What one thing explains the most about language? Here to answer that question is linguist and friend of the pod Dr Mark Ellison — and…
What do signed languages have in common? How do oral languages influence signed languages? How do they influence each other? Here to answer these questions…
What are your eyes doing when you describe a scene? It may depend on your language. New research from Dr Rachel Nordlinger and team shows…
We’re climbing back into the linguistic time machine and taking a look at language in the long view. We’ll find out what language was like…
We’re hosing down the hype surrounding AI, and frankly, we’re going to need a bigger hose. Large language models like ChatGPT have landed in a…
When language was innovated, what happened next? How did it change our abilities — and our responsibilities — to each other? Dr Nick Enfield shares ideas…
The American Dialect Society Word of the Year has been chosen — and it’s a wonderful and terrible pick! Depending on who you’re talking to. In…
In what was meant to be a casual chat, cognitive scientist Dr Mark Ellison answers galaxy-brain-level questions about how language works. Fortunately, he helps us…
Lingcomm legend Mignon Fogarty (Grammar Girl) joins us to answer all the questions in our Mailbag! And we have to ask her about National Grammar…
Anacostia is a rapidly gentrifying suburb in Washington DC, and as Anacostia changes, so does the language. How do the original Black residents use language…