103 Episodes

  1. 83: How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro

    Published: 8/18/2023
  2. 82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences

    Published: 7/21/2023
  3. 81: The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries

    Published: 6/16/2023
  4. 80: Word Magic

    Published: 5/19/2023
  5. 79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!

    Published: 4/20/2023
  6. 78: Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge

    Published: 3/17/2023
  7. 77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting

    Published: 2/17/2023
  8. 76: Where language names come from and why they change

    Published: 1/20/2023
  9. 75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions

    Published: 12/15/2022
  10. 74: Who questions the questions?

    Published: 11/18/2022
  11. 73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory

    Published: 10/20/2022
  12. 72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd

    Published: 9/16/2022
  13. 71: Various vocal fold vibes

    Published: 8/19/2022
  14. 70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko

    Published: 7/21/2022
  15. 69: What we can, must, and should say about modals

    Published: 6/16/2022
  16. 68: Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages

    Published: 5/20/2022
  17. 67: What it means for a language to be official

    Published: 4/22/2022
  18. 66: Word order, we love

    Published: 3/18/2022
  19. 65: Knowledge is power, copulas are fun

    Published: 2/17/2022
  20. 64: Making speech visible with spectrograms

    Published: 1/20/2022

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