Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
By Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
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Episodes: 98
Oct 29, 2024
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Apr 26, 2024
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Dec 25, 2022
Fascinating discussions. sometimes it can be a little dry, but I always learn something.
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Dec 11, 2022
the best yet
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Description
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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 |