Transcripts
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- Cross-cultural communication (in space!)
- Begonia, average coral, and sea pink - Defining colour terms with Kory Stamper
- Why “it’s a diglossia!” explains so many social dynamics
- When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL)
- Whoa!! A surprise episode??? For me??!!
- The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate
- On the nose - How the nose shapes language
- Highs and lows of tone in Babanki - Interview with Pius Akumbu
- Urban Multilingualism
- Is a hotdog a sandwich? The problem with definitions
- Linguistics of TikTok - Interview with Adam Aleksic aka EtymologyNerd
- Reading and language play in Sámi - Interview with Hanna-Máret Outakoski
- A handy-y guide to gesture
- The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf
- Micro to macro - The levels of language
- A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
- A politeness episode, if you please
- Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender
- OooOooh~~ our possession episode oOooOOoohh 👻
- Welcome back aboard the metaphor train!
- Lo! An undetached collection of meaning-parts!
- The perfectly imperfect aspect episode
- How nonbinary and binary people talk - Interview with Jacq Jones
- Brunch, gonna, and fozzle - The smooshing episode
- Scoping out the scope of scope
- What visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are
- Connecting with oral culture
- No such thing as the oldest language
- If I were an irrealis episode
- Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez
- Ergativity delights us
- Look, it’s deixis, a word for linguistic pointing!
- How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro
- Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences
- The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries
- Word Magic
- Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!
- Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge
- How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting
- Where language names come from and why they change
- Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions
- Who questions the questions?
- The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory
- What If Linguistics - Absurd Hypothetical Questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd
- Various vocal fold vibes
- Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko
- What we can, must, and should say about modals
- Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages
- What it means for a language to be official
- Word order, we love
- Knowledge is power, copulas are fun
- Making speech visible with spectrograms
- Where to get your English etymologies
- Cool things about scales and implicature
- Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta
- That’s the kind of episode it’s - Clitics
- Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Theory of Mind
- A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip
- Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane
- Not NOT a negation episode
- R and R-like sounds - Rhoticity
- How linguists figure out the grammar of a language
- Listen to the imperatives episode!
- Writing is a technology
- Small talk, big deal
- Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P
- How translators approach a text
- Who you are in high school, linguistically speaking - Interview with Shivonne Gates
- The happy fun big adjective episode
- Hey, no problem, bye! The social dance of phatics
- Tracing languages back before recorded history
- Schwa, the most versatile English vowel
- The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod
- What makes a language easy? It’s a hard question
- This time it gets tense - The grammar of time
- Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane
- How to rebalance a lopsided conversation
- Many ways to talk about many things - Plurals, duals, and more
- Smell words, both real and invented
- Villages, gifs, and children - Interview with Lynn Hou on signed languages in real-world contexts
- Putting sounds into syllables is like putting toppings on a burger
- Emoji are Gesture Because Internet
- Why spelling is hard - but also hard to change
- You heard about it but I was there - Evidentials
- Pop culture in Cook Islands Māori - Interview with Ake Nicholas
- Why do we gesture when we talk?
- The verb is the coat rack that the rest of the sentence hangs on
- How languages influence each other - Interview with Hannah Gibson on Swahili, Rangi, and Bantu languages
- Words for family relationships - Kinship terms
- Why do C and G come in hard and soft versions? Palatalization
- Every word is a real word
- Making books and tools speak Chatino - Interview with Hilaria Cruz
- When nothing means something
- This, that, and the other thing - Determiners
- What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles
- Speaking Australian and Canadian English in an American/British binary
- Sentences with baggage: Presuppositions
- Translating the untranslatable
- Vowel gymnastics
- Learning parts of words: Morphemes and the wug test
- Talking and thinking about time
- Getting into, up for, and down with prepositions
- What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday
- Sounds you can’t hear - Babies, accents, and phonemes
- Layers of meaning - Cooperation, humour, and Gricean Maxims
- Learning languages linguistically
- The bridge between words and sentences - Constituency
- People who make dictionaries: Review of WORD BY WORD by Kory Stamper
- Kids these days aren’t ruining language
- All the sounds in all the languages - the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Colour words around the world and inside your brain
- Inside the Word of the Year vote
- Arrival of the linguists
- Pronouns: Little words, big job
- Speaking a common language won’t lead to world peace
About Lingthusiasm
A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne.
Weird and deep conversations about the hidden language patterns that you didn't realize you were already making.
New episodes (free!) the third Thursday of the month.
