Auslan is one of Australia’s most popular signed languages.
But how many of us know it? And what is communication like for Deaf speakers in the wider society?
Auslan advocate and Young Australian of the Year Drisana Levitzke-Gray joins Daniel …
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China’s media office is cracking down on puns.
And not because they’re terrible — they claim that wordplay is confusing, and damaging to cultural heritage. But is this just an attempt to control dissent?
By the way, how many characters …
Even if you’re great at understanding the words to songs, you’ve probably encountered mondegreens.
They’re misheard song lyrics, and they can be funny, bizarre, and sometimes better then the real thing. Why do they happen, and what can they …
Children seem to soak up language, even the things we’d rather they not say.
What do you do about your child’s swearing? And does using sign language help babies talk earlier?
Linguist Daniel Midgley is down with the kids on …
Can you tell someone’s orientation by the way they talk?
While there’s been a lot of supposition and stereotyping, there’s also a body of linguistic work on this very topic.
Linguist Daniel Midgley swings that way on this episode of …
Conlangs — or constructed languages — give a feeling of reality to science fiction.
But constructing or learning a language means you have to know something about the structure of language. What choices are there, and what do you need …
Are we hard-wired for language?
New studies have found that infants (and even adults) seem predisposed to certain combinations of sounds and words. But is this evidence for innateness, or is there another explanation?
Linguist Daniel Midgley takes us into …
Do you like rubber baby buggy bumpers? Or big black bug’s blood?
Tongue twisters are fun, but they’re also a serious area of study. MIT researchers think they may have found the world’s toughest tongue twister. Why are tongue twisters …
Do you have an accent?
Of course you do; everybody does. And now there’s the Speech Accent Archive, an internet database that you can browse, containing sound data from hundreds of speakers of English from around the globe. What is …
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