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| Editor | Mark Liberman |
|---|---|
| Editor | Geoffrey Pullum |
| Format | Blog |
| First issue | July 28, 2003 |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Language | English |
| Website | languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu |
Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by Mark Liberman, a phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania.
Most of the posts focus on language use in the media and in popular culture. Text available through Google Search frequently serves as a corpus to test hypotheses about language. Other popular topics include the descriptivism/prescriptivism debate, and linguistics-related news items. The site has occasionally held contests in which visitors attempt to identify an obscure language.
As of 2012,[update] Denham and Lobeck characterized Language Log as "one of the most popular language sites on the Internet".[1] As of June 2011[update] it received an average of almost 21,000 visits per day.[2] In May 2006 Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum published a compilation of some of their blog posts in book form under the title Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log.[3]
- ^ Denham, Kristin; Lobeck, Anne (2012). Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction (2 ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 14. ISBN 9781111344382. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
The Language Log ... has a few thousand daily visitors and is one of the most popular language sites on the Internet.
- ^ Language Log's Sitemeter stats
- ^ Liberman, Mark; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2006). Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log. William, James & Company. ISBN 9781590280553. Retrieved June 30, 2015.