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133: Why We Talk Funny (with Valerie Fridland)
We all have an accent — or several! And we use them to communicate things about us, and highlight aspects of our identity. So what's going on with the accents we hear? Are we losing some accents, or are they just changing? Dr Valerie Fridland is the author of Why We Talk Funny, and she joins us for this episode.
Timestamps
- Start: 0:00
- Intros: 0:30
- News: 6:25
- Related or Not: 17:59
- Interview with Valerie Fridland: 36:53
- Words of the Week: 1:50:34
- The Reads: 2:21:21
- Outtakes: 2:26:14
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By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
4.7
120120 ratings
We all have an accent — or several! And we use them to communicate things about us, and highlight aspects of our identity. So what's going on with the accents we hear? Are we losing some accents, or are they just changing? Dr Valerie Fridland is the author of Why We Talk Funny, and she joins us for this episode.
Timestamps
- Start: 0:00
- Intros: 0:30
- News: 6:25
- Related or Not: 17:59
- Interview with Valerie Fridland: 36:53
- Words of the Week: 1:50:34
- The Reads: 2:21:21
- Outtakes: 2:26:14
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