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- A podcast about the scientific study of language and the brain. Neuroscientist Stephen Wilson talks with leading and up-and-coming researchers about their work and ideas. This podcast is geared to an audience o...
Light-hearted conversation with callers from all over about new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, language change and varieties, as well as word histories, linguistics, regional dialects, word game...
The Allusionistinactive
A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch (All Things Linguistic) and Lauren Gawne (Superlinguo). A weird and deep conversation about language delivered right to your ears the third ...
Word of Mouthinactive- A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, opposing views, and plenty of healthy disputes. You'll get a curated selection of episodes from programs like What Next,...
- An appreciation & exploration of linguists, language, poetry, and clever word play as framed by the peerless poetry of the modern day master, Elvis Costello
The Vocal Friesinactive- Aven & Mark discuss etymology, history, literature, language, and cocktails, and the sometimes surprising connections between them all.
- A Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) talking about the words in the English language that fascinate them most at the moment, looking at their histories and origins and trying to piece together just how they got t...
Recent Linguistics Episodes
Publication Date | Apr 04, 2024Duration | 01:23:18Publication Date | Apr 04, 2024Duration | 01:23:18In this episode, I talk with Dorothy Bishop, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, about her work on developmental langauge disorder and its neural basis.Bishop websit...- Publication Date | Oct 14, 2023Duration | 01:15:14Publication Date | Oct 14, 2023Duration | 01:15:14In this episode, I talk with Rob Cavanaugh, Research Data Analyst at the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Center at Northeastern University, about his dissertation ‘Determinants of multilevel ...
- Publication Date | Jul 10, 2023Duration | 01:35:15Publication Date | Jul 10, 2023Duration | 01:35:15In the episode, I talk with Jean-Rémi King, Research scientist and team leader at Meta AI, and Associate Researcher at CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, about three recent papers from his lab on deep learning alg...
- Publication Date | May 30, 2023Duration | 01:21:51Publication Date | May 30, 2023Duration | 01:21:51In this episode, I talk with Laura Gwilliams, soon-to-be Assistant Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Data Science at Stanford University, about her recent paper ‘Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences re...
- Publication Date | May 04, 2023Duration | 01:49:12Publication Date | May 04, 2023Duration | 01:49:12In this episode, I talk with Alexander Huth, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin, about his work using functional imaging and advanced computational metho...
- Publication Date | Apr 24, 2023Duration | 00:53:45Publication Date | Apr 24, 2023Duration | 00:53:45Funny cat videos and cute online photos inspire equally adorable slang terms we use to talk about them. When a cat leaves its tongue out, that's a blep. A boop is a gentle tap on its nose. Also, when is a salam...
- Publication Date | Apr 21, 2023Duration | 00:33:58Publication Date | Apr 21, 2023Duration | 00:33:58Oh, you thought the Eurovision Song Contest was about songs? Or a fun international TV event that brings people together in lots of different countries? Or watching extremely vigorous dance numbers? OK, it is, ...
- Publication Date | Apr 20, 2023Duration | 00:40:43Publication Date | Apr 20, 2023Duration | 00:40:43Spoken languages can change the pitch or melody of words to convey several different kinds of information. When the pitch affects the meaning of the whole phrase, such as rising to indicate a question in Englis...
- Publication Date | Apr 18, 2023Duration | 00:27:23Publication Date | Apr 18, 2023Duration | 00:27:23Michael Rosen talks nonsense with literary scholar Noreen Masud. From the nonsense language of Shakespeare's fools, to the nonsense lyrics of The Beatles, via the limericks of Edward Lear, the portmanteaus of L...
- Publication Date | Apr 18, 2023Duration | 00:32:59Publication Date | Apr 18, 2023Duration | 00:32:59On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… a tail as old as time. As part of Slate’s weeklong pet advice column, Faux Paws, Hear Me Out is tackling a debate that gets animal lovers on all sides heated up: should cats...