language-learning
Jennifer Kronovet studied Yiddish so she could communicate with the dead
I first came across Jennifer Kronovet via her collection of poems, The Wug Test. Many of the poems are about language — how we use it, how we take it for granted, how we acquired it in the first place. (The original Wug Test was a famous language acquistion exercise developed by psycholinguist, Jean Berko Gleason.) [[entity_id:"84678" entity_type:"node" […]
