
33: You're Wrong About Everett, Roberts, Blasi 2015
All it took was a tweet. Last week, linguists refocused their attention on a paper about humidity and tone. Was it bad linguistics? Environmental determinism? The reaction said a lot about linguistics...
25 Heinä 20211h 25min

32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
What we call sometimes Chinese is really a gigantic family of languages. They're somewhat divided in mutual intelligibility, and somewhat united in their writing system. How are they different, and ho...
18 Heinä 20211h 38min

31: All the Words (with Grant Barrett)
Words of the Week are coming out of the woodwork, and who better to work through them with us than Grant Barrett of A Way with Words? Wowee.
30 Kesä 202158min

30: Mailbag of Raspberries (with Helen Zaltzman)
Our Mailbag is once again full of questions, and podcasting luminary Helen Zaltzman is here to help us answer them! Why is the raspberry sound (PBTPBBBBT) not a speech sound in any language? Or is it...
14 Kesä 20211h 7min






















