16 APR 2024 · Questo episodio esplora l'ipotesi di Sapir-Whorf e la relatività linguistica, concentrandosi sul modo in cui le lingue possono influenzare la nostra percezione e comprensione del mondo. Oggi parliamo della storia del legame tra lingua e pensiero, esaminando come la struttura linguistica possa plasmare la nostra cognizione e la nostra relazione con la realtà circostante, e vediamo sopratutto cosa ci dicono i dati sperimentali. Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io FONTI: - Barsalou, L. (2008). Grounded cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 617–645. - Belacchi, C., & Cubelli, R. (2012). Implicit knowledge of grammatical gender in preschool children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 41:295–310. - Berlin, B. & Kay, P. (1969). Basic color terms: Their universality and evolution. Berkeley: University of California Press. - Boas, Franz (1889). 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16 MAR 2024 · Questo episodio esplora le lingue in modalità visivo-gestuale, smontando alcune credenze diffuse che potrebbero portarci a fraintendere la vera natura delle lingue segnate. Durante la puntata, esamineremo da vicino alcune caratteristiche generali e alcune peculiari della LIS, la lingua dei segni italiana, al fine di evidenziare che le lingue dei segni hanno strutture proprie, completamente diverse dalle lingue parlate. È fondamentale comprendere, infatti, che le lingue dei segni sono sistemi linguistici autonomi, che pur nella loro unicità condividono comunque affascinanti fenomeni evolutivi con tutte le altre lingue del mondo, indipendentemente dalla loro modalità. Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io FONTI: - Cardinaletti, A., & Repetti, L. (2008). Vocali epentetiche nella morfologia dell’italiano e dei dialetti italiani. In R. Maschi, N. Pennello, & P. Rizzolati (Eds.), Miscellanea di studi linguistici offerti a Laura Vanelli da amici e allievi padovani. Udine: Forum Editrice. 24. - Cecchetto, C., Geraci, C. & Zucchi, S. (2006). Strategies of relativization in Italian Sign Language. Nat Language Linguistic Theory 24:945–975. - Corbett, G. (2000). Number. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 26–30 - Corina, D., & Singleton, J. (2009). Developmental social cognitive neuroscience: Insights from deafness. Child Development, 80(4), 952–967. - Dye, M.W.G., Hauser, P. C., & Bavelier, D. (2009). Is Visual Selective Attention in Deaf Individuals Enhanced or Deficient? The Case of the Useful Field of View. PLOS ONE, 4(5), e5640 - Eberhard, D.M., Simons, G.F., & Fennig, C.D. (Eds.). (2023). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-sixth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version. - Figueras, B., Edwards, L., & Langdon, D. (2008). Executive Function and Language in Deaf Children. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 13(3), 362–377. - Fontana, S., Corazza, S., Braem, P.B., & Volterra, V. (2017). Language Research and Language Community Change: Italian Sign Language, 1981–2013. Sign Language Studies, 17(3):363–398. - Geraci, C. (2012). Language Policy and Planning: The Case of Italian Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 12(4):494-518 - Kegl, J., & Iwata, G. (1989). Lenguaje de Signos Nicaragüense: A pidgin sheds light on the “creole?” ASL. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene: University of Oregon. - Nuckolls, J.B. (1999). The Case for Sound Symbolism. Annual Review of Anthropology, 28:225-252. - Ortega, G. (2017). Iconicity and sign lexical acquisition: A review. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 1280. - Perniss, P., Pfau, R. & Steinbach, M. (2017). Can’t you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure. In P. Perniss, R. Pfau & M. Steinbach (Eds.). Visible variation: cross-linguistic studies on sign language structure (pp. 1-34). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter - Perniss, P., & Vigliocco, G. (2014). The bridge of iconicity: From a world of experience to the experience of language. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 369, 20130300. - Petitta, G. (2012). Sordo, sordomuto, non udente nella stampa italiana contemporanea. Bollettino di Italianistica 2:171–183. - Pinker, S. (1994). The Language instinct: how the mind creates language. London: Harper Perennial. - Sandler W., & Lillo-Martin D. (2006). Sign Language and linguistic universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - Senghas, A. (1994a). Nicaragua’s lessons for language acquisition. Signpost: The Journal of the International Sign Linguistics Association, 7:1. - Senghas, A. (1994b). The development of Nicaraguan Sign Language via the language acquisition process. In D. MacLaughlin & S. McEwen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 19 (pp. 543-552). Boston: Cascadilla Press. - Senghas, A., Kegl, J., Senghas, R.J., & Coppola, M.E.V. (1994). Sign language emergence and sign language change: children's contribution to the birth of a language. Boston, Massachusetts: Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the Linguistic Society of America. - Volterra, V. (Ed.). (1981). I segni come parole: La comunicazione dei sordi. Turin: Boringhieri. - Volterra, V. (Ed.). (1987). La lingua dei segni italiana: La comunicazione visivogestuale dei sordi. Bologna: Il Mulino.

