Stories from the Field

Good linguistics - research and analysis - has implications for Language Development in various ways. The stories here show some of the ways in which this is plays itself out, from language learning to translation to orthography development.

Reading from memory?

Too few or too many accents

A very unnatural word order

Five vowels or more?

Permission to steal

It became a real language

She herself said to him himself...

"Nothing is happening here!"

Conservative and progressive women