Your voice is your ability to represent your point of view.
So which voices are getting validated? Why are certain voices getting repressed? How do we end accent prejudice?
Daniel and Ben are speaking to Dr Jane Setter, author …
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Communities need language. But a lot of the documentation is locked up in the archives.
So now linguists are teaming up with community researchers to demystify linguistic research, so that this work can be taken to their communities to help …
Indigenous languages matter. They’re part of Australia’s cultural heritage, and they’re a way for Aboriginal people to communicate, and connect.
This includes Indigenous signed languages. In the push to recognise minority languages, Indigenous signed languages deserve some attention of their …
What happens to language when newcomers move in?
Language isn’t just for communication — it also signals membership in a group, and this is especially clear in a gentrifying community in Washington DC. Black residents are using African-American English to stake …
Again we tackle the questions that others dast not.
- Why do all children seem to know the nyah nyah song?
- Why do classic movie stars talk in that strange accent?
- Do Chinese characters stay readable longer than English words?
- Who
Listeners have sent us a bracket of great questions.
Will there ever be only one language on earth? When was the beginning of buzzwords? And why do some people say I have went?
We’ll give our best answers on …
Do you know where your data is?
Language researchers can learn a lot from publicly available internet data. But what are the ethical issues surrounding the collection and use of this information? What about data that comes from home assistants? Does it …
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 …
A conference on the linguistics of Pokémon? Is this for real?
It sure is. Looking at the names of Pokémon across different languages is showing linguists more about how language operates. And it could show us how children learn language …
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We’re working together with Pint of Science to bring science to the pub. But we’re not alone — we’ve got early-career researchers Amy Budrikis and Troy Reynolds to talk about their work in …
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