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The podcast where linguists talk about why we do linguistics. A companion to any Intro Linguistics course.... more
FAQs about Word to the Whys:How many episodes does Word to the Whys have?The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.
April 21, 2021Welcome New Listeners!A brief welcome to our new listeners. Find the transcript here: https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/Welcome...more2minPlay
April 06, 2021Why we do Second Language AcquisitionMeg Grant talks to Félix Desmeules-Trudel about why we do Language Acquisition, and why everybody has an accent! Find the transcript here: https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/second-language-acquisition...more22minPlay
November 20, 2020Why we do PragmaticsMeg Grant talks to Nancy Hedberg about why and how we do Pragmatics, and the real meaning of "Black Lives Matter"!Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/pragmatics...more21minPlay
November 16, 2020Why we do SemanticsJulie Doner talks to Ai Taniguchi about why we do Semantics, and why linguists are more interested in words like "every" than whether cereal is soup! Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/semantics...more20minPlay
October 05, 2020Why we do Language AcquisitionNathan Sanders talks to Catherine Anderson about what babies & children know about language, and how we can tell what they know!Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/language-acquisition...more18minPlay
October 01, 2020Why we do PsycholinguisticsCatherine Anderson talks to Meg Grant about why and how we do Psycholinguistics, whether we even need psycholinguistics in a world with neural imaging, and why your prof might mention vegetables in stats class! Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/psycholinguistics...more17minPlay
September 28, 2020Why we do PhonologyDaniel Currie Hall and Tim Mills talk about what's interesting about Phonology.Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonology...more12minPlay
September 24, 2020Why we do SyntaxTim Mills talks to Julie Doner about why and how we do Syntax, whether grammar might be in human DNA, and whether there's a single "right" model of syntax.Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/syntax...more23minPlay
September 08, 2020Why we do PhoneticsMeg Grant talks to Nathan Sanders about why we do Phonetics, and how signed languages have phonetics even though they don't have sound! Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonetics...more17minPlay
September 08, 2020Why we do MorphologyBronwyn Bjorkman and Catherine Anderson talk about what's interesting about Morphology, and why it's hard to figure out the past participle for "dive".Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/morphology...more20minPlay
FAQs about Word to the Whys:How many episodes does Word to the Whys have?The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.