Hello, dear long-lost readers! So much for my ambitious 2024 goal of posting 2-4 times per month. Half-way through last year my life went into overdrive, and it’s been Linguamonium hiatus ever since. (This “overdrive” consisted of, in the space of a few months: getting a new job, moving twice within 30 days, buying our…
Tag: first language acquisition
Perusal through the material on this blog will quickly show that my interests trend towards words and language acquisition. This post combines the two topics: the first section has some interesting morsels on word learning from a book (that I’m reading) by Yale psychologist Paul Bloom, called How children learn the meanings of words; the…
Why, hello there! It’s been ages since I’ve posted, but I’ve been pretty busy with a tiny new experiment. Ryden was born in October (the photo was taken at not-quite-two-months) and is now emphatically ingesting solids, crawling (but only backwards), and beginning to babble. Now that my life has gone from hallucinatorily topsy-turvy to relatively…