Portal:Linguistics/Did you know/Archive

February 2008

...that pragmatics studies how saying "gosh, it's cold in here" can mean "please close the window"?

...that learning a second (or third or fourth) language as an adult is a different process from learning your first language(s)?

...that Damin is the only non-African language to have clicks as regular speech sounds?

...that an agent noun is a noun derived from another word that denotes an action, and means an entity that does that action?