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Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

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A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. "A fascinating listen that will change the way you see everyday communications." –New York Times. "Joyously nerdy" –Buzzfeed. Weird and deep half-hour conversations about language on the third Thursday of the month.Listened to all the episodes here and wish there were more? Want to talk with other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics? Get bonus episodes and access to our Discord community at www.pat...

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Episodes (119)

119: Irregularity is all over the place

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118: Using tech to chat with bonobos, dogs, and whales

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117: What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking - Interview with...

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116: Cross-cultural communication (in space!)

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115: The long shadow of Daisy Bates with This Guy Sucked

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114: Begonia, average coral, and sea pink - Defining colour terms with Kory Stam...

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113: Why "it's a diglossia!" explains so many social dynamics

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112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL)

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111: Whoa!! A surprise episode??? For me??!!

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110: The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate

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109: On the nose - How the nose shapes language

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108: Highs and lows of tone in Babanki - Interview with Pius Akumbu

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107: Urban Multilingualism

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106: Is a hotdog a sandwich? The problem with definitions

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105: Linguistics of TikTok - Interview with Adam Aleksic aka EtymologyNerd

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104: Reading and language play in Sámi - Interview with Hanna-Máret Outakoski

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May 16, 202547:57pending

103: A hand-y guide to gesture

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102: The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf

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101: Micro to macro - The levels of language

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100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics

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99: A politeness episode, if you please

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98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender

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97: OooOooh~~ our possession episode oOooOOoohh 👻

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96: Welcome back aboard the metaphor train!

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Sep 20, 202435:13pending

95: Lo! An undetached collection of meaning-parts!

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Aug 15, 202443:51pending

94: The perfectly imperfect aspect episode

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Jul 19, 202439:01pending

93: How nonbinary and binary people talk - Interview with Jacq Jones

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Jun 21, 202445:25pending

92: Brunch, gonna, and fozzle - The smooshing episode

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May 17, 202449:32pending

91: Scoping out the scope of scope

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90: What visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are

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89: Connecting with oral culture

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Feb 16, 202455:19pending

88: No such thing as the oldest language

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87: If I were an irrealis episode

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86: Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Ro...

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85: Ergativity delights us

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84: Look, it's deixis, an episode about pointing!

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83: How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro M...

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82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences

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81: The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries

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80: Word Magic

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79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!

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78: Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge

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77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting

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76: Where language names come from and why they change

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Jan 20, 202337:17pending

75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions

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Dec 15, 202227:02pending

74: Who questions the questions?

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Nov 18, 202237:36pending

73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory

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Oct 20, 202239:18pending

72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall Munroe of x...

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71: Various vocal fold vibes

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70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko

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