Podcasts
91: Scoping out the scope of scope
Published: April 18, 2024, 11:03 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds
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90: What visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are
Published: March 21, 2024, 11:35 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 48 seconds
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89: Connecting with oral culture
Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 2:15 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 19 seconds
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88: No such thing as the oldest language
Published: Jan. 18, 2024, 11:21 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 36 seconds
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87: If I were an irrealis episode
Published: Dec. 21, 2023, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 59 seconds
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86: Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodriguez-Ordonez
Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 11:57 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 25 seconds
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85: Ergativity delights us
Published: Oct. 19, 2023, 11:53 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes
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84: Look, it's deixis, an episode about pointing!
Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 2:58 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 55 seconds
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83: How kids learn Qanjobal and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro
Published: Aug. 18, 2023, 2:23 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 6 seconds
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82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences
Published: July 21, 2023, 3:06 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 56 seconds
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81: The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries
Published: June 16, 2023, 1:21 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 39 seconds
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80: Word Magic
Published: May 19, 2023, 12:39 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 19 seconds
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79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!
Published: April 20, 2023, 10:51 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 43 seconds
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78: Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge
Published: March 17, 2023, 1:04 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 53 seconds
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77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting
Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 1:23 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 28 seconds
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76: Where language names come from and why they change
Published: Jan. 20, 2023, 1:10 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 17 seconds
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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions
Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds
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74: Who questions the questions?
Published: Nov. 18, 2022, 2:09 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 36 seconds
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73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory
Published: Oct. 20, 2022, 11:38 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds
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72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd
Published: Sept. 16, 2022, 12:02 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 32 seconds
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71: Various vocal fold vibes
Published: Aug. 19, 2022, 2:11 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 18 seconds
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70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko
Published: July 21, 2022, 10:20 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 15 seconds
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69: What we can, must, and should say about modals
Published: June 16, 2022, 9:44 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 23 seconds
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68: Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages
Published: May 20, 2022, 12:34 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 48 seconds
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67: What it means for a language to be official
Published: April 22, 2022, 12:42 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 33 seconds
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66: Word order, we love
Published: March 18, 2022, 1:14 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 23 seconds
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65: Knowledge is power, copulas are fun
Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 11:42 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 18 seconds
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64: Making speech visible with spectrograms
Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 10:19 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 7 seconds
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63: Where to get your English etymologies
Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 10:33 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 56 seconds
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62: Cool things about scales and implicature
Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds
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61: Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta
Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 10:22 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 26 seconds
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60: Thats the kind of episode its - clitics
Published: Sept. 17, 2021, 1:44 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 37 seconds
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59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind
Published: Aug. 19, 2021, 11:26 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 59 seconds
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58: A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip
Published: July 16, 2021, 12:14 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds
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57: Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane
Published: June 18, 2021, 2:22 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 19 seconds
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56: Not NOT a negation episode
Published: May 20, 2021, 10:35 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 40 seconds
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55: R and R-like sounds - Rhoticity
Published: April 15, 2021, 10:35 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 45 seconds
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54: How linguists figure out the grammar of a language
Published: March 18, 2021, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 16 seconds
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53: Listen to the imperatives episode!
Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 2 seconds
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52: Writing is a technology
Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 7:17 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 48 seconds
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51: Small talk, big deal
Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 10:35 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 18 seconds
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50: Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P
Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 11:40 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 28 seconds
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49: How translators approach a text
Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 11:33 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 36 seconds
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48: Who you are in high school, linguistically speaking - Interview with Shivonne Gates
Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 1:14 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 44 seconds
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47: The happy fun big adjective episode
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 11:54 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 26 seconds
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46: Hey, no problem, bye! The social dance of phatics
Published: July 17, 2020, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 43 seconds
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45: Tracing languages back before recorded history
Published: June 19, 2020, 2:01 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 57 seconds
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44: Schwa, the most versatile English vowel
Published: May 22, 2020, 1:36 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 17 seconds
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43: The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod
Published: April 17, 2020, 12:18 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 53 seconds
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42: What makes a language easy? Its a hard question
Published: March 19, 2020, 10:42 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds
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41: This time it gets tense - The grammar of time
Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 11:29 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 25 seconds
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40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane
Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 12:40 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 14 seconds
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39: How to rebalance a lopsided conversation
Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 9:48 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 25 seconds
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38: Many ways to talk about many things - Plurals, duals and more
Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 11:55 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 32 seconds
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37: Smell words, both real and invented
Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 10:14 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 25 seconds
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36: Villages, gifs, and children: Researching signed languages in real-world contexts with Lynn Hou
Published: Sept. 20, 2019, 1:31 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds
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35: Putting sounds into syllables is like putting toppings on a burger
Published: Aug. 16, 2019, 12:34 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds
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34: Emoji are Gesture Because Internet
Published: July 18, 2019, 11:20 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 30 seconds
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33: Why spelling is hard but also hard to change
Published: June 20, 2019, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds
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32: You heard about it but I was there - Evidentiality
Published: May 16, 2019, 11:03 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 20 seconds
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31: Pop culture in Cook Islands Maori - Interview with Ake Nicholas
Published: April 19, 2019, 12:10 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds
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30: Why do we gesture when we talk?
Published: March 21, 2019, 9:44 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 18 seconds
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29: The verb is the coat rack that the rest of the sentence hangs on
Published: Feb. 22, 2019, 12:51 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 5 seconds
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28: How languages influence each other - Hannah Gibson interview on Swahili, Rangi & Bantu languages
Published: Jan. 18, 2019, 1:47 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 5 seconds
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27: Words for family relationships: Kinship terms
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 57 seconds
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26: Why do C and G come in hard and soft versions? Palatalization
Published: Nov. 16, 2018, 12:09 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 38 seconds
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25: Every word is a real word
Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 11:11 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds
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24: Making books and tools speak Chatino - Interview with Hilaria Cruz
Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 9:21 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 16 seconds
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23: When nothing means something
Published: Aug. 16, 2018, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 25 seconds
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22: This, that and the other thing - Determiners
Published: July 19, 2018, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 8 seconds
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21: What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles
Published: June 22, 2018, 2:58 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 37 seconds
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20: Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary
Published: May 17, 2018, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 56 seconds
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19: Sentences with baggage - Presuppositions
Published: April 19, 2018, 9:23 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 43 seconds
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18: Translating the untranslatable
Published: March 15, 2018, 11:24 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 11 seconds
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17: Vowel Gymnastics
Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 10:40 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds
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16: Learning parts of words - Morphemes and the wug test
Published: Jan. 19, 2018, 12:09 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds
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15: Talking and thinking about time
Published: Dec. 21, 2017, 11:46 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 5 seconds
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14: Getting into, up for, and down with prepositions
Published: Nov. 17, 2017, 1:08 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 38 seconds
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13: What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday
Published: Oct. 19, 2017, 11:31 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 49 seconds
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12: Sounds you cant hear - Babies, accents, and phonemes
Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 7:57 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds
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11: Layers of meaning - Cooperation, humour, and Gricean Maxims
Published: Aug. 17, 2017, 8:59 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 32 seconds
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10: Learning languages linguistically
Published: July 20, 2017, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 54 seconds
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09: The bridge between words and sentences - Constituency
Published: June 15, 2017, 6 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds
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08: People who make dictionaries
Published: May 18, 2017, 7:27 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 5 seconds
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07: Kids these days arent ruining language
Published: April 20, 2017, 5:58 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 2 seconds
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06: All the sounds in all the languages - The International Phonetic Alphabet
Published: March 16, 2017, 5:47 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 36 seconds
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05: Colour words around the world and inside your brain
Published: Feb. 16, 2017, 9:13 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 30 seconds
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04: Inside the Word of the Year vote
Published: Jan. 16, 2017, 10:01 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 20 seconds
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03: Arrival of the Linguists - Review of the Alien Linguistics Movie
Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 9:35 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 56 seconds
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02: Pronouns. Little words, big jobs
Published: Dec. 13, 2016, 9:39 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 41 seconds
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01: Speaking a single language wont bring about world peace
Published: Dec. 13, 2016, 9:37 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 35 seconds
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