Linguistically Aware

In this episode, Brooklyn sits down with Cheryl Iwanchuk, a current Master’s student in linguistics to talk about her research on how children acquire the ability to make inferences from ambiguous language. We talk about what “contrastive inferences” are and the differences between kids and adults in the way they understand these types of inferences!

In this very special episode, we have a double feature - that means not one but TWO interviews with well-known linguists here in Canada.

Our first guest is Dr. Jila Ghomeshi - a professor of linguistics at the University of Manitoba. She sits down with Brooklyn to talk about her career journey, her research, and to debunk her favourite myths about linguistics.

Our second guest is Dr. Ivona Kucerova from McMaster University. Dr. Kucerova sits down with a guest host, Francisco Ongay, to discuss her research on how gender is represented in language and her applied work on language revitalization.

Interestingly, both our guests today had something to say about ChatGPT and why these new large language models are so intriguing!

In this episode, Brooklyn sits down with Summer Abdalla - a recent graduate from the MA program in Linguistics. In this interview, Summer breaks down her research for her Master's thesis where she found that the way speakers of Arabic perceive word stress in their language might not match up with the way they actually produce it!

Join our new host, Brooklyn, as she sits down with Charys Russel - a current MA student in Linguistics at UofC. Charys uses both her expertise in linguistics and musical theory to tell us about how pitch is used in speech versus music, and how rap artists may change the pitch of their voice enhance or even create rhymes in their verses!

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.