by Brandon Russel | Grammar
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 | Grammar
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...
by Brandon Russel | Grammar
As children many of us are taught that speaking ‘correct English’ is something to aspire to. Sometimes this means pronouncing words with clear diction (health and safety rather than ‘elf n’safety), as well as using grammatical constructions considered ‘correct’. I am...
