by Christine Kenneally BH | Jun 17, 2010 | Words
One of the first, and certainly the coolest, proto-web magazine FEED is back up.
by Christine Kenneally BH | May 27, 2010 | Bilinguals, Brain, Common sense, Evolution, Intonation, Plasticity, Words
"Rawa-dawa!" And other words. In this week's cover story at New Scientist.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Apr 7, 2008 | Books, Words
When you are searching for a word that is more precise than another though similar in meaning, you don’t browse Piozzi’s. Yet British Synonymy, the first English book of synonyms, was written by Hester Lynch Piozzi. Nor do you grab your Girard’s....
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 6, 2007 | Infants, Words
Children typically acquire a few words very slowly and then around 2 years of age undergo a ‘word explosion.’ A cognitive scientist at the University of Iowa has built a mathematical model which suggests that this amazing phenomenon is not genetically...
