Content tagged with “linguistics” under “The Interesting List”

“ A specialized branch of crime investigation using writing patterns to solve crimes. ”

“ There is a sentence that uses every phonetic sound which differences between British and American English. Hugh Jackson says it before each take in which he has to play an American. ”

“ There’s a standard body of text which is used by linguists and speech pathologists to assess and compare accents when read out loud. ”

“ This is an official term for ‘the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans.’ ”

“ Newspaper headlines have informal language conventions called ‘headlinese’ that constitute a new and different dialect. ”