Earlier this month, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain held a very interesting conference, in Ipswich. From my perspective, there were two particularly interesting papers…
When I was eight or so, long before I could read, I remember asking myself once why my parents said DROING ROOM when there was…
I recently gave a paper at the Changing Foundaries conference, updating my 2022 paper in significant ways. The evolution of speech and language is crucially…
Does your child say key as TEA? Speech and language therapists call this ‘fronting’ because T is said with the tongue tip and K with the…
There is a perennial question: What do animals understand?
The death of author and illustrator Raymond Briggs last Wednesday is a sad day for children’s literature. A bright light has gone out.
In the last four years I have had three episodes of septicaemia. On two of these I passed out before getting to hospital. My wife…
I have just spent three days at a fascinating conference on biolinguistics, as the field now describes itself.