103 Episodes

  1. 23: When nothing means something

    Published: 8/16/2018
  2. 22: This, that and the other thing - Determiners

    Published: 7/19/2018
  3. 21: What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles

    Published: 6/22/2018
  4. 20: Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary

    Published: 5/17/2018
  5. 19: Sentences with baggage - Presuppositions

    Published: 4/19/2018
  6. 18: Translating the untranslatable

    Published: 3/15/2018
  7. 17: Vowel Gymnastics

    Published: 2/15/2018
  8. 16: Learning parts of words - Morphemes and the wug test

    Published: 1/19/2018
  9. 15: Talking and thinking about time

    Published: 12/21/2017
  10. 14: Getting into, up for, and down with prepositions

    Published: 11/17/2017
  11. 13: What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday

    Published: 10/19/2017
  12. 12: Sounds you can’t hear - Babies, accents, and phonemes

    Published: 9/21/2017
  13. 11: Layers of meaning - Cooperation, humour, and Gricean Maxims

    Published: 8/17/2017
  14. 10: Learning languages linguistically

    Published: 7/20/2017
  15. 09: The bridge between words and sentences - Constituency

    Published: 6/15/2017
  16. 08: People who make dictionaries

    Published: 5/18/2017
  17. 07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language

    Published: 4/20/2017
  18. 06: All the sounds in all the languages - The International Phonetic Alphabet

    Published: 3/16/2017
  19. 05: Colour words around the world and inside your brain

    Published: 2/16/2017
  20. 04: Inside the Word of the Year vote

    Published: 1/16/2017

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