Wherever Irish speakers in the world get together, you can have a “pop-up Gaeltacht”! And we’re having one on this episode. We’ve got author and…
What goes on in our minds when we construct an utterance? Linguists often use syntax trees to represent the structure of sentences, but are they…
What will happen to the languages of climate refugees? Dr Mary Walworth has been working with the small island community of Nusi in Papua New…
“More people have listened to this episode than you have.” Why does this sentence look so right, but feel so wrong? When grammar says one…
How do you define what blue is? What even IS colour? Turns out, the quest to define colours was happening along with a standardisation crisis…
We all have an accent — or several! And we use them to communicate things about us, and highlight aspects of our identity. So what’s…
We’re talking to Dr Kelly Wright, friend of the show and data czar for the American Dialect Society. They run the biggest and most prestigious…
It’s Word of the Year season, and we’re counting down our Words of the Week of the Year! In the time-honoured tradition, we gathered them…
You know the story. The language you speak doesn’t determine your savings. If your language has a future tense, there’s no impact on the way…
We’ve asked linguists about how language began, but what would an evolutionary biologist tell you? Prof Madeleine Beekman says it’s part of a complex web…