Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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Subscribers: 438
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 92
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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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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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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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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87: Trans-Inclusive (with Andrew Perfors)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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85: The Dictionary People (with Sarah Ogilvie)
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Nov 04, 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 |
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27: It’s All Semantics (live at LingFest 2021)
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May 18, 2021 |
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26: Hyphen (with Pardis Mahdavi)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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25: Transcription (with Maya Klein)
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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24: Higher Ed Discrimination (with Gail Clements, Marnie Jo Petray, and Fabio Trecca)
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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23: Mailbag of YouChoob (with the Layman's Linguist)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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22: Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (with Jesse Sheidlower)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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21: Journal Club: Newsblast!
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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20: Madam VP (with Nicole Holliday and Caroline Kilov)
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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19: Mailbag, Schmailbag
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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18: Swearin' Time (with Kory Stamper)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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17: Words of the Week of the Year 2020
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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16: Mailbag of Spedrun
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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15: Xenolanguage (with Kathryn Hymes)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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14: Word Jail (with Ian Cushing)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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13: White Supremacy (with Kelly Wright)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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12: Mailbag: Will Ben Get It Right?
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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11: Aboriginal English: Yarning (with Glenys Collard and Celeste Rodriguez Louro)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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10: What's with Wugs?
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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9: OzCLO (with Henry Wu, Elisabeth Mayer, and the students of Sydney Girls School and Sydney Boys School)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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8: How Translatable Are Languages? (with Gary Lupyan)
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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7: Mailbag of One Wrong Answer
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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6: Decolonising Linguistics: Grammars (with Hannah Gibson)
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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5: The LSA Open Letter
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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4: Bilingual Advantages (with Iryna Khodos)
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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3: Let's Talk (with David Crystal)
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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2: Mailbag of Iconoclasm
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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1: Our Favourite Things
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Jun 08, 2020 |