Mark My Words: Linguistics! - The Dirt 81

What this episode covers

In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It's finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion. Links * What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) [https://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm] * The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak? (Sapiens) [https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/did-neanderthals-speak/] * Introduction to Linguistics (UCLA Linguistics) [https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Kracht/courses/ling20-fall07/ling-intro.pdf] * Glottolog [https://glottolog.org/] * Map of Indo-European Languages (Wikimedia) [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEuropeanTree.svg] * The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (via Google Books) [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Horse_the_Wheel_and_Language/0FDqf415wqgC?gbpv=0&hl=en] * The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis (Journal of Indo European Studies) [https://www.academia.edu/40002289/The_Origins_of_Proto-Indo-European_The_Caucasian_Substrate_Hypothesis_JIES_Volume_47_Number_1_and_2_Spring_Summer_2019_pre-print_] * Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature) [https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14317] * Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science) [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/mysterious-indo-european-homeland-may-have-been-steppes-ukraine-and-russia] * Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European (Archaeology Magazine) [https://www.archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable] * Language Isolates and Their History, or, What's Weird, Anyway? [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lylecamp/CAMPBELL%20BLS%20isolates.pdf] Contact * Email the Dirt Podcast Affiliates * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/] * TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=5724&ref_type=aff] * Timeular [https://timeular.com/ref/chriswebster/]