Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

Soundtrack by Gretchen McCulloch & Lauren Gawne

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  1. 1.
    Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace
    31:33
  2. 2.
    Pronouns. Little words, big jobs
    33:39
  3. 3.
    Arrival of the Linguists - Review of the Alien Linguistics Movie
    31:53
  4. 4.
    Inside the Word of the Year vote
    28:20
  5. 5.
    Colour words around the world and inside your brain
    36:30
  6. 6.
    All the sounds in all the languages - The International Phonetic Alphabet
    34:33
  7. 7.
    Kids these days aren’t ruining language
    36:02
  8. 8.
    People who make dictionaries
    31:05
  9. 9.
    The bridge between words and sentences – Constituency
    39:17
  10. 10.
    Learning languages linguistically
    38:54
  11. 11.
    Layers of meaning - Cooperation, humour, and Gricean Maxims
    33:32
  12. 12.
    Sounds you can’t hear - Babies, accents, and phonemes
    29:36
  13. 13.
    What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday
    43:48
  14. 14.
    Getting into, up for, and down with prepositions
    36:38
  15. 15.
    Talking and thinking about time
    32:05
  16. 16.
    Learning parts of words - Morphemes and the wug test
    33:06
  17. 17.
    Vowel Gymnastics
    39:20
  18. 18.
    Translating the untranslatable
    38:11
  19. 19.
    Sentences with baggage – Presuppositions
    36:43
  20. 20.
    Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary
    38:56
  21. 21.
    What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles
    37:37
  22. 22.
    This, that, and the other thing – Determiners
    36:08
  23. 23.
    When nothing means something
    35:25
  24. 24.
    Making books and tools speak Chatino - Interview with Hilaria Cruz
    38:15
  25. 25.
    Every word is a real word
    37:31
  26. 26.
    Why do C and G come in hard and soft versions? Palatalization
    34:38
  27. 27.
    Words for family relationships - Kinship terms
    34:57
  28. 28.
    How languages influence each other - Interview with Hannah Gibson on Swahili, Rangi, and Bantu languages
    35:05
  29. 29.
    The verb is the coat rack that the rest of the sentence hangs on
    38:05
  30. 30.
    Why do we gesture when we talk?
    33:18
  31. 31.
    Pop culture in Cook Islands Māori - Interview with Ake Nicholas
    39:55
  32. 32.
    You heard about it but I was there – Evidentials
    33:20
  33. 33.
    Why spelling is hard - but also hard to change
    32:33
  34. 34.
    Emoji are Gesture Because Internet
    30:30
  35. 35.
    Putting sounds into syllables is like putting toppings on a burger
    29:27
  36. 36.
    Villages, gifs, and children - Interview with Lynn Hou on signed languages in real-world contexts
    39:39
  37. 37.
    Smell words, both real and invented
    36:25
  38. 38.
    Many ways to talk about many things - Plurals, duals, and more
    32:32
  39. 39.
    How to rebalance a lopsided conversation
    33:25
  40. 40.
    Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane
    44:14
  41. 41.
    This time it gets tense - The grammar of time
    35:25
  42. 42.
    What makes a language easy? It’s a hard question
    39:42
  43. 43.
    The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod
    42:53
  44. 44.
    Schwa, the most versatile English vowel
    32:17
  45. 45.
    Tracing languages back before recorded history
    38:57
  46. 46.
    Hey, no problem, bye! The social dance of phatics
    37:43
  47. 47.
    The happy fun big adjective episode
    38:26
  48. 48.
    Who you are in high school, linguistically speaking - Interview with Shivonne Gates
    44:44
  49. 49.
    How translators approach a text
    33:36
  50. 50.
    Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P
    41:28
  51. 51.
    Small talk, big deal
    41:18
  52. 52.
    Writing is a technology
    37:48
  53. 53.
    Listen to the imperatives episode!
    42:02
  54. 54.
    How linguists figure out the grammar of a language
    41:16
  55. 55.
    R and R-like sounds – Rhoticity
    40:45
  56. 56.
    Not NOT a negation episode
    31:40
  57. 57.
    Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane
    37:19
  58. 58.
    A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip
    39:39
  59. 59.
    Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Theory of Mind
    38:59
  60. 60.
    That’s the kind of episode it’s – Clitics
    41:37
  61. 61.
    Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta
    44:26
  62. 62.
    Cool things about scales and implicature
    37:20
  63. 63.
    Where to get your English etymologies
    34:56
  64. 64.
    Making speech visible with spectrograms
    40:07
  65. 65.
    Knowledge is power, copulas are fun
    37:18
  66. 66.
    Word order, we love
    33:23
  67. 67.
    What it means for a language to be official
    37:33
  68. 68.
    Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages
    40:48
  69. 69.
    What we can, must, and should say about modals
    42:23
  70. 70.
    Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko
    38:15
  71. 71.
    Various vocal fold vibes
    40:18
  72. 72.
    What If Linguistics - Absurd Hypothetical Questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd
    49:32
  73. 73.
    The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory
    39:18
  74. 74.
    Who questions the questions?
    37:36
  75. 75.
    Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions
    27:02
  76. 76.
    Where language names come from and why they change
    37:17
  77. 77.
    How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting
    44:28
  78. 78.
    Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge
    28:53
  79. 79.
    Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!
    40:43
  80. 80.
    Word Magic
    37:19
  81. 81.
    The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries
    37:39
  82. 82.
    Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences
    43:56
  83. 83.
    How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro
    41:06
  84. 84.
    Look, it's deixis, an episode about pointing!
    38:55
  85. 85.
    Ergativity delights us
    46:00

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