Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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Subscribers: 486
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 100
Eve
Jun 21, 2022
excellent!!
Owain
Jun 5, 2019
This wide-ranging podcast makes linguistics highly entertaining and very interesting. The presenters are lovely, and I agree with their commitment to showing the political aspect of linguistics, though they can be a bit too right on for their own good.
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129: They Started It: Children and Language Evolution (with Madeleine Beekman)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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128: Across the Universe (with Natan Last)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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127: Oh (with Maia Chao, Kelly Wright, and Caitlin Green)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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125: Friends With Words (live with Martha Barnette and friends)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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124: Algospeak (with Adam Aleksic)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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123: Conscious Language (with Karen Yin)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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122: The Interaction Engine (with Stephen Levinson)
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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121: Learning from LLMs (with Adele Goldberg)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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120: Gesture! ✨👐✨ (with Lauren Gawne)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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119: Eurovision Goes to Uni (with Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig)
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May 18, 2025 |
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118: The A.I. Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna)
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May 12, 2025 |
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117: Sometimes It Feels Like I'm the Only One Trying to Fix English Around Here (live with friends for LingFest25)
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May 05, 2025 |
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116: Enough Is Enuf (with Gabe Henry)
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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114: Bye Bye I Love You (with Michael Erard)
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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113: "Official" English (with Carmen Fought)
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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112: WotY 2024: The Last Word
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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111: Words of the Week of the Year 2024 (live with Mignon Fogarty and friends)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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110: Diego's Dossier (with Diego Diaz)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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109: Language Oppression in Tibet (with Gerald Roche and Sasha Wilmoth)
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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108: Mailbag of Etymology (with Douglas Harper)
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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107: Linguaphile (with Julie Sedivy and Matt Spike)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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106: What One Thing? (with Mark Ellison)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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105 or 500 (live with Kelly Wright and friends)
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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104: Dogwhistles (with Elin McCready, Lizzy Hanks, Jesse Egbert, and Rikker Dockum)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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103: Unequal Englishes (with Ruanni Tupas and Nicole Holliday)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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102: Signed Language Mailbag (with Adam Schembri, Christy Filipich, and Mark Ellison)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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101: Talkin' Chomsky (with Katie Martin and Abduweli Ayup)
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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100: Spicy Mailbag
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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99: Gender in Germany (with Rob Tegethoff and Ciarán from Corner Späti)
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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98: Origin Uncertain (with Anatoly Liberman)
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May 20, 2024 |
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97: The Dictionary of Fine Distinctions (with Eli Burnstein)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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96: Language City (with Ross Perlin)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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95: Why the Far-Right Demagogues Language (with Caitlin Green and Maureen Kosse)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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94: Mailbag of Sextillion and Three
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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93: Stop! Grammar Time (live with Ellen Jovin and friends)
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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92: In the First 600 Milliseconds (with Rachel Nordlinger)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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91: Linguistic Time Machine, part 2: Prehistory
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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90: Enpoopification (with Grant Barrett and Tim Brookes)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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89: Words of the Week of the Year 2023 (with Cory Doctorow and friends)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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88: Linguistic Time Machine, part 1: History
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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87: Trans-Inclusive (with Andrew Perfors)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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86: Mailbag of Dog Sushi (with Nicole Holliday)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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85: The Dictionary People (with Sarah Ogilvie)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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84: Diego's Discourse (with Diego Diaz)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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83: You're All Talk (with Rob Drummond and Robbie Love)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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82: Girl Dinner (live with our patrons and friends)
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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81: Mother Tongue (with Jenni Nuttall)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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80: Mailbag of TLAs
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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77: Big Tent (live with Aris Clemons, Caitlin Green, Rikker Dockum, and friends)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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76: Ooo! Yum! Uh… (with Emily Hofstetter, Eleonora Beier, and Russell Gray)
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May 27, 2023 |
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75: Fake News (with Jack Grieve)
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May 15, 2023 |
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74: Mailbag of Go
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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73: Consequences of Language (with Nick Enfield and Morten Christiansen)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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72: PharaohKatt Is a Speechie Now
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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71: You're Welcome, English! (live with friends, for LingFest23)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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69: Mailbagussy
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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67: Words of the Week of the Year 2022 (live with friends)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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66: ChatGPT Wrote This Episode (with Daan van Esch)
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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65: Naval Manoeuvres (with Chase Dalton)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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64: Struggle Pile (with Kelly Wright)
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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63: Mailbag of Yeah-No (with Isabelle Burke)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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62: Language in Spaaaaace (with Hannah Little)
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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61: Together at Last
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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60: The Crossworld (with Hayley Gold)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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59: Mailbag of Ew
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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58: Expression Unleashed (with Thom Scott-Phillips and Joshua Blackburn)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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57: Potluck (live, with friends)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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56: Diego's Digest
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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55: Rebel With a Clause (with Ellen Jovin)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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54: Slang (with Jonathon Green)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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53: Mailbag of Compounds (with Tiger Webb)
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May 31, 2022 |
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52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)
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May 11, 2022 |
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51: A Wug-Tonne of Advice (with Kitty Liu and Romany Amber)
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May 01, 2022 |
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50: Employing Linguistics (with Anna Marie Trester and Ellen)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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49: Mailbag - It's That T Again (with Mignon Fogarty)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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48: The Black Side of the River (with Jessi Grieser)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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47: We Need to Talk About Grice (with Rikker Dockum)
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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46: Just Words (with Rebecca Shapiro)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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45: Mailbag of Words
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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44: Words of the Week of the Year 2021 (with Lauren Gawne)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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43: Journal Club: Zoomies on Zoom (with Hadas Kotek and friends)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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42: Replicability Crisis (with Martine Grice and Bodo Winter)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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41: Mailbag of Caitlin University (with Caitlin Green)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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40: Dialect Playthrough (with Hakan Seyalıoğlu and Stephen Mann)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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39: Is This a Reference? (with Sylvia Sierra)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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37: Generativism 1: How It Started (with David Adger and John Goldsmith)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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36: Journal Club: Clickety Clack (with Stephen Mann)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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35: Something's Got to Change (with Lesley Woods and Alice Gaby)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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34: OzCLO 2021: 2 Cool 4 School (with Elisabeth Mayer, Henry Wu, Victoria Papaioannou, and the students of Melbourne Girls Grammar School)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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33: You're Wrong About Everett, Roberts, Blasi 2015
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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31: All the Words (with Grant Barrett)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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30: Mailbag of Raspberries (with Helen Zaltzman)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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29: Cultish (with Amanda Montell and Jared Holt)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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28: The Cutting Edge (with Emma Schimke, Georgia Dempster, and Kirsten Ellis) - Pint of Science Takeover episode!
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May 26, 2021 |