42: Replicability Crisis (with Martine Grice and Bodo Winter)
The sciences are facing a replicability crisis. Some landmark studies were once considered settled, but then failed when they were retested. So have any linguistic experiments been toppled? And how do...
1 Joulu 20211h 34min
41: Mailbag of Caitlin University (with Caitlin Green)
Here to help us answer our voluminous Mailbag is the tireless Dr Caitlin Green, Vice Cancellor of Caitlin University. Among our questions: NON-BINARY or NONBINARY? What's behind coffee names? Why is ...
16 Marras 20211h 14min
40: Dialect Playthrough (with Hakan Seyalıoğlu and Stephen Mann)
Dialect is a role-playing game about language and how it dies. Over the course of a game, players form an isolated community, create a private language, and watch it fade away as the community's isola...
15 Marras 20212h 56min
39: Is This a Reference? (with Sylvia Sierra)
You probably communicate with your friends using media references all the time. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But why do we include media references, when we could just talk? Turns out it...
1 Marras 20211h 41min
38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)
This is the second of a two-parter on generativism, the linguistic school of thought originated by Noam Chomsky. This time, it's from the perspective of early-career researchers. How is generativism r...
14 Loka 20211h 56min
37: Generativism 1: How It Started (with David Adger and John Goldsmith)
We're doing a deep dive into generativism, the linguistic school of thought championed by Noam Chomsky. It's had an enormous impact on the direction of linguistics, and even those who disagree with th...
30 Syys 20211h 50min
36: Journal Club: Clickety Clack (with Stephen Mann)
The Because Language team are talking through some of the most interesting research around, and you get to listen! Valuable medical information gets lost when Indigenous languages are wiped out When ...
13 Syys 202153min
35: Something's Got to Change (with Lesley Woods and Alice Gaby)
Linguistics as a discipline throws up challenges to Indigenous linguists. At the same time, they're the ones called upon to fix it. It can't stay like this. How do we make linguistics a safe place to ...
27 Elo 20211h 21min
