Announcement: Linguistics After Dark LIVE!

In which LxAD show hosts Eli and Sarah get drunk and answer questions about language, live and unedited. That’s it. That’s the panel.Jump right to:0:00 Introduction2:25 Baby Language Acquisition Updat...

6 Okt 2h 56min

Wherein we play language games.Jump right to:12:47 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Language games37:07 Question 1: Could y’all talk about how your understanding of how to pronounce the word can affect w...

18 Jan 1h 31min

Wherein we are pro-winter until approximately February 15.Jump right to:4:38 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Allophones26:50 Question 1: Why do we say “And you will be… (this person)?” when confirming i...

6 Dec 20251h 11min

Wherein we are not professionals.Jump right to:4:44 Language Thing of the Day: The short scale vs the long scale21:38 Question 1: Why do we use 'on' to refer to spiders being 'on' ceilings? To me the ...

4 Aug 20251h 24min

Linguistics After Dark will be live next month! Come see us at CrossingsCon in Philadelphia, August 15th–17th. More details at crossingscon.orgtranscript:ELI: Hey, hey, Sarah, what do you call it when...

22 Juli 202549s

Wherein we learn how to learn how to read.Jump right to:4:53 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Existential “be” versus straight copula16:32 Topic of the day: Phonics vs. the 3-cueing model, AKA how learni...

16 Juli 20251h 46min

Wherein we guess that’s part of our grammar now.Jump right to:6:16 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Vowel shifts44:23 Question 1: Why do British people say “I was sat there” instead of “I was sitting the...

20 Apr 20251h 35min

Wherein we enjoy swearing, big lakes, and ambiguity more than most people.Jump right to:6:25 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Swearing26:10 After marrying my wife, who is from Chicago, I (who am a native...

7 Mars 20251h 29min