Hello! I’d like to share the second recording of my “Ryden audio timelapse” endeavor. For an intro to the project, see the first post here. Because I am deep in newborn challenge-land with my second son, this post will be very short; I’ll again save my observations for a hopefully-near-future piece (to be written when…
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…
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…
