Learn Welsh

Posted on 30 June 2010 by Lise

Say Something in Welsh A free online language course for Welsh learners. It looks really good! Here’s the link: Say Something in Welsh
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innit

Posted on 30 June 2010 by Lise

Voices of the UK – They’ve gone and put it in the Oxford English Dictionary, innit. This is a nice discussion of i(s)n(‘t) it and how it is now “included in the September 2009 online update of the Oxford English Dictionary”. innit
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Cardiff Keystroke Project

Posted on 15 June 2010 by Lise

I have been wanting to do research looking at actual keystrokes in spontaneous language production for several years. I was blocked by IT security issues until last year when I discovered InputLog, a tool developed by researchers for researchers that that logs keyboard and mouse input. Over this academic year (2009 – 2010), I have
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Light a tote bag

Posted on 15 June 2010 by Lise

Insights into electronic language production through keystroke logging This paper reports on one aspect of our Keystroke Project, namely, repairs and pauses in spontaneous, personal electronic language production found, for example, in e-mails, chatrooms and Facebook. The data used in this study were collected through the computer logging software ‘Inputlog’ (Leijten and Van Waes, 2006).
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the LinC Wordle

Posted on 14 June 2010 by Lise

This is pretty cool! It’s the word cloud created by Wordle for the LinC blog. The more prominent a word is the more frequent it is in the blog.
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