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Language acquisition | The Story of Language | Episode 8

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk about the big questions in language acquisition. Is there a La...

18 Apr 20211h 12min

Metaphor in language | The Story of Language | Episode 7

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk about the fundamental role of metaphor in language, from its i...

4 Apr 20211h 5min

Learn English with a dictionary (with Peter Sokolowski)

People are passionate about language, especially language change, and words matter. And nobody knows this better Peter Sokolowski, who is an editor at the Merriam-Webster dictionary, one of the most f...

1 Des 20201h 15min

1 powerful mind trick to get fluency

In this podcast you will learn how Pygmalion and the Wizard of Oz can teach you the secret to fluency in English that has been causing controversy for more than 50 years.

26 Nov 202015min

Destroying language myths (with Shana Poplack)

It’s an unfortunate fact that many people don’t know the truth about how language works outside of their grammar books, in the real world, but recently I spoke to someone who is trying to change that....

19 Nov 202057min

Where words come from and how to remember them (with Mark Forsyth)

There are few people in the world who know as much about where words come from as Mark Forsyth. His first book, The Etymologicon, was a journey through the origins of many common words and their conne...

10 Nov 202045min

Grammar based on the unfamiliar (with Robert Van Valin)

It’s an unfortunate fact that most of linguistic theory is based on a few major European languages, especially English, which actually damages our understanding of how the thousands of languages in th...

7 Nov 202044min