Language Log: I want to / two fish
In the comments to "slip(per)" (7/22/14), we have had a very lively discussion on whether or not people would pronounce these two sentences differently in Mandarin: wǒ yào tuōxié 我要拖鞋 "I want...
View ArticleLanguage Log: More on UM and UH
A few days ago ("Fillers: Autism, gender, and age" 7/30/2014), I noted an apparent similarity between male/female differences in UM/UH usage, and an autistic/typical difference reported in a poster...
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