On site and remote, serious and friendly · Surloke kaj distance, serioze kaj amike
Here is a report on the interlinguistics session held this September, partly at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland and partly online. Jen raporto pri la interlingvistika sesio okazinta parte en la Universitato Adam Mickiewicz en Poznano (Pollando) kaj...Public-Speaking Competition · Oratora Konkurso
As part of Esperanto’s 3rd Virtual Congress there will be a Public-Speaking Competition, open to congress members of up to 35 years of age. Participants will speak in Esperanto for a maximum of ten minutes on one of the following topics: “When an Indigenous language...3rd Virtual Congress and Retoso · 3-a Virtuala Kongreso kaj Retoso
Suggest items for Esperanto’s 3rd Virtual Congress (VK), to be held from 24 to 27 November 2022 alongside Retoso, the online event of the World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO). Proposals for talks, panels, debates, author appearances, artistic and cultural...Thinking with your hands · Pensado per la manoj
Demonstration of embodied cognition mechanisms in the brain could have implications for artificial intelligence. In a recent study, scientists observed how the brain responds to words representing objects that can be manipulated by hand, when a participant’s...AI learns human language patterns · AI lernas homlingvajn strukturojn
On its own, a new machine-learning model can discover linguistic rules that often match up with those created by human experts. Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech...Watch Your Language · Atentu vian lingvon
A recent article by Steven Mintz, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, examines how language became a key cultural, ideological and political battleground: “Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown:...Shakespeare myths · Ŝekspiraj mitoj
A short online article discusses five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language. Mallonga anglalingva artikolo diskutas kvin mitojn pri la kontribuoj de Ŝekspiro al tiu lingvo.Babies and contrastive sounds · Beboj kaj kontrastaj sonoj
A recent study sheds light on how babies learn to distinguish contrastive sounds (big, pig) in their own language while rapidly losing the ability to distinguish the contrastive sounds of other languages. Building on their previous research, the authors suggest that...Conference on education, literature and language · Konferenco pri edukado, literaturo kaj lingvo
The London Institute of Skills Development is hosting the Applied Research International Conference on Education, Literature and Language at Cambridge University, UK from November 3rd to 5th this year. This is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, consultants,...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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