This is the second of a two-parter on generativism, the linguistic school of thought originated by Noam Chomsky. This time, it’s from the perspective of…
We’re doing a deep dive into generativism, the linguistic school of thought championed by Noam Chomsky. It’s had an enormous impact on the direction of…
The Because Language team are talking through some of the most interesting research around, and you get to listen! Listen to this episode Download this…
Linguistics as a discipline throws up challenges to Indigenous linguists. At the same time, they’re the ones called upon to fix it. It can’t stay…
OzCLO is the Australian Computational and Linguistic Olympiad. It gets students together to compete and solve linguistic problems. It’s also a gateway to further linguistic…
All it took was a tweet. Last week, linguists refocused their attention on a paper about humidity and tone. Was it bad linguistics? Environmental determinism?…
What we call sometimes Chinese is really a gigantic family of languages. They’re somewhat divided in mutual intelligibility, and somewhat united in their writing system.…
Words of the Week are coming out of the woodwork, and who better to work through them with us than Grant Barrett of A Way…
Our Mailbag is once again full of questions, and podcasting luminary Helen Zaltzman is here to help us answer them! Listen to this episode Download…
Language helps us build and maintain social relationships. Cults — however we define them — exploit this function and subvert it for their own ends.…