16 FEB 2024 · Qui esploriamo il generativismo, la teoria sviluppata da Noam Chomsky negli anni '50 che ha rivoluzionato la nostra comprensione del linguaggio. Affronteremo insieme questioni come la natura innata della lingua, affrontando la smentita del comportamentismo linguistico e introducendo concetti come "grammatica universale" e "competenza". Attraverso aneddoti e spiegazioni, esploriamo la storia, l'evoluzione e le critiche del generativismo, mettendo in luce come questa teoria continui a influenzare la linguistica moderna. Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io FONTI: - Chomsky, N. (1959). Review of B. F. Skinner Verbal Behavior. Language, 35:26–58. - Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton. - Chomsky, N. (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. - Chomsky, N.(1995). The Minimalist Program, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. - Chomsky, N., Belletti, A., & Rizzi, L. (2001). Chapter 4: An interview on minimalism. In N. Chomsky (Ed.) On Nature and Language. Cambridge University Press. pp. 92–161. - Culicover, P.W., & R.Jackendoff (2005), Simpler syntax. Oxford University Press. - Deacon, T.W. (1997). The symbolic species: the co-evolution of language and the human brain. London: Penguin. - Elsabbagh, M., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2006). Modularity of mind and language. In K. Brown (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. (pp. 218-224). IInd Ed. Oxford: Elsevier. - Kluender, R., & Kutas, M. (1993). Subjacency as a processing phenomenon. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8 (4): 573–633. - Koehn, Philipp (2020). Neural Machine Translation. Cambridge University Press. - Kuhn T (1962). The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. - Landau, B. (1997). Language and experience in blind children: retrospective and prospective. In V. Lewis & G.M.Collis (Eds), Blindness and psychological development in young children. The British Psychological Society. - Lepschy, G. (1979). Generativismo. Treccani Enciclopedia Italiana - IV Appendice. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/grammatica-generativa_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/ - Moro, A. (2013). The Equilibrium of Human Syntax: Symmetries in the Brain. Routledge. - Moro A. (2015). I confini di Babele. Il cervello e il mistero delle lingue impossibili. Bologna: Il Mulino. - Pinker, S., & Jackendoff, R. (2005). The faculty of language: What's special about it? Cognition, 95(2):201–236. - Skinner, B. (1957). Verbal Behaviour. New York: Appleton Crofts. - Skinner, B. (1974). About behaviorism. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. - Schwarz-Friesel, M. (2012). On the status of external evidence in the theories of cognitive linguistics. Language Science, 34(6):656–664. - Tomasello, M. (2003). Constructing a language: a usage-based theory of language acquisition. Harvard University Press.

