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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jan 10
- 1 min
Strictly Not Linguistics?
When did Linguistics fall out of favour with Languages? Or why did Languages want nothing to to with Linguistics until well into the 80s...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Dec 27, 2021
- 1 min
Fire fox burning bright
Scandy legend turns the aurora borealis into a "fire fox". Fox fire in Japan, with fox spirits and magical foxes thrown in....
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
How to be an alien (with apologies to Mikes)
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer provides good examples of British understatements and how they would be misunderstood by a Dutch person....
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Apr 8, 2021
- 1 min
Bad Romance
Some thoughts about "defective" verbs and other fossils. Andarsene. Word has it that "sene" became a fixed form, attached to "andar" and...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Oct 7, 2020
- 1 min
A De-caffed MLAT (te)
For those who have to do the MLAT test at Oxbridge, I find it very odd that you don't want to do morphology and linguistics (and...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
Universal prohibitions in feature geometry. OT is OTT
I have been doing OT through lock-down basing my studies on this book, A course in Phonology - 1999. I have the following problem: in p....
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Mar 17, 2020
- 1 min
Social climbing in Clitic Climbing ?
Descartes, 1635 ... avant qu'on le puisse voir imprimé ... Notice that clitic climbing WAS allowed in French in 1635. Being contemporary...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jan 5, 2020
- 1 min
Monkey noises
If only we could make communicative monkey noises like Dame Jane Woodall does in her video.
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Nov 23, 2019
- 1 min
The mysterious case of the "racist" unflattened diphthong
"Corbyn made Epstein sound more Jewish" says Metro (21.11.19) by pronouncing his name "epsh-tine" and not "ep-steen". An English comedian...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Nov 8, 2019
- 1 min
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
Reclaiming your ancestry via your "family name". All European names had their ancestry in some skill or chore. Most Europeans were...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Nothomb's Acide Sulfurique
A mixture of Jo Brand and The Hungry Games. To end a "Big Brother" game called Concentration with "un cocktail Molotov une m'elange...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jun 12, 2019
- 1 min
A case of intrusive [k] ?
Oh, Jeremy (H)unt ! It's more a case of Victoria Fromkin than Victoria Derbyshire these days. Why is the four-letter slip happening ?...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jun 12, 2019
- 1 min
The very Greek case of the Verb being the only Predicate
As coming to a university near you: the new "theory" in which only the verb is the predicate (move over Plato). More thoughts on this...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jun 12, 2019
- 1 min
Throw lemons in the river until it turns gold
Verde que te quiero verde. More Lorca soon.
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Emilce Rees
- May 4, 2019
- 1 min
Minestrone Linguistics
Lecturers are mixing and not always matching theories and perceptions, proper orthodox syntax with bits of pragmatics and things that...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jan 26, 2019
- 1 min
Oranges are the only fruit at some universities
While some students think that scaffolding is what you have to contend with in our personal Gotham, others are doing excellent work in...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Nov 5, 2018
- 1 min
Killing kittens (or vegans)
At UCL, when I asked whether I could mix generative grammar with sociolinguistics, one of my supervisors said that sociolinguists should...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Sep 18, 2018
- 1 min
Hinge and Bracket
Phonetics Students: square brackets for PHONETIC transcriptions. Forward slashes for PHONEMIC transcriptions - I heard you say. But !...
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Emilce Rees
- Aug 19, 2018
- 1 min
TUTOR PAGES SITE HAS CHANGED OWNER WITHOUT NOTIFYING THE TUTORS
PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE NEVER AGREED TO HAVE MY DATA MIGRATED TO THE NEW OWNERS OF THE TUTOR PAGES' SITE (IF THIS IS PERMANENT). THIS HAS...
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