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Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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78: Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge 28:53

13d ago28:53

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Communicating is about more than the literal, dictionary-entry-style words that we say -- it’s also about the many subtle ingredients that go into a message, from how you keep your audience in mind to how you portray the actions of the people you’re talking about. In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch interviews Dr. Gabrielle Hodge, a deaf …

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77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting 44:28

1M ago44:28

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Singapore is a small city-state nation with four official languages: English, Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay. Most Singaporeans can also speak a local hybrid variety known as Singlish, which arose from this highly multilingual environment to create something unique to the island. An important part of growing up in Singapore is learning which of your la…

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76: Where language names come from and why they change 37:17

2M ago37:17

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Language names come from many sources. Sometimes they’re related to a geographical feature or name of a group of people. Sometimes they’re related to the word for “talk” or “language” in the language itself; other times the name that outsiders call the language is completely different from the insider name. Sometimes they come from mistakes: a name…

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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions 27:02

3M ago27:02

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Emotions are a universal part of the human experience, but the specific ways we express them are mediated through language. For example, English uses the one word “love” for several distinct feelings: familial love, romantic love, platonic love, and loving things (I love this ice cream!), whereas Spanish distinguishes lexically between the less int…

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74: Who questions the questions? 37:36

4M ago37:36

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We use questions to ask people for information (who’s there?), but we can also use them to make a polite request (could you pass me that?), to confirm social understanding (what a game, eh), and for stylistic effect, such as ironic or rhetorical questions (who knows!). In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic…

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Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory 39:18

5M ago39:18

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Maps of languages of the world are fun to look at, but they’re also often suspiciously precise: a suspiciously round number of languages, like 7000, mapped to dots or coloured zones with suspiciously exact and un-overlapping locations. And yet, if you’ve ever eavesdropped on people on public transit, you know that any given location often plays hos…

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72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd 49:32

7M ago49:32

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What’s the “it’s” in “it’s three pm and hot”? How do you write a cough in the International Phonetic Alphabet? Who is the person most likely to speak similarly to a randomly-selected North American English speaker? In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about absurd hypothetical linguistic questions with sp…

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71: Various vocal fold vibes 40:18

7M ago40:18

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Partway down your throat are two flaps of muscle. When you breathe normally, you pull the flaps away to the sides, and air comes out silently. But if you stretch the flaps across the opening of your throat while pushing air up through, you can make them vibrate in the breeze and produce all sorts of sounds -- sort of like the mucousy reed of a gian…

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70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko 38:15

8M ago38:15

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Your brain is where language - and all of your other thinking - happens. In order to figure out how language fits in among all of the other things you do with your brain, we can put people in fancy brain scanning machines and then create very controlled setups where exactly one thing is different. For example, comparing looking at words versus nonw…

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69: What we can, must, and should say about modals 42:23

10M ago42:23

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Sometimes, we use language to make definite statements about how the world is. Other times, we get more hypothetical, and talk about how things could be. What can happen. What may occur. What might be the case. What will happen (or would, if only we should have known!) What we must and shall end up with. In other words, we use a part of language kn…

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68: Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages 40:48

10M ago40:48

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When societies of humans come into contact, they’ll often pick up words from each other. When this is happening actively in the minds of multilingual people, it gets called codeswitching; when it happened long before anyone alive can remember, it’s more likely to get called etymology. But either way, this whole spectrum is a kind of borrowing. In t…

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67: What it means for a language to be official 37:33

11M ago37:33

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The Rosetta Stone is famous as an inscription that let us read Egyptian hieroglyphs again, but it was created in the first place as part of a long history of signage as performative multilingualism in public places. Choosing between languages is both very personal but it’s not only personal -- it’s also a reflection of the way that the societies we…

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66: Word order, we love 33:23

1y ago33:23

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Let’s say we have the set of words “Lauren”, “Gretchen”, and “visits” and we want to make them into a sentence. The way that we combine these words is going to have a big effect on who’s packing their bags and who’s sitting at home with the kettle on. In English, our two sentences look like “Gretchen visits Lauren” and “Lauren visits Gretchen” -- b…

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65: Knowledge is power, copulas are fun 37:18

1y ago37:18

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The pen is mightier than the sword. Knowledge is power, France is bacon. These, ahem, classic quotes all have something linguistically interesting in common: they’re all formed around a particular use of the verb “be” known as a copula. In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCull…

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64: Making speech visible with spectrograms 40:07