16 JAN 2024 · Oggi ci immergiamo nel vibrante mondo delle parolacce, esplorando il loro impatto sulla società e la mente umana. Dalla loro origine evolutiva al loro ruolo nella nostra psicofisicità vediamo come le parolacce siano molto più di semplici espressioni volgari. Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io FONTI: - https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/parolaccia/ - Indian Penal Code. indiacode.nic.in. 1 May 1861. - The Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation, 20:1. - Summary Offences Act 1981 No. 113 (as of 01 March 2017), Public Act – New Zealand Legislation - Bergen, B.K. (2016). What the F: What swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves. New York: Basic Books - Code, C. (2005). First in, last out? The evolution of aphasic lexical speech automatisms to agrammatism and the evolution of human communication. Interaction Studies, 6:311–334. - Code, C. (2011). Nonfluent aphasia and the evolution of proto-language. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 24:136–144. - Deacon, T.W. (2009). The Evolution of Language Systems in the Human Brain. Berkeley, CA: Elsevier, University of California. - Diamond A. (2012). Activities and Programs That Improve Children's Executive Functions. Current directions in psychological science, 21(5):335–341. - Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). Broken hearts and broken bones: A neural perspective on the similarities between social and physical pain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21:42–47. - Fuster, J. M. (2002). Frontal lobe and cognitive development. Journal of Neurocytology, 31(3-5):373–385. - Jackson, H.J. (1884). Evolution and dissolution of the nervous system. In J. Taylor (Ed.). Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson, 11. London: Staples Press. - Jay, T.B. (2009). The utility and ubiquity of taboo words. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4:153-161. - Jay, T.B, & Janschewitz, K. (2012). The science of swearing. Observer, 25(5), Association for Psychological Science. - Jay, T.B., King, K. & Duncan, T. (2006). Memories of Punishment for Cursing. Sex Roles 55:123–133. - Methven, E. (2018). A Little Respect: Swearing, Police and Criminal Justice Discourse. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 7(3):58–74. - Mohr, M. (2013). Holy shit: A brief history of swearing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Montagu, A. (1967). The Anatomy of Swearing. New York: Macmillan. - Pinker, S. (2007) The Stuff of Thought. New York: Viking Press. - Progovac, L. & Benítez-Burraco, A. (2019). From Physical Aggression to Verbal Behavior: Language Evolution and Self-Domestication Feedback Loop. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:471-683. - Robertson O.S., Robinson S.J., Stephens R. (2017). A cross-cultural comparison of the effects of swearing on pain perception in a British and Japanese population. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 17(10):267–272. - Savage, S. D. (2016). What not to swear: how do children learn bad words? Doctoral dissertation, University of Alabama Libraries. - Singer, H.S. (2005). Tourette's syndrome: from behaviour to biology., in Lancet Neurology, 4(3):149-59. - Stapleton, K. (2010). Swearing. In M.A. Locher, & S.L. Graham (Eds.), Interpersonal Pragmatics (Handbooks of Pragmatics 6) (289-306). - Stephens, R., Atkins, J., & Kingston, A. (2009). Swearing as a response to pain. Neuroreport, 20(12):1056-1060. - Stephens R., Robertson O. S. (2020). Swearing as a response to pain: Assessing hypoalgesic effects of novel “swear” words. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 723. - Van Lancker, D., & Cummings, J.L. (1999). Expletives: neurolinguistic and neurobehavioral perspectives on swearing. Brain Research Reviews, 31:83–104. - Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M., Bylsma, L.M., & De Vlam, C. (2013). Swearing: A biopsychosocial perspective. Psychological Topics, 22(2), 287–304.

