Michael Gove, Conservative MP, serves up some curious hand gestures while speaking including teacup gestures and steeple Vulcans. Here are …
Slip of the Tongue: Brexit
The dreaded Brexit slip strikes again!
Slips of the Tongue: Repair Procedures
Slips of the tongue (speech errors) nearly always include some repair whereby the speaker realises the mistake and then attempts …
Slip of the Tongue: Borrowing from downstream
Speech errors (slips of the tongue) often ‘borrow’ from language in the mind that is downstream of the target language. …
Howzat! A hat trick of slips.
Slips of the tongue can be annoying for interviewers when they happen once. But when one error leads into another …
Slip of the Tongue: ‘exotic spresm’
Vince Cable should perhaps leave sexual innuendos to others after fluffing his lines at the Liberal Democrats’ conference on Tuesday. …
Slip of the Tongue
An interesting slip of the tongue by Theresa May at Prime Minister’s question time occurred on Wednesday and suggested that …
Slips of the Tongue
Two slips of the tongue from the BBC.
Slips of the tongue
Two slips of the tongues here, courtesy of BBC presenters.
Slip of the tongue
Slips of the tongue can be useful for understanding the psycholinguistic processing of speech output. Here is an interesting slip …
Pausing as a marker of equivocation intentions
Pausing briefly while speaking is a natural part of delivery. We pause for several reason. The most obvious one is …
The Unated Nations!
For a brief moment, the world thought that Donald Trump had renamed the United Nations when he called them the …
Ticking and Clicking
Slips of the tongue are a normal part of speech. It is very difficult for anyone to speak at length …
It’s language, stupid!
A scene in The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien has three trolls bickering and quarrelling all night until the light of …
What is a mind?
Language is the DNA of the mind. I have a mind. That I am pretty sure of. But how do …
Animal Language: Separation of a kind or degree? (part 2)
Part 1 of this article is here. Language, Communication and Thought For the linguist, the opportunity to redefine the question …
Animal Language: Separation of a kind or degree? (Part 1)
Language is one of the most precious elements we have. It is so precious that it has been the centrepiece …
The Genes of Mother Nature (Origins of Language)
If this sentence represents a theory of language evolution in the human species, then the full stop at the end …
How much does language weigh? (A thought experiment)
How much does language weigh? Can we measure its volume. The lack of answers to these fundamental questions should give us pause for thought as to its status in the universe.
Does the Andromeda Galaxy disappear after you finish reading this question?
Read the following sentence: Does the Andromeda Galaxy disappear after you finish reading this question? What is your answer? Some …