Should we be yelling at ‘iel’?
Every year in November, France eagerly awaits the Beaujolais Nouveau and the new edition of the reference dictionary of French: Le Robert. As New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov wrote: “Beaujolais is a far...
A corpus linguist's research notebook
Every year in November, France eagerly awaits the Beaujolais Nouveau and the new edition of the reference dictionary of French: Le Robert. As New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov wrote: “Beaujolais is a far...
L’Ecole Doctorale 139 de l’Université Paris Nanterre organise un séminaire pluridisciplinaire thématique. Cette année (2020-2021), le thème imposé est “Preuves et présomptions”. Avec Sylvain Kahane, professeur en sciences du langage à l’Université Paris Nanterre,...
Since the publication of my book on corpus linguistics with R, many colleagues have asked me if I was planning to switch the whole code to the tidy style (some of the code in the book makes use of some tidyverse packages. If you want to know my answer, please read on.
What does your intuition tell you when a phenomenon is counterintuitive? It is my intuition that you cannot do good research without intuition. But, without safeguards, intuition can play tricks on you. Suppose that scientists...
From Berkeley to Paris In Spring 2002, I attended a lecture on linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky at UC Berkeley. At the time, I was working as a graduate student instructor in the...