IKIKO 2022
The International Congress of Intercultural Communication (IKIKO), a virtual world gathering of local/national meetings, will take place from 8 to 12 November 2022. The topic is intercultural communication, with the aim of collecting ideas and showing non-Esperantists...“Women” and men · “Women” kaj viroj
A recent article from the New York Times explains the curious history of the words female and woman, which are not derived from male and man (at least not in its modern sense). Girl and lady are also discussed. Lastatempa artikolo el New York Times klarigas la...The language of happiness · La lingvaĵo de feliĉo
This article in Nature examines the vocabulary used in descriptions of happiness and reveals that positive lexical items play only a limited role in such reports. It also shows that compact lexical families accurately reflect a semantic categorisation of sources of...Plurilingual parenting · Plurlingva gepatreco
Linguists have long paid attention to the idea of bilingual parenting, but a new appreciation of linguistic and cultural complexity has brought about an alternative approach. This short article explains how what experts call “plurilingualism” views language use as...Genetic linguistics tracks human migration · Genetika lingvoscienco spuras homan migradon
By applying methods from population genetics – but using linguistic data rather than genes – scientists at the École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have produced a series of maps showing historical migration events, including the migration of mountain farmers...Rapid phonemic learning in the first hours of life · Rapida fonema lernado en la unuaj vivhoroj
Human neonates can discriminate phonemes, but the neural mechanism underlying this ability is poorly understood. This recent article in the scientific journal Nature shows that the neonatal brain can learn to discriminate natural vowels from backward vowels, a...Trade-off between complex words and complex grammar · Kompromiso inter kompleksaj vortoj kaj kompleksa gramatiko
According to a new study of patients with primary progressive aphasia, people who have difficulty producing complex words compensate by stringing together a sequence of simpler words to convey the idea they wish to express. Laŭ nova studo pri pacientoj kun fruastadia...AILA Congress 2023 · AILA-Kongreso 2023
Lyon, France will, from the 17th to 21th of July 2023, play host to the 20th World Congress of AILA (the International Association of Applied Linguistics) with the theme of “Diversity and social cohesion in a globalized world: towards more committed language...Online CEFR exams off to a good start · Sukcese debutis la retaj KER-ekzamenoj
For the first six months of thus year Katalin Kováts, head of the KER-Ekzamena Centro, and her team were busy relaunching UEA’s examination system, testing the new C2 level, laying the technical foundations for online examination, and organizing the first online...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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