The Vocal Fries

The Vocal Fries

Download on the App Store
  • Favorites

    54

    Followers

  • Typical duration

    58 min

    per episode

Based on Podcast App listening data

The Vocal Fries episodes

  • Ope, Just Gonna Sneak Right Past Ya and Grab the Ranch

    Send us Fan Mail

    Carrie and Megan talk with Amanda and Lucy from the Wine and Crime podcast about all things Minnesota.

    Transcript

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    54 min
  • Don't Mind the Gap

    Send us Fan Mail

    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Nelson Flores, newly minted Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, about the so-called 30 million word gap, why it is problematic, and how better to think about the language children hear around them.

    Transcript

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    57 min
  • Patreon Bonus Episode Preview

    Send us Fan Mail

    In this special bonus episode, Carrie and Megan talk about Koko the gorilla, Love Island and donuts. 

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    18 min
  • Rock 'n' Rhotic

    Send us Fan Mail

    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Bob Kennedy of the University of California, Santa Barbara about accents in song, including which accents are associated with which genres, appropriation of those accents, and r's.

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    1 hr 8 min
  • There Is No Try, There Is Only Du...olingo

    Send us Fan Mail

    Carrie and Megan talk with Joan Palmiter Bajorek, PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, about the issues around learning a second language via educational technology.

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    47 min
  • Learning to Love Like

    Send us Fan Mail

    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Alexandra D'Arcy, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Director of the Sociolinguistics Research Lab and author of "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight Hundred Years of like" about the many guises of "like". Learn why "like" is useful and older than you think it is.

    Transcript

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    1 hr 10 min
  • Calling London

    Send us Fan Mail

    Carrie and Megan talk with Issa Wurie, cohost of the Young Free and Coupled podcast, about South London dialects and slang.

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    56 min
  • Troublesome Terps

    Send us Fan Mail

    Megan and Carrie talk with Alexander Drechsel, Alexander Gansmeier and Jonathan Downie of the Troublesome Terps in this special crossover episode.

    Transcript

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    1 hr 31 min
  • Don't Be An Accenthole

    Send us Fan Mail

    Carrie and Megan talk with Ethan Kutlu, PhD student at the University of Florida about foreign accented speech (FAS), which foreign accents are judged more harshly, and why we should stop judging FAS.

    Transcript

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    48 min
  • Literally Exploding with Nerd Rage

    Send us Fan Mail

    Megan and Carrie discuss Time's/The Muse's list of "bad" words. HEAVY SIGH.

    Transcript

    We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude!

    Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod.

    Support the show

    Contact us:

    • Threads us @vocalfriespod
    • Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
    • Email us at [email protected]

    Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

    45 min

About The Vocal Fries

From the publisher's feed

The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being…

More shows like The Vocal Fries

Radiolab by WNYC Studios

Radiolab

43,827 Listeners

Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

38,012 Listeners

The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker Radio Hour

6,743 Listeners

Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Hidden Brain

43,362 Listeners

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! by NPR

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

38,702 Listeners

The Moth by The Moth

The Moth

26,829 Listeners

Pop Culture Happy Hour by NPR

Pop Culture Happy Hour

11,559 Listeners

Grammar Girl by QuickAndDirtyTips.com

Grammar Girl

2,841 Listeners

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

655 Listeners

Lovett or Leave It by Lovett or Leave It

Lovett or Leave It

25,145 Listeners

Ologies with Alie Ward by Alie Ward

Ologies with Alie Ward

24,539 Listeners

You're Wrong About by Sarah Marshall

You're Wrong About

21,918 Listeners

Maintenance Phase by Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

Maintenance Phase

16,842 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,904 Listeners

If Books Could Kill by Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

If Books Could Kill

9,368 Listeners