I am a psycholinguist, but am fascinated by most areas of linguistics. In this blog, I hope to write about all kinds of language-related topics that I find gripping, from neurolinguistics to language policy and planning. I will try to make it informative and not too technical (meaning intelligible to the non-specialist reader), but I will also try to avoid gross oversimplification of the issues wherever possible.
The name of this blog comes from an anatomical structure in the brain whose Latin name translates into English as "the arched bunch". You can see it in blue in this picture.
The arcuate fasciculus is a tract of neural fibers which links two areas important for language use (there are still disagreements about its precise role). The name is meant to reflect my primary professional interest - how the brain manages to learn, represent, and use language. By extension, it should also be understood to stand for "all things linguistic".
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope to see you again.
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