For some time the native bird kino had been mistaken for the traditional Maori mythical (feathered) animal Moemoea. The reasons for this mistake are two. One, at least four trad...

it was late in the evening when the last rehearsal finished. i was packing when i heard this conversation: "should we just leave the timpani here? we need them early tomor...

i once read a paper the authors of which argue for an association between sensitivity to Chinese tones and English reading, with some good evidence of course. these are&nbs...

to say "this provides a platform for activity X" is a figurative way of saying "you can do X here". but this is not to say that you CAN'T do X elsew...

Mr. Yiu, my oboe mentor, rang and mentioned briefly how his toilet had collapsed, leaving his family in despair. they had to move out and stay temporarily in a ho...

it is very true that we always seek to explain things and make sense of others' behaviour. yet once it's all explained and clear, we take both our eyes and minds of...

i have a colleague in linguistics who is very easily turned on by words such as "cognitive", "neurological", "functional magnetic resonance imaging"...

it was one typical chilly August morning in Dunedin when for the last time i walked into the staff common room up on the third floor of the Goddard building, the main psychology...

often times i hear an argument which goes like this: "if everyone does what you are now doing, the world is going to become.......". hence if i love salmon, then "...

prof. Saito would be delighted to learn that now the name of the said conference has been changed to "Processing of East Asia Related Languages (PEARL)" (i myself was ...