The Words of the Year are out! And we’re talking about ’em. We’re answering all the questions in our voluminous Mailbag. And Hedvig springs a…
Our listeners have voted, and here are all the words! Which were our top Words of the Week? Which were the worst? And what did…
Our friends and listeners bring us lots of great stories, questions, and words. So for this episode, we’ve invited them to present them themselves! All…
The sciences are facing a replicability crisis. Some landmark studies were once considered settled, but then failed when they were retested. So have any linguistic…
Here to help us answer our voluminous Mailbag is the tireless Dr Caitlin Green, Vice Cancellor of Caitlin University. Among our questions: Listen to this…
Dialect is a role-playing game about language and how it dies. Over the course of a game, players form an isolated community, create a private…
You probably communicate with your friends using media references all the time. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But why do we include media…
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…