...things talk and go bump-in-the-night in semantics...
"Together, these observations will build a strong case against Kaplan's theory of indirect discourse, and in favor of the monster-based alternative that I lay out in Section 5."(Schlenker, 2003)
...but the monkeys are fighting back in phonological development...
"[...] a grammar ought not to contain explicit statements against monsters (they use the NO-BANANA example in order to show that there is no point in explicitly excluding real bananas from UG by an explicit statement therein)"(Scheer, 2011)
...whereas kangaroos are on the march in psycholinguistics...
"It is plausible that, say, human acts of hopping are more likely than kangaroo acts of hopping to be marked as such in Greek, regardless of listener characteristics, just because these gait types vary in typicality for the named animals. But it is also likely that such usages are to some degree tailored “on line” to the inferred expertise of the listeners—more manner information expressed concerning hopping, say, to Frenchmen and Balinese than to Australians, during kangaroo conversations."(Papafragou, Massey and Gleitman, 2006)
...and it's all just a bit gross in phonetics and phonology...
"When relaxed the vocal folds are relatively thick, and open and close in an undulating manner, the mucous membrane moving somewhat independently like flabby skin on a waving arm."(Boden et al, 2003)
Thanks to Catherine, Dann and J respectively for insights into their areas of linguistics - who knows what we might turn up next? But whatever it is, at least we keep each other smiling.
