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A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! Lively, half hour episodes with Gretchen McCulloch & Lauren Gawne. "A fascinating listen that will change the way you see everyday communications." -New York Times "Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
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How (not) to kill a language - Interview with Sophia Smith Galer (opens the original)
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Click here to listen to ‘How (not) to kill a language - Interview with Sophia Smith Galer’Narratives about smaller languages often focus on the death and endangerment sides of the story. There’s generally less on the social and political reasons why some languages are favoured at the expense of others, and how community members are working on reconnecting with their languages.In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch gets enthusiastic with Sophia Smith Galer about her new book, How to Kill a
Irregularity is all over the place (opens the original)
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Click here to listen to ‘Irregularity is all over the place’Talk, talked. Walk, walked. Go...went?In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about the many ways that languages are irregular in their patterns! We talk about sound and spelling irregularity, word irregularity and euphemisms, grammatical irregularity and fossils of older systems, and how irregularity is perhaps the most regular thing about languages. We also talk about those parts of systems tha
Using tech to chat with bonobos, dogs, and whales (opens the original)
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Click here to listen to ‘Using tech to chat with bonobos, dogs, and whales’Can we teach dogs to express their needs better by pressing buttons? What about the studies trying to teach bonobos and other primates to communicate through buttons or signs? What have we learned about whale communication from the first-ever recording of a sperm whale birth?In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about how people use technology to try and enhance our communication
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