Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
By Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
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Subscribers: 1380
Reviews: 15
Episodes: 104
Jan 23, 2025
Varies from interesting to honestly pretty dry, even from someone who loved Gretchen's book
Oct 29, 2024
Byrd Bones
Apr 26, 2024
Wesley Morgan
Dec 25, 2022
Fascinating discussions. sometimes it can be a little dry, but I always learn something.
Sacto
Dec 11, 2022
the best yet
Jun 18, 2022
Feb 22, 2022
Tim
Feb 6, 2022
A great linguistic podcast. Very informative but not boring, rather entertaining.
Feb 1, 2022
Eve
Jul 29, 2020
part of the bridge to me taking linguistics as a major! Lovely hosts, interesting discussions, thought provoking!
Jeff
Jan 8, 2020
I encourage anyone who is interested in language to subscribe to this podcast. I have only listened to eight episodes of this podcast, but I have found them to be very helpful and informative. One small concern with the first six podcasts was an apparent mismatch between the volume level of the hosts/presenters and the volume level of the accompanying music. But in episode 7 and 8 that appears to be fixed.
Nov 11, 2019
Apr 1, 2019
Nick Wilson
Oct 23, 2018
I teach Linguistics, and recommend Lingthusiasm to all of my students at Macquarie University. Goes into more depth about linguistic topics than possible in a lecture and in a fun and accessible way. So good I bought the t-shirt!
Oct 16, 2018
Description
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104: Reading and language play in Sámi - Interview with Hanna-Máret Outakoski
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May 16, 2025 |
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103: A hand-y guide to gesture
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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102: The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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101: Micro to macro - The levels of language
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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99: A politeness episode, if you please
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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97: OooOooh~~ our possession episode oOooOOoohh 👻
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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96: Welcome back aboard the metaphor train!
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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95: Lo! An undetached collection of meaning-parts!
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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94: The perfectly imperfect aspect episode
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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93: How nonbinary and binary people talk - Interview with Jacq Jones
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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92: Brunch, gonna, and fozzle - The smooshing episode
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May 17, 2024 |
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91: Scoping out the scope of scope
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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90: What visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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89: Connecting with oral culture
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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88: No such thing as the oldest language
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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87: If I were an irrealis episode
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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86: Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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85: Ergativity delights us
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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84: Look, it's deixis, an episode about pointing!
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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83: How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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81: The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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80: Word Magic
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May 19, 2023 |
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79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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78: Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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76: Where language names come from and why they change
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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74: Who questions the questions?
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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71: Various vocal fold vibes
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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69: What we can, must, and should say about modals
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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68: Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages
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May 20, 2022 |
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67: What it means for a language to be official
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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66: Word order, we love
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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65: Knowledge is power, copulas are fun
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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64: Making speech visible with spectrograms
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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63: Where to get your English etymologies
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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62: Cool things about scales and implicature
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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61: Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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60: That’s the kind of episode it’s - clitics
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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58: A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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57: Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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56: Not NOT a negation episode
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May 20, 2021 |
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55: R and R-like sounds - Rhoticity
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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54: How linguists figure out the grammar of a language
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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53: Listen to the imperatives episode!
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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52: Writing is a technology
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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51: Small talk, big deal
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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50: Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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49: How translators approach a text
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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48: Who you are in high school, linguistically speaking - Interview with Shivonne Gates
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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47: The happy fun big adjective episode
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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46: Hey, no problem, bye! The social dance of phatics
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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45: Tracing languages back before recorded history
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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44: Schwa, the most versatile English vowel
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May 22, 2020 |
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43: The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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42: What makes a language “easy”? It’s a hard question
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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41: This time it gets tense - The grammar of time
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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39: How to rebalance a lopsided conversation
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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38: Many ways to talk about many things - Plurals, duals and more
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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37: Smell words, both real and invented
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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36: Villages, gifs, and children: Researching signed languages in real-world contexts with Lynn Hou
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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35: Putting sounds into syllables is like putting toppings on a burger
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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34: Emoji are Gesture Because Internet
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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33: Why spelling is hard — but also hard to change
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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32: You heard about it but I was there - Evidentiality
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May 16, 2019 |
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31: Pop culture in Cook Islands Māori - Interview with Ake Nicholas
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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30: Why do we gesture when we talk?
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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29: The verb is the coat rack that the rest of the sentence hangs on
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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28: How languages influence each other - Hannah Gibson interview on Swahili, Rangi & Bantu languages
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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27: Words for family relationships: Kinship terms
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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26: Why do C and G come in hard and soft versions? Palatalization
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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25: Every word is a real word
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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24: Making books and tools speak Chatino - Interview with Hilaria Cruz
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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23: When nothing means something
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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22: This, that and the other thing - Determiners
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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21: What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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20: Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary
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May 17, 2018 |
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19: Sentences with baggage - Presuppositions
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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18: Translating the untranslatable
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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17: Vowel Gymnastics
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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16: Learning parts of words - Morphemes and the wug test
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Jan 19, 2018 |
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15: Talking and thinking about time
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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14: Getting into, up for, and down with prepositions
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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13: What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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12: Sounds you can’t hear - Babies, accents, and phonemes
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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11: Layers of meaning - Cooperation, humour, and Gricean Maxims
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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10: Learning languages linguistically
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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09: The bridge between words and sentences - Constituency
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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08: People who make dictionaries
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May 18, 2017 |
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07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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06: All the sounds in all the languages - The International Phonetic Alphabet
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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05: Colour words around the world and inside your brain
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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04: Inside the Word of the Year vote
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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03: Arrival of the Linguists - Review of the Alien Linguistics Movie
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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02: Pronouns. Little words, big jobs
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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01: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace
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Dec 13, 2016 |