What if your voice didn’t sound like your own?
About 60 people have Foreign Accent Syndrome, which has given their voice the semblance of a foreign accent. What causes it, and how has it affected their lives?
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
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With so many dying languages in the world, it’s good to see new languages being born.
A brand new language has been discovered in the Northern Territory. It’s Light Warlpiri, and while it seems to combine English with the Australian …
What’s going on in your brain when you hear language?
More than you’d think. Your brain can correct other people’s mistakes without your conscious awareness, and even stimulate parts of your body. How does it work?
Linguist Daniel Midgley gets …
It’s official: English is one of the weirdest languages in the world.
No matter how normal it seems to you, it engages in a variety of bizarre activities compared to the world’s other languages. What makes English so unusual? And …
With computers getting better and better at language, researchers are taking computational linguistics into a new area: suicide prevention.
How can looking at language data help to save lives?
Linguist Daniel Midgley finds out on this episode of Talk the …
Computers are doing more with language now than ever before, and a small army of word crunchers and data twiddlers are hard at work making it all happen.
It’s all on the table, from predicting the stock market to detecting …
Why do languages contain some sounds, but not others?
An anthropological linguist has recently claimed that geography is a key factor. But over the years, people have also suggested psychology, or accidents of history. What’s really behind the sounds?
Linguist …
The longest word in German is no more.
It was a 63-letter word to describe a law governing beef testing. But don’t worry; there are a lot of long German words to take its place. What allows German words to …
The National Spelling Bee was held in the US last week, and in a change that has shaken up the sport, contest hopefuls had to know definitions as well as spellings.
Why is English so difficult that simply spelling its …
You see an animated picture on the web. Is it a GIF or a JIF?
For decades, this simple question has ignited controversy and set up warring factions. How are you supposed to say it? And why is this even …
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