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A podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
Unknown Host hosts Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language., a science show with 100 episodes published.
Each letter in our Latin alphabet tells a story. But what about spaces? Or writing direction? Should we get rid of some letters, or could we even do with more? Here to answer all these questions is Dr Danny Bate , author
We created software that could generate human-like text output quickly and easily. Now we're dealing with the societal upheaval it's caused. What are the risks and rewards, and what can we learn about language from these
Australian magpies are even cleverer birds than we thought. New research from Dr Stephanie Mason shows that they do two language-like things we used to think only humans could do: learn their calls socially, and combine
Wherever Irish speakers in the world get together, you can have a "pop-up Gaeltacht"! And we're having one on this episode. We've got author and TG4 presenter Laura Pakenham taking us through the history and orthography
What goes on in our minds when we construct an utterance? Linguists often use syntax trees to represent the structure of sentences, but are they psychologically real? Yngwie Nielsen and Dr Morten Christiansen have found
What will happen to the languages of climate refugees? Dr Mary Walworth has been working with the small island community of Nusi in Papua New Guinea, which was recently featured in an episode of Pole to Pole with Will Sm
"More people have listened to this episode than you have." Why does this sentence look so right, but feel so wrong? When your grammar says one thing, but your brain says another, you may have found a linguistic illusion.
How do you define what blue is? What even IS colour? Turns out, the quest to define colours was happening along with a standardisation crisis and a dictionary crisis at the venerable Merriam-Webster. Lexicographer and au
We all have an accent — or several! And we use them to communicate things about us, and highlight aspects of our identity. So what's going on with the accents we hear? Are we losing some accents, or are they just changin
We're talking to Dr Kelly Wright , friend of the show and data czar for the American Dialect Society. They run the biggest and most prestigious Word of the Year event, and she was there when the 2025 WotY votes came in.
Video for this episode: https://youtu.be/Mqf05kN-TaI It's Word of the Year season, and we're counting down our Words of the Week of the Year! In the time-honoured tradition, we gathered them all up from our 2025 shows, a
You know the story. The language you speak doesn't determine your savings. If your language has a future tense, there's no impact on the way you see or describe the future. Language and perception are separate. Well, may
We've asked linguists about how language began, but what would an evolutionary biologist tell you? Prof Madeleine Beekman says it's part of a complex web of body, brain, and community, and at the heart of it is (perhaps
Among so many great word games, crosswords still reign supreme. How have they survived — and even expanded — in our digital age? What goes into a good puzzle, and will computer techniques take over? Daniel chats with aut
The "Oh" show was an experimental linguistics performance lecture. It happened in June 2025 at Creative Time HQ in New York City. Actors, musicians, and audience came together (with at least one linguist!) to act out dia
Martha Barnette is one half of the linguistics podcast A Way With Words , and author of the new book Friends With Words: Adventures in Languageland . Her lifelong love of language has led her through some of the toughest
Creators have to be mindful of what to say and what not to say in their content. This affects the language we're exposed to — and what we say IRL. But it's part of an old process. Popular LingToker Adam Aleksic breaks it
We've all seen style guides that tell us what to say and what not to say. Has a style guide ever asked you what you wanted to say? Or challenged you to examine your thinking? This one does. It's the Conscious Style Guide
How did language start? What do all languages have in common? How does language really work? Many answers have been posed to these questions, but one thing is for sure: interaction is the combustion chamber where everyth
How do large language models (LLMs) do their thing, and it is anything like how we do our thing? What can we learn about human language from this software? The answer might involve constructions — pairings of form and me
Dan Parker
associate · Winckworth Sherwood
1 appearance on this show
Kory Stamper
1 appearance on this show
Valerie Fridland
professor of linguistics · University of Nevada, Reno
1 appearance on this show
Kelly Wright
Director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Cedars-Sinai
3 appearances on this show
Natan Last
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Caitlin Green
health coach
4 appearances on this show
Adam Aleksic
the Etymology Nerd · unclear
1 appearance on this show
Lauren Gawne
senior lecturer at La Trobe University
2 appearances on this show
Emily M. Bender
professor of linguistics · University of Washington
1 appearance on this show
Alex Hanna
Director of Research · Distributed AI Research Institute
1 appearance on this show
Gabe Henry
Smithsonian Associate
1 appearance on this show
Julie Sedivy
1 appearance on this show
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