Why do all human languages resemble each other? And how do children learn language so fast?
For many linguists, the answer is Universal Grammar. It’s one of the biggest ideas in linguistics, but now it might possibly be coming unstuck. …
Author: Daniel Midgley (page 15 of 41)
We love red big balloons — or are they big red balloons?
There’s a right way and a wrong way to do it, you know. But how do we know what the right way is? And what else does your …
Language learning is important. Loads of kids are taking languages other than English (or LOTE). Lots of people are teaching them.
But for all that, we’re just not learning them. So why not? Are we doing it wrong? Not starting …
Can our furry friends understand what we’re saying?
Before the Talk the Talk team can say no (like every other time), a very special listener wants us to consider the case for animals and language.
Listener Monica speaks with Daniel…
What’s going to happen to French?
We’re getting conflicting reports. While English-speaking pundits gloat over the decline in French influence, population shifts may see French becoming the next big thing. And French still has a lot of prestige. So what’s …
What would an alien language be like?
The new trailer for the film Arrival has got us pretty excited, and there’s even a whole field of study called xenolinguistics. How will we know what to say when we make …
This special Radiothon edition of Talk the Talk features special guests, including Greens senator Scott Ludlam, forensic specialist Kari Pitts, physicist Catalina Curceanu, and RTRFM regulars Dylan Websdane and Peter Barr. Plus we play Talk the …
One, two, three… Sounds simple, doesn’t it?
And yet different languages express numbers in very different ways. How are they handled in our brains? And how did –illion get to be the suffix for truly astronomical sums?
Linguist Daniel …
Can our language tell us if we’re not well?
The words we use can reveal a lot of social information. But in the future, computers will examine our words to detect mental illnesses like dementia and motor neuron disease — even …
Did Melania Trump really plagiarise that speech?
Yeah, she totally did. But how can you tell if someone is copying someone else’s work? How do plagiarism checkers work? And can you beat them?
Linguist Daniel Midgley shows his work on …
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