Learning programming languages like natural languages: Is it a good idea?
Recently I came across a short article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences entitled “The language of programming: a cognitive perspective” (Fedorenko et al. 2019...
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Vowel harmony… and why linguistics matters in language learning (Part 2)
In my previous post “Vowel harmony… and why linguistics matters in language learning (Part 1)” I wrote about my recent chat with a polyglot friend about vowe...
Vowel harmony… and why linguistics matters in language learning (Part 1)
Yesterday a friend of mine mentioned in a Facebook chat that he had started learning Turkish seriously. He went on to tell me about the striking similarity i...