16 DEC 2023 · Formalismo e funzionalismo, pensiero ed esternalizzazione, lingua e comunicazione. Che casino! Oggi proviamo a vedere che serve un po’ di ordine se vogliamo quantomeno isolare i concetti. E nonostante lingua e comunicazione a volte siano usate come sinonimi, non sono assolutamente la stessa cosa. Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io FONTI: - Baron-Cohen, S. (1999). The evolution of a theory of mind. In M.C. Corballis & S.E.G. Lea (Eds.), The descent of mind: Psychological perspectives on hominid evolution (261–277). Oxford University Press. - Boeckx C., Benítez-Burraco A. (2014). The shape of the human language-ready brain. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:282. - Chomsky, N. (1972). Language and mind. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. - de Boer, B. (2017). Evolution of speech and evolution of language. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24:158–162. - Fodor, J. A. (1975). The Language of Thought. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. - Fodor, J. A., Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2015). Minds Without Meaning: An Essay on the Content of Concepts. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. - Grice, Paul (1975). Logic and conversation. In P. Cole, J. Morgan (Eds.). Syntax and semantics. Vol. 3: Speech acts. New York: Academic Press (41–58). - Hauser, M. D., Chomsky, N., & Fitch, W. T. (2002). The faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science, 298(5598):1569–1579. - Hinzen W. (2013). Narrow syntax and the language of thought. Philosophical Psychology, 26:1–23. - Jacob, F. (1982) The possible and the actual. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. - Johansson, S (2005). Origins of language – constraints on hypotheses. Amsterdam: Benjamins. - Lieberman P. (2016). The evolution of language and thought. Journal of anthropological sciences, 94:127–146. - Millikan R. G. (2013). Natural information, intentional signs and animal communication. In U.E. Stegmann (Ed.) Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (3316–3603). - Newmeyer , F.J. (2010). Formalism and functionalism in linguistics. Cognitive Science, 1(3), 301–307. - Ockham, G. (1323) Summa logicae. - Parker, G. A., & Maynard Smith, J. (1990). Optimality theory in evolutionary biology. Nature, 348:27–33. - Pinker, S. (1999). Words and rules. London: Phoenix. - Reboul, A. C. (2015). Why language really is not a communication system: A cognitive view of language evolution. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Art. 1434.

16 NOV 2023 · Per imporre una lingua, e conseguentemente una cultura, una politica, etc. non serve necessariamente bandire le lingue preesistenti, si può giocare su quello che definiamo qui 'imperialismo linguistico', con piccoli ostacoli e scelte che indeboliscono la lingua autoctona in favore della lingua colonizzatrice. In questa puntata vediamo la situazione dell'arabo di Palestina, come è stata in passato, come è adesso, e come si pensa sarà in futuro (spoiler: brutta). La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna L’audio in arabo palestinese è tratto dal canale YouTube ILoveLanguages! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06_STuBV4Dg&t=44s FONTI: - AA.VV. Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 22(1):129-138. - Al-Husari, S. (1961). Arabism first. Beirut: Dar Al-‘ilm Lil-malayin. - Al-Jallad, A. (2018). The Earliest Stages of Arabic and its Linguistic Classification. In E. Benmamoun, & R. Bassiouney (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics:315-331. Routledge. - Alon, S. (2019). No One to See Here: Genres of Neutralization and the Ongoing Nakba. Arab Studies Journal. Georgetown University. 27(1):91–117. - Al‐Wer, E.; Jong, R. (2017). Dialects of Arabic. In C. Boberg; J. Nerbonne; D. Watt (Eds.). The Handbook of Dialectology:523–534. Wiley. - Amara, M.H. (2003). Recent foreign language education policies in Palestine. Language Problems and Language Planning, 27(3):217-232. - Amara, M. (2017). Arabic in Israel: Language, Identity and Conflict (1st ed.). Routledge. - Amara, M. & Mar’i, A. (2006) Language Education Policy: The Arab minority in Israel. Netherlands: Springer. - Azaryahu, M. (2000). Hebrew and Hebraicization in the Formation of Cultural Identity. Jewish Studies 40:77-88. - Azaryahu, M. & Golan, A. (2001). (Re)naming the landscape: The formation of the Hebrew map of Israel 1949–1960. Journal of Historical Geography. 27(2):178–195. - Baumel, Y. (2007). A blue and white shadow: The Israeli establishment’s policy and actions among its Arab citizens – the formative years 1958–1968. Haifa: Pardes. - Bekerman, Z. & Maoz, I. (2005). Trouble with identity: Obstacles to coexistence education in conflict ridden societies. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 5(4):341–357. - Brustad, K. & Zuniga, E. (2019). Chapter 16: Levantine Arabic. In J. Huehnergard & N. Pat-El (Eds.). The Semitic Languages 2nd ed.:403–432. Routledge. - Giles, H., Bourhis, R.Y. & Taylor, D.M. (1977). Towards a theory of language in ethnic group relations. In H. Giles (Ed.), Language, ethnicity and ingroup relations:307–348. London: Academic Press - Grossman, D. (1992). Present and absentees. Hakibutz Hame’ohad. - Har-Shav, B. (1993). Language in time of revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press. Jabareen, Y.T. (2015). The Arab-Palestinian community in Israel: A test case for collective rights under international law. The George Washington International Law Review, 47:449–480. - Sa’di, A.H. (2002). Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity. Israel Studies. 7(2):175–198. - Shammas, A. (1995). The next morning: The Palestinians and the rest of the longing heart. In E. Rekhess & T. Tagnes (Eds.), Arab politics in Israel on crossroads:19–31. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Moshe Dayyan Centre for Middle East and Africa. - Shohamy, E. (1999). Language and identity of Jews in Israel and in the diaspora. In D. Zisenwine and D. Schers (Eds.), Present and future: Jewish culture, identity and language:79–100. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, School of Education.

