by Brandon Russel | Uncategorized
When someone asks, “What is correct English?”, many people view it as a rigid set of 18th century grammar rules. Linguists define it as standard English, which is used in professional, academic, and governmental settings. More importantly, the correctness...
by Brandon Russel | Language & Linguistics
Imagine the confusion when Leicester City Football Club famously won the Premier League for the first time. Around the world, people were cheering for “Lay-kes-terr” or “Lie-chess-ter,” unaware that locals simply say Lester. Now the question is, “Why is Leicester...
by Brandon Russel | Uncategorized
Universal Grammar (UG) is the controversial idea that language is a universal, evolved and specific capacity for learning and arranging grammatical constructions, hard-wired into our brains. Under UG the ability for human beings to learn language is specific, in that...