New book examines language loss among multilingual speakers

Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language ...
JSTOR Daily

Review: Logic, Language, and Grammar in Early China

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In examining what he calls the "logical features" and "logical concepts" of the Classical Chinese language Christoph Harbsmeier has shown in ...
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Predicate Logic with Flexibly Binding Operators and Natural Language Semantics

A new formalism for predicate logic is introduced, with a non-standard method of binding variables, which allows a compositional formalization of certain anaphoric constructions, including 'donkey ...
ZDNet

This is what happens to your brain when you read computer code

Programmers might need to 'read' code in programming languages, but it's not the language-processing part of the brain where blood flow increases during the activity. Instead, a group of MIT ...
Ars Technica

Getting to QED, Part 1: Informal logic and online argumentation

For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site's identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious ...