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.…
We’re taking over Pint of Science (or are they taking over us?) for this episode! Three researchers are presenting their work in language, and they’ll…
Are fish wet? What is bi-weekly? And which Monday is next Monday? We’re solving some of the thorniest problems in semantics by voting, because that’s…
It joins, it divides. It’s disappearing in some places, but it’s stronger than ever in others. For this episode, we’re talking to Professor Pardis Mahdavi,…