16 OCT 2023 · Come si costruiscono delle lingue artificiali (conlangs) a fini artistici? In questo episodio vediamo alcune scelte molto diverse da loro, parlando di autori che hanno creato degli interi mondi linguistici al puro scopo di affascinare e intrattenere i fruitori dei prodotti artistici di cui queste lingue fanno parte. La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna FONTI: - Adams, M. (2011). From Elvish to Klingon: exploring invented languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Barnes, L.; van Heerden, C. (2008). Virtual Languages in Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Language Matters, 37:102–117. - Cheyne, R. (2008). Created Languages in Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies, 35(3):386-403. - Ćwiek, A.; Fuchs, S.; Draxler, C.; Asu, E.L.; Dediu, D.; Hiovain, K.; Kawahara, S.; Koutalidis, S.; Krifka, M.; Lippus, P.; Lupyan, G.; Oh, G.E.; Paul, J.; Petrone, C.; Ridouane, R.; Reiter, S.; Schümchen, N.; Szalontai, Á.; Ünal-Logacev, Ö.; Zeller, J.; Perlman, M.; Winter, B. (2022). The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377(1841):202-390. - Dalcher, C. (2017). Linguistics in Arrival. http://dankoboldt.com/linguistics-in-arrival/#comments - D'Onofrio, A. (2013). Phonetic Detail and Dimensionality in Sound-shape Correspondences: Refining the Bouba-Kiki Paradigm. Language and Speech. 57(3):367–393. - Gajek, M. (2018). Me nem nesa: Investigating the reception of constructed languages in different age groups. Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, (15/1):31–47. - Milani, M. (2009). An interview with Paul Frommer, Alien Language Creator for Avatar. http://usoproject.blog spot.com/2009/11/interview-with-paul-frommer-alien.html. - Ozturk, O.; Krehm, M.; Vouloumanos, A. (2013). Sound symbolism in infancy: Evidence for sound–shape cross-modal correspondences in 4-month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 114(2):173–186. - Peiffer-Smadja, N.; Cohen, L. (2019). The cerebral bases of the bouba-kiki effect. NeuroImage. 186:679–689. - Peterson, D.J. (2015) The art of language invention: From horse-lordsto dark elves, the words behind the world-building. New York: Penguin - Ramachandran, V.S. & Hubbard, E.M. (2001). Synaesthesia: A window into perception, thought and language. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8(12): 3–34.

