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3 min read 2022-12-16 04:46:00

lingthusiasm:Episode 75: Love and fury at the linguistics of...

lingthusiasm:Episode 75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotionsEmotions are a universal part of the human experience, but the specific ways we

3 min read 2022-11-28 04:00:40

lingthusiasm:Episode 74: Who questions the questions?We use questions to ask people for information (who’s there?), but we can also use them to

2 min read 2022-11-14 04:01:04

lingthusiasm:Lingthusiasm is turning six! In celebration of our sixth anniversary this November, we’re asking you to help introduce the show to

3 min read 2022-10-25 10:44:29

lingthusiasm:Episode 73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territoryMaps of languages of the world are fun to look at, but they’re also

3 min read 2022-10-24 04:00:32

lingthusiasm:Episode 73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territoryMaps of languages of the world are fun to look at, but they’re also

2 min read 2022-09-19 05:01:32

lingthusiasm:Episode 72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall Munroe of xkcdWhat’s the “it’s” in “it’s three

3 min read 2022-09-12 04:17:25

Bonus 67: Behind the scenes on making an aesthetic IPA chart - Interview with Lucy Maddox: lingthusiasm:lingthusiasm:Bonus 67: Behind the scenes on

10 min read 2022-08-23 05:11:05

allthingslinguistic:lingthusiasm:The International Phonetic Alphabet chart is sometimes called the periodic table of linguistics – an important

3 min read 2022-07-25 05:01:19

lingthusiasm:Episode 70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev FedorenkoYour brain is where language - and all of your other thinking - happens.

2 min read 2022-06-27 05:00:56

lingthusiasm:Episode 69: What we can, must, and should say about modalsSometimes, we use language to make definite statements about how the world is.

2 min read 2022-05-26 05:01:25

lingthusiasm:Episode 68: Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languagesWhen societies of humans come into contact, they’ll often

2 min read 2022-04-25 05:00:50

lingthusiasm:Episode 67: What it means for a language to be officialThe Rosetta Stone is famous as an inscription that let us read Egyptian

3 min read 2022-03-21 04:00:30

lingthusiasm:Episode 66: Word order, we loveLet’s say we have the set of words “Lauren”, “Gretchen”, and “visits” and we want to make

3 min read 2022-02-21 04:02:20

lingthusiasm:Episode 65: Knowledge is power, copulas are funIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The pen is mightier than the sword.

3 min read 2022-01-21 06:50:07

lingthusiasm:Episode 64: Making speech visible with spectrogramsIf you hear someone saying /sss/ and /fff/, it’s hard to hear those as anything