1y ago40:07

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If you hear someone saying /sss/ and /fff/, it’s hard to hear those as anything other than, well, S and F. This is very convenient for understanding language, but it’s less convenient for analyzing it -- if you’re trying to figure out exactly what makes two s-like sounds different, it would be helpful if you could kinda sorta turn the language proc…

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63: Where to get your English etymologies 34:56

1+ y ago34:56

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When you look at a series of words that sorta sound like each other, such as pesto, paste, and pasta, it’s easy to start wondering if they might have originated with a common root word. Etymologists take these hunches and painstakingly track them down through the historical record to find out which ones are true and which ones aren’t -- in this cas…

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62: Cool things about scales and implicature 37:20

1+ y ago37:20

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We can plot the words we use to describe temperature on a scale: cold, cool, warm, hot. It’s not as precise as a temperature scale like Celsius or Fahrenheit, but we all generally agree on where these words sit in relation to each other. We can also do the same with other sets of words that don’t necessarily have an equivalent scientific scale, suc…

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61: Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta 44:26

1+ y ago44:26

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If you want to know what a particular person, era, or society thinks about a given topic, you might want to read what that person or people have written about it. Which would be fine if your topic and people are very specific, but what if you’ve got, say, “everything published in English between 1800 and 2000″ and you’re trying to figure out how th…

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60: That’s the kind of episode it’s - clitics 41:37

1+ y ago41:37

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Here’s a completely normal and unremarkable sentence. Let’s imagine we have two different coloured pens, and we’re going to circle the words in red and the affixes, that’s prefixes and suffixes, in blue. “Later today, I’ll know if I hafta get some prizes for Helen of Troy’s competition, or if it isn’t necessary.”Some of these are pretty straightfor…

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59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind 38:59

1+ y ago38:59

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Let's say I show you and our friend Gavagai a box of chocolates, and then Gav leaves the room, and I show you that the box actually contains coloured pencils. (Big letdown, sorry.) When Gav comes back in the room a minute later, and we've closed the box again, what are they going to think is in the box? In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloc…

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58: A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip 39:39

1+ y ago39:39

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What do the sounds fffff, vvvv, ssss, and zzzz all have in common? They're all produced by creating a sort of friction in your mouth when you constrict two parts against each other, whether that's your lips, your teeth, your tongue, the roof of your mouth, or in your throat. This whole class of sounds that are produced using friction are known as f…

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57: Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane 37:19

2y ago37:19

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When you see something on social media in a language you don’t read, it’s really handy to have a quick and good-enough “click to translate” option. But despite the fact that 2000 of the world’s languages are African, machine translation and other language tech tools don’t yet exist for most of them. In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch int…

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56: Not NOT a negation episode 31:40

2y ago31:40

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“I don’t have a pet dinosaur.” This sentence is, we assume, true for everyone listening to this episode (if it isn’t, uh, tell us your ways?). And yet it has a different feel to it than a more ordinary sentence like “I don’t have a cat”, the type of negated sentence that’s true for some people and not others. In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawn…

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55: R and R-like sounds - Rhoticity 40:45

2y ago40:45

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The letter R is just one symbol, but it can represent a whole family of sounds. In various languages, R can be made in various places, from the tip of your tongue to the back of your throat, and in various ways, from repeatedly trilling a small fleshy part against the rest of your mouth to an almost fully open mouth that’s practically a vowel. In t…

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54: How linguists figure out the grammar of a language 41:16

2y ago41:16

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If you go to the linguistics section of a big library, you may find some shelves containing thick, dusty grammars of various languages. But grammars, like dictionaries, don’t just appear out of nowhere -- they’re made by people, and those people bring their own interests and priorities to the process. In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gr…

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Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

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78: Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge 28:53

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77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting 44:28

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76: Where language names come from and why they change 37:17

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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions 27:02

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74: Who questions the questions? 37:36

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73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory 39:18

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72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd 49:32

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71: Various vocal fold vibes 40:18

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70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko 38:15

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69: What we can, must, and should say about modals 42:23

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68: Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages 40:48

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67: What it means for a language to be official 37:33

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66: Word order, we love 33:23

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65: Knowledge is power, copulas are fun 37:18

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64: Making speech visible with spectrograms 40:07

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63: Where to get your English etymologies 34:56

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62: Cool things about scales and implicature 37:20

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61: Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta 44:26

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60: That’s the kind of episode it’s - clitics 41:37

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59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind 38:59

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58: A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip 39:39

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57: Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane 37:19

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56: Not NOT a negation episode 31:40

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55: R and R-like sounds - Rhoticity 40:45

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54: How linguists figure out the grammar of a language 41:16

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