Episodes
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“A Lee Chip”
https://ncsu.edu/linguistics/docs/audio/linglab_episode7.mp3 On this episode of Linglab we talk to Caroline Myrick, a Sociology and Sociolinguistics doctoral student at N.C. State, about her work compiling a dictionary on Saban English, a variety of English spoken on the island of Saba. Joining…
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The Politics of Accessibility
https://ncsu.edu/linguistics/docs/audio/linglab_episode6.mp3 On this episode of Linglab, we’re doing something a little different. Usually I look at other people’s work in linguistics and talk about their larger implications. But this time, we’re going to talk about my work and some of what I...
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“It Won’t Cost Much. Just Your Voice!”
Episode 5: “It Won’t Cost Much. Just Your Voice!” https://ncsu.edu/linguistics/docs/audio/linglab_episode5.mp3 There’s this scene in The Little Mermaid. Ariel is considering a deal with Ursula, the sea witch. Ursula is agreeing to give her legs so she can walk on land and be where the people are....
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Would You Like Fry With That?
On this episode of Linglab we talk to Amy Hemmeter, a Masters student in Linguistics at N.C. State University, about her research on social perceptions of vocal fry. Vocal fry, like uptalk and quotative like, has been receiving a lot of pushback in the media. It has become a punchline in a media...
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What’s in a Name?
Episode 2: What’s in a Name? On this episode of Linglab we talk to Caroline Myrick, a doctoral student and linguistic student at N.C. State about her work with Saban English, a variety of English spoken on the small Dutch island of Saba. We also discuss how her work ties into a larger debate that...
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A Technical Glitch is Still a Social Violation
We talk to Joel Schneier, a graduate of our linguistic program and current doctoral student, about his work in text messaging as well as text messaging’s undeserved label as the destroyer of language and what linguists really think is going on with this new medium. We also talk about how text...