I got to ask Ginny about her awesome research with Tiwa speakers (that she started in undergrad!), her more recent work on the coordinator “slash” (or / when it’s written), and recognizing areas of needed reflection within linguistic fieldwork. Also, why students don’t need to be scared of formal semantic notation.

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

John R. Rickford & Sharese King - 2016 - "Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and Other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond"

Episode transcript by Graham Blair

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