Category: Fieldwork
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2026
As part of the “Food of the World” segment in my “Languages of
the World” course at NTU Singapore, I’ve been cooking food
from a region of the world that we discuss, so students get an
idea of pos..
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As part of the “Food of the World” segment in my “Languages of
the World” course at NTU Singapore, I have been cooking food
from the part of the world we’re discussing that week. The
goal is to gi..
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As part of the “Food of the World” segment in my “Languages of
the World” course at NTU Singapore, I cook food from a region
of the world that we’re discussing in that week, so that
students can g..
(more)
This week’s post is a recipe from Europe. As part of the “Food
of the World” segment in my “Languages of the World” course at
NTU Singapore, I cook food from a linguistic group represented
in that wee..
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I’ve been on holiday and so missed posting a blog for last
week, but this week I again have a post about food. As part of
the “Food of the World” segment in my “Languages of the World”
course at N..
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This week’s post is a recipe from the insular south-east Asian
region of the world. As part of the “Food of the World”
segment in my “Languages of the World” course at NTU
Singapore, I cook food f..
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As part of my series on “Food of the World”, I’ve been writing
up the recipes for food I cook for my “Languages of the World”
course at NTU Singapore. It’s a course that gives an overview
of world..
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It’s that time of the semester where I’m in the throes of
assessing student work for classes and trying to submit
grades. One of my tasks has recently involved NLP projects
related to the *taggedP..
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As part of my series on “Food of the World”, I’ve been writing
up the recipes for food I cook for my “Languages of the World”
course at NTU Singapore. It’s a course that gives an overview
of world..
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As I noted in a previous post, food is part and parcel of any
fieldwork experience. My “Languages of the World” course at
NTU Singapore gives an overview of world languages,
highlighting theories ..
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The diversity of the world’s languages is driven by a number
of factors that are still not well understood. However, there
is clearly some influence from environment and other kinds of
context. When..
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Most of my fieldwork research on minority languages has been
conducted within the Austroasiatic (AA) family. This is a
group of languages spoken by diverse peoples across South
& Southeast Asia, and w..
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2018
I just returned from fieldwork in Myanmar, where we spent
several days training staff and students at two different
universities (Mandalay University and Yangon University of
Foreign Languages) in fie..
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2017
I have been quite lax with posting here mainly because I have
been working very hard on a difficult problem. My current job
involves (among other things) trying to automate a
psychological coding syst..
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One of the concerns that has occupied my mind for that past
few years is the question of data accessibility in the field
of Linguistics. I am happy to announce that the data that
underpins my grammati..
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This is the fourth installment in a series of blog posts where
I discuss some of the tools I use for linguistic analysis. In
a previous post I described the tools I use for processing and
converting v..
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When you discuss doing language documentation and description,
one of the first things to know is that you have to collect
language data. The primary source of language data is people
who speak the la..
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2015
The last year has been quite busy - I completed my PhD, got
hired on a 1-year contract as a postdoctoral Research Fellow,
and have since returned to India and done many other things.
Needless to say, ..
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2013
I’ve been in Bangkok for the last few days, attending the
SouthEast Asian Linguistics Society conference here at
Chulalongkorn University. The campus is in the center of
Bangkok and rather easy to get..
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