Linguistically Aware

In this episode, Dusan talks about the Speech Language Therapy and its connection to the knowledge of Linguistics, more specifically Phonetics, a study that explores how speech sounds are produced and perceived.

In this episode, I talk to Stephen Winters, an expert on Phonetics - the subfield of Linguistics exploring the ways speech sounds are produced and perceived. We talk about voice qualities and certain stereotypes that go along with voice qualities and their perception. We also touch upon Adele, our love for Phonetics, a bit of baseball and more.

How do we perceive voices?

This episode is about the ways we perceive different types of voices. In this episode, Dusan speaks with a U of Calgary assistant professor, Stephen Winters, about distinct voice qualities and how they are perceived in society.

This month's episode is about the use of gender-specific pronouns in language and research, and how they influence the way we think about gender roles in society.

Dusan Nikolic speaks with Dr. Dennis Storoshenko from the University of Calgary about gender stereotyping issues and the perception of pronouns.

In this episode, I talk about linguistic variation and sociolinguistics, the field of Linguistics that explores how language and society are intertwined.

30-minute long podcast about language
This episode is about a language property we call 'stress', and how it plays out as a plot trigger in the movie The Conversation.

In this episode, I talk about human vs. non-human communication and how language is similar but still different from animal forms of communication. I also play good old Serbian punk rock music.

This episode features common misconceptions about Linguistics and language use in general.

In this episode, Dusan speaks with Lyndon Rey about the ways speech recognition models work and how speech recognition is being used in industry. They touch upon the systems for analyzing speech and talk briefly about artificial intelligence systems.

This is the seventh episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dusan talks to Dr. Mary O'Brien about accents, language learning and teaching. They debunk several myths such as why it is wrong to have accent reduction courses, whether children are better learners of a language than adults, whether one can learn a language in six months, and many more. Just sit back, listen and enjoy.