16 SEP 2023 · Questo episodio descrive i campi di azione della linguistica forense, una particolare branca della linguistica applicata. Vediamo la differenza tra grafologia e linguistica forensi, i suoi campi di azione e qualche storia che ci ha fatto capire come la linguistica potesse essere uno strumento particolarmente adatto per le indagini. La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna FONTI: - Artioli S. (2018). La Linguistica forense: una introduzione e una proposta di applicazione nel contesto italiano. MA Thesis Università degli studi di Santiago de Compostela. - Bellucci P. (2006). A onor del vero. Fondamenti di linguistica giudiziaria, Torino, UTET. - De Vel O. (2001), Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics, Newsletter ACM SIGMOD Record, 30(4). - Ellen, D, 2003, Scientific Examination of Documents, Boca Raton, CRC Press. - Marotta G. & Nocchi N. (2001), La liquida laterale nel livornese, Rivista italiana di dialettologia. Lingue dialetti e società 25, pp. 285-326. - Nocchi N. (2003), Vesto ví: un fenomeno di rafforzamento in livornese? in G. Marotta e N. Nocchi (Eds.) Atti delle XIII Giornate di Studio del GFS, ETS, Pisa:221-232. - Oates J. (2012). John Christie of Rillington Place: Biography of a Serial Killer. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword Books Ltd. - Olsson J. (2004), Forensic Linguistics, London-New York, Continuum. - Pastena, P (2012), Alcune applicazioni della linguistica forense in perizia grafica. Relazione al Convegno Nazionale dell'Istituto di Grafologia Forense, Mesagne (BS) 7-9 settembre 2012.

16 AUG 2023 · Questo episodio descrive il runglish, una lingua embrionale data dal mischiarsi di russo ed inglese. In particolare vedremo il suo uso nella Stazione spaziale internazionale e se non stiamo assistendo alle fasi primordiali di un "creolo spaziale"! Per ogni mia piccola conoscenza spaziale si ringrazia Adrian Fartade e il suo canale YouTube Link4Universe, in particolar modo per questa puntata la live su Twitch e caricata su Youtube "20 anni di Stazione Spaziale Internazionale: Storia, presente e futuro della ISS" La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna FONTI: Bondarenko O. (2014) Does Russian English Exist? American Journal of Educational Research 2(9): 833. Clyne, M. (2000). Constraints on code-switching: how universal are they? In Li Wei (ed.). The Bilingualism Reader. Routledge. Harland D. (2004) The Story of Space Station Mir. Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Merkulova, E.N. (2015). “Ay spik from may khart,” or does Runglish really exist? Political Linguistics 53(3):42-49 Rivlina A.A. (2020) Russian English and what it is not. Russian Journal of Linguistics 24(3):649-668. https://www.nasa.gov/content/astronaut-selection-program/ http://cjonline.com/stories/101000/new_runglish.shtml#.WMjV86JOk2w https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/why-astronauts-speak-in-space-creole.html

16 JUL 2023 · Questo episodio affronta il concetto fuorviante di lingue facili e difficili analizzando il fenomeno super affascinante delle lingue creole. Non esiste infatti un solo creolo, ma molti creoli diversi basati su lingue diversissime tra loro. Eppure tutte le lingue creole hanno tratti comuni, per il semplice fatto che vengono sviluppate dal cervello umano. La sigla è stata prodotta da White Hot e fornita da https://freebeats.io Grafiche: Gianluca La Bruna FONTI: Calvet, L.J. (2006). Toward an Ecology of World Languages. Malden, MA: Polity Press. DeGraff M (2003) Against creole exceptionalism. Language 79(2):391–410 Kachru Y. & Nelson C.L. (2006) World Englishes in Asian Contexts. Hong Kong University Press Lupyan G., Dale R. (2010) Language structure is partly determined by social structure. PLoS One 20;5(1):e8559 Reali F, Chater N, Christiansen MH. (2018).Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: How population size affects language. Proc Biol Sci. Jan 31 Sessarego, S. (2020) Not all grammatical features are robustly transmitted during the emergence of creoles. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 7:130 Taylor, D.; Hall, R.A. (1967). Review of Pidgin and Creole Languages. In R.A. Hall, Jr (Ed.) Language 43 (3):817–824 Thomason, S.G. & Kaufman, T. (1988), Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics, Berkeley: University of California Press Todd, Loreto (1990), Pidgins and Creoles, Routledge https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lingue-creole/ ,