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Word to the Whys

by TILCoP Canada

The podcast where linguists talk about why we do linguistics. A companion to any Intro Linguistics course.

Copyright: Copyright TILCoP Canada

Episodes

Welcome New Listeners!

1m · Published 21 Apr 16:14
A brief welcome to our new listeners. Find the transcript here:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/Welcome

Why we do Second Language Acquisition

21m · Published 06 Apr 19:39
Meg Grant talks to FĂ©lix Desmeules-Trudel about why we do Language Acquisition, and why everybody has an accent! Find the transcript here: https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/second-language-acquisition

Why we do Pragmatics

20m · Published 20 Nov 14:00
Meg Grant talks to Nancy Hedberg about why and how we do Pragmatics, and the real meaning of "Black Lives Matter"!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/pragmatics

Why we do Semantics

19m · Published 16 Nov 14:00
Julie Doner talks to Ai Taniguchi about why we do Semantics, and why linguists are more interested in words like "every" than whether cereal is soup!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/semantics

Why we do Language Acquisition

17m · Published 05 Oct 11:00
Nathan Sanders talks to Catherine Anderson about what babies & children know about language, and how we can tell what they know!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/language-acquisition

Why we do Psycholinguistics

16m · Published 01 Oct 10:00
Catherine Anderson talks to Meg Grant about why and how we do Psycholinguistics, whether we even need psycholinguistics in a world with neural imaging, and why your prof might mention vegetables in stats class!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/psycholinguistics

Why we do Phonology

11m · Published 28 Sep 10:00
Daniel Currie Hall and Tim Mills talk about what's interesting about Phonology.
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonology

Why we do Syntax

22m · Published 24 Sep 12:54
Tim Mills talks to Julie Doner about why and how we do Syntax, whether grammar might be in human DNA, and whether there's a single "right" model of syntax.
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/syntax

Why we do Phonetics

16m · Published 08 Sep 00:54
Meg Grant talks to Nathan Sanders about why we do Phonetics, and how signed languages have phonetics even though they don't have sound!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonetics

Why we do Morphology

19m · Published 08 Sep 00:29
Bronwyn Bjorkman and Catherine Anderson talk about what's interesting about Morphology, and why it's hard to figure out the past participle for "dive".
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/morphology

Word to the Whys has 10 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 2:45:15. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 25th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on February 23rd, 2024 10:16.

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