Meg Grant talks to Félix 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

Nov 20th, 2020 20m 34s

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.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link

Why we do Semantics

Nov 16th, 2020 19m 16s

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.orgFind the s

Why we do Language Acquisition

Oct 5th, 2020 17m 12s

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.orgFind the show notes and transcrip

Why we do Psycholinguistics

Oct 1st, 2020 16m 24s

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 L

Why we do Phonology

Sep 28th, 2020 11m 25s

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.orgFind the show notes and transcript at this link:https://sites.google.com/view/word

Why we do Syntax

Sep 24th, 2020 22m 24s

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.orgFind t

Why we do Phonetics

Sep 8th, 2020 16m 43s

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.orgFind the show notes and

Why we do Morphology

Sep 8th, 2020 19m 5s

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.orgFind the s

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