How do Creole languages arise?
A controversial new paper is rocking the linguistic world. Are Creole languages different from other languages? How do they start? And what does this all mean about the human language ability?
Daniel Midgley speaks with author Damián Blasi on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Kylie and Daniel chat ahead of the show. How long will it take Daniel to inadvertently discombobulate Kylie? Longer than usual; she’s doing well!
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Full interview
Damián Blasi talks with Daniel about the results of his paper, the reaction to his work, and what he’s doing next.
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Cutting Room Floor
Daniel and Ben have a Kermit-off.
Is Wikipedia bad?
Daniel didn’t get the name of Lexicon Valley.
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Show notes
The Closing of a Great American Dialect Project
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-closing-of-a-great-american-dialect-project
Fieldwork Recordings—Dictionary Of American Regional English
https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/amerlangs/
Dictionary of Regional American English
http://dare.wisc.edu
Arthur the Rat
http://dare.wisc.edu/audio/arthur-the-rat
Browse 100 Sample Entries
https://www.daredictionary.com/page/100sampleentries
Humans learn complex grammatical patterns even in extremely challenging circumstances
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-humans-complex-grammatical-patterns-extremely.html
Grammatical patterns survive extreme social upheaval, study shows
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/09/05/Grammatical-patterns-survive-extreme-social-upheaval-study-shows/1281504626189/
Blasi et al.: Grammars are robustly transmitted even during the emergence of creole languages
Read-only link
Language Log: No creoles?
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34340
New way don dey to prevent HIV
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-41364083
Kim’s Rejoinder to Trump’s Rocket Man: ‘Mentally Deranged U.S. Dotard’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/world/asia/kim-trump-rocketman-dotard.html
Kim Jong-un Called Trump a ‘Dotard.’ What Does That Even Mean?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/world/asia/trump-north-korea-dotard.html
Kim Jong-Un Calling Trump A ‘Dotard’ Gave The Internet A Language Lesson
https://www.wired.com/story/kim-jong-un-trump-dotard/
Kim Jong Un just called Trump a ‘dotard’ — here’s what that means
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-does-dotard-mean-2017-9?r=US&IR=T
Where is ‘Nambia’? President Trump ‘invents’ African country
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41345577
Trump Names Sarah Palin Ambassador to Nambia
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-names-sarah-palin-ambassador-to-nambia
Nambian covfefe
https://www.facebook.com/rtrfmtalkthetalk/posts/1917185944974855
#TakeAKnee: 5 Things To Know About NFL Players Protesting At Football Games
http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/09/23/what-is-take-a-knee-facts-nfl-players-protest-national-anthem/
Stevie Wonder joins #takeaknee protest against Trump’s attack on NFL players
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/24/stevie-wonder-joins-takeaknee-protest-against-trumps-attack-on-nfl-players
John Legend, Diddy, Ed Asner, more react to Donald Trump’s attack on NFL player protests
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/09/23/hollywood-takes-knee-best-reaction-donald-trumps-attack-nfl-player-protests/696666001/
Flipping the North Koreans off
https://iconicphotos.org/2010/10/01/flipping-the-north-koreans-off/
Korean is virtually two languages, and that’s a big problem for North Korean defectors
https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-05-19/korean-today-virtually-two-languages-and-thats-problem-north-korean-defectors
Wikipedia: North–South differences in the Korean language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North–South_differences_in_the_Korean_language
Image credit: https://www.shh.mpg.de/608548/creole-languages
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