Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

Other by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

Released 13 December 2016

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