103 Episodes

  1. 63: Where to get your English etymologies

    Published: 12/16/2021
  2. 62: Cool things about scales and implicature

    Published: 11/18/2021
  3. 61: Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta

    Published: 10/21/2021
  4. 60: That’s the kind of episode it’s - clitics

    Published: 9/17/2021
  5. 59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind

    Published: 8/19/2021
  6. 58: A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip

    Published: 7/16/2021
  7. 57: Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane

    Published: 6/18/2021
  8. 56: Not NOT a negation episode

    Published: 5/20/2021
  9. 55: R and R-like sounds - Rhoticity

    Published: 4/15/2021
  10. 54: How linguists figure out the grammar of a language

    Published: 3/18/2021
  11. 53: Listen to the imperatives episode!

    Published: 2/18/2021
  12. 52: Writing is a technology

    Published: 1/21/2021
  13. 51: Small talk, big deal

    Published: 12/17/2020
  14. 50: Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P

    Published: 11/19/2020
  15. 49: How translators approach a text

    Published: 10/15/2020
  16. 48: Who you are in high school, linguistically speaking - Interview with Shivonne Gates

    Published: 9/18/2020
  17. 47: The happy fun big adjective episode

    Published: 8/20/2020
  18. 46: Hey, no problem, bye! The social dance of phatics

    Published: 7/17/2020
  19. 45: Tracing languages back before recorded history

    Published: 6/19/2020
  20. 44: Schwa, the most versatile English vowel

    Published: 5/22/2020

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