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Interested in words and language? Nalaprop 1.1 might help

Parse text into parts of speech, or simply recognise their language or script. Analyse the frequency of words in a text, with an option to do this by word roots (lemmas).

May 5, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Analysing natural languages with Nalaprop

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Identifies, parses and analyses text in any of 8 languages supported by Mojave and later. Ideal for learners, word frequency analysis, and much more.

August 10, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Exploring natural languages with Nalaprop

How to analyse text in any combination of 8 major languages into parts of speech, and make word frequency counts, all for free.

August 24, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Concordancers for OS X

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Want to analyse Trump’s speeches? Can I suggest a concordancer, such as one of those detailed here?

August 19, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Zipf’s Law: deep and meaningful?

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Zipf’s law seems very deeply embedded in language, and pervades many utterly non-linguistic data. We still do not understand why.

July 11, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Book Review: Lost in Translation, Ella Frances Sanders

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Who could resist the urge to pick this exquisite little book up and browse through its painted pages?

June 11, 2015 General, Language, Life, Painting

Words, meaning, and thought 3: pain and primes

The moral is to see a doctor when you have pain in the gut, not to consult a linguist.

June 2, 2015 General, Language

Words, meaning, and thought 2: a poverty of primes

Semantic primes represent “the complete inventory of simple universal concepts that are embedded in the lexicons of all (or most) human languages.” Do they suffice?

May 7, 2015 General, Language

Words, meaning, and thought 1: heresy and hokum?

The relationship between language and thought has exercised many great minds. Is Goddard and Wierzbicka’s attempt any advance?

May 5, 2015 General, Language

Auntie’s diaper bomb

To the devout speaker of British English, the word diaper might seem anathema. To see the BBC, still […]

January 30, 2015 Language
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