Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

By Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

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Subscribers: 1349
Reviews: 14
Episodes: 99


 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

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A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. "A fascinating listen that will change the way you see everyday communications." –New York Times. "Joyously nerdy" –Buzzfeed. Weird and deep half-hour conversations about language on the third Thursday of the month. Listened to all the episodes here and wish there were more? Want to talk with other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics? Get bonus episodes and access to our Discord community at www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm Shownotes and transcripts: www.lingthusiasm.com

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