The Linguistic Big Freeze—John Tipler and Frank J. Barrow SpecGram Vol CLIX, No 4 Contents The Dictionary Code—Bryan Allen
Further Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
(because they aren’t actually true)

gathered at great personal risk of
psycholinguistic harm from actual student papers

by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira

This ninth collection of students’ pearls of wisdom, laboriously digitised from hand-written papers, demonstrates once again how students new to the study of language speculate about grammar after having imperfectly absorbed what their teachers think they have taught them.

On language contact and language variation

On word meanings and figurative language

More to come...

The Linguistic Big FreezeJohn Tipler and Frank J. Barrow
The Dictionary CodeBryan Allen
SpecGram Vol CLIX, No 4 Contents