
Discovery Dispatch
Honest aliens and yet another attempt at Proto-Australian
An analysis of the linguistics of The Three-Body Problem, and new research claiming to reconstruct Proto-Australian.
Hi! I'm Danny! 👋🏼 I am a linguist. 🗣️ I work to document and revitalize endangered languages, while studying the crosslinguistic patterns we see across the world’s languages.
Discovery Dispatch
An analysis of the linguistics of The Three-Body Problem, and new research claiming to reconstruct Proto-Australian.
World of Words
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Discovery Dispatch is a weekly roundup of the latest language-related news, research in linguistics, interesting reads from the week, and newest books and media!
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William Labov was the father of sociolinguistics who pioneered the study of dialectology.
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Why an apostrophe might determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
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Here are 3 things people get wrong about language.
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