What do you call your family members? No, not like that.
We’re talking about kinship terms. How does your language handle family relations? Do you call your grandmothers on your mom and dad’s side the same thing? What’s a second …
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Language is tough. Unless you’re a human! If you’re a computer, it’s another story.
Fortunately, one professor is taking on the task of helping computational researchers understand how semantics informs human communication.
We’re having a chat with Emily Bender of …
It’s time once again to dig into our overflowing mailbag.
- What’s the difference between a hill, a mountain, and a mount?
- Why do we seem to add a negative suffix to positive words, and not the other
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…‘Haha and hehe denote laughter in both Latin and English, and they sound like laughing when you say them.’ So says my favourite part of the grammar textbook by Ælfric (d. c 1010), Old English author +
Would you think differently if you spoke a different language? And does the structure of your language have any perceptible effect on your behaviour?
We’re revisiting the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis. Is this an idea that’s coming in from the cold? …
The Talk the Talk team is taking their show to the Disrupted Festival, and they’re chatting with internet influencer Ketan Joshi about data privacy, science advocacy, and changing minds. Plus their usual antics, games, and the dreaded Words of the …
The Vocal Fries is a podcast all about linguistic discrimination. We think we’re pretty cool on Talk the Talk because we sometimes go there, but they live there ALL THE TIME. So we had to sit down and have a …
We’re on our customary mid-year hiatus, but Daniel’s still having a great time in the studio, taking your questions, playing tracks, and talking about whatever’s happening in the world of language.
We’re thinking of putting together a best-of for the …
Koko the Gorilla has passed away.
Koko was claimed to have learned words through modified sign language, and even spoken English. But how do these claims stack up? What was she able to do, and what does this teach us …
The Australian Aboriginal language of Mirawoong is being revitalised. But to do this, it needs more than speakers. It needs words.
How do you construct new words in a language? And how well are these words being accepted?
We’re talking …
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