Category: Food
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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..
(more)
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)
When working with languages, it is important to keep in mind
the context in which they exist. While “context” has many
different facets, a primary aspect is geography. Geographical
(and topographi..
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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 recently attended the annual conference of the Society for
the Science of Motivation (SSM) in Barcelona. Joyce was
presenting a paper about our recent work automating
subcategory coding for implicit..
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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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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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2014
Signs on a protest barrier. Protest at Central. Hong Kong
street. After the Philippines I spent a couple of days in
Singapore to relax, and the next stop was Hong Kong. My friend
Matt and I had the of..
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2013
I’ve been reflecting a bit on this season, which comes around
once a year. As I write this, I’m really enjoying the holiday
podcast from Under the Radar, which features some excellent
music for the we..
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I’ve been in Australia (affectionately known by locals as Oz
or ’stralia) for almost 3 weeks, and so far it’s been
fabulous. People are friendly, food is good and I’ve already
seen 2 incredible firewo..
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