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Linguistically Aware is a spoken word program about the use of language in all walks of life airing monthly on CJSW. Our host, Dusan, invites linguists, language experts, to talk about a variety of topics exploring how language is used, understood, and changed.
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- Sep 9, 2026
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Linguistically Aware - Episode September 8, 2026 (opens the original)
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Can machines tell when we’re being sarcastic? In this episode, Brooklyn sits down with Andi — a high school student at Webber Academy — to talk about her year-long linguistics research project about automatically identifying sarcasm in speech. In this project, Andi teamed up with our faculty and graduate students to investigate what make something sound sarcastic and if we can teach a computer to use these cues to identify sarcasm.
Linguistically Aware - Episode August 11, 2026 (opens the original)
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Layers of Language: The Hidden Structure of Words and Sentences In this episode, Brooklyn sits down with the incredible Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Ritter — a syntactician from the University of Calgary. In this interview, Betsy tells us all about her career journey and why we think languages have a hidden hierarchical structure.
Linguistically Aware - Episode July 14, 2026 (opens the original)
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Discovering How Kids Learn to Talk: Inside the Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab Ever wonder how children develop language? Us too! Join us with Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou as we learn about the developmental psycholinguistics lab at the University of Calgary — what they study, why it matters, and what we know (or don’t know!) about how young minds acquire language.
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