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Podcast episode 60: Penny Lee

Apr 30, 2026

25:14

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Podcast episode 59: Anna Wierzbicka

Apr 14, 2026

36:43

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Podcast episode 58: Ryan Nefdt on linguistic relativity and AI

Mar 31, 2026

34:21

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Podcast episode 57: Brigitte Nerlich

Mar 14, 2026

22:42

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Podcast episode 56: Nick Enfield on linguistic signs and concepts

Feb 28, 2026

33:36

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Podcast episode 55: Janette Friedrich

Feb 14, 2026

36:35

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Podcast episode 54: Neil Cohn on Speaking in Pictures

Jan 31, 2026

38:15

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Podcast episode 53: Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini

Nov 30, 2025

28:56

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Podcast episode 52: Gereon Müller on Lanes to Language

Nov 14, 2025

34:15

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Podcast episode 51: Martin Haspelmath

Oct 31, 2025

37:45

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Podcast episode 50: Gerda Haßler

Oct 14, 2025

31:26

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Podcast episode 49: Fritz Newmeyer

Sep 30, 2025

31:03

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Podcast episode 48: A History of Modern Linguistics

Sep 14, 2025

28:37

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Podcast episode 47: Geoff Pullum on Geoff Pullum

Aug 31, 2025

32:54

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Podcast episode 46: Philip Kraut on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Apr 30, 2025

32:05

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Podcast episode 45: Beijia Chen on Neogrammarian networks

Mar 31, 2025

29:37

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Podcast episode 44: Ian Stewart on the Celts and historical-comparative linguistics

Feb 28, 2025

25:05

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Podcast episode 43: Judy Kaplan on universals

Nov 30, 2024

27:03

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Podcast episode 42: Randy Harris on the Linguistics Wars

Oct 31, 2024

30:48

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Podcast episode 41: Chris Knight on Chomsky, science and politics

Aug 31, 2024

25:55

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Podcast episode 40: Interview with Nick Riemer on politics, linguistics and ideology

May 31, 2024

27:11

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Podcast episode 39: Interview with Ingrid Piller on Life in a New Language

Apr 30, 2024

26:10

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Podcast episode 38: Interview with Dan Everett on C.S. Peirce and Peircean linguistics

Mar 31, 2024

23:47

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Podcast episode 37: Interview with Michael Lynch on conversation analysis and ethnomethodology

Feb 29, 2024

27:22

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Podcast housekeeping December 2023

Nov 30, 2023

1:13

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Podcast episode 36: Interview with Ghil‘ad Zuckermann on revivalistics

Sep 30, 2023

30:04

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Podcast episode 35: Interview with Nick Thieberger on historical documentation and archiving

Jul 31, 2023

22:23

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Podcast episode 34: Interview with Mary Laughren on Central Australia languages and Ken Hale

Jun 30, 2023

24:56

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Podcast episode 33: Formalism and distributionalism

May 31, 2023

21:56

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Podcast episode 32: Leonard Bloomfield and behaviourism

Apr 30, 2023

20:22

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Podcast episode 31: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Mar 31, 2023

30:31

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Podcast housekeeping April 2023

Mar 31, 2023

2:58

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Podcast episode 30: Interview with Andrew Garrett on Alfred Kroeber

Nov 30, 2022

34:51

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Podcast episode 29: Interview with Marcin Kilarski on the study of North American languages

Oct 31, 2022

17:48

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Podcast episode 28: Franz Boas and the Boasians

Sep 30, 2022

28:55

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Podcast episode 27: Interview with Peter Trudgill on sociolinguistic typology

Jul 31, 2022

29:45

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Podcast episode 26: Interview with Philipp Krämer on creoles and creole studies

Jun 30, 2022

25:50

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Podcast episode 25: Interview with Felicity Meakins on contact linguistics

May 31, 2022

27:48

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Podcast episode 24: Interview with Lorenzo Cigana on the Copenhagen Circle

Mar 31, 2022

26:47

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Podcast episode 23: Interview with Noam Chomsky on the beginnings of generative grammar

Feb 28, 2022

26:50

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Podcast episode 22: Interview with Christopher Hutton on linguistics under National Socialism

Jan 31, 2022

20:47

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Podcast episode 21: Karl Bühler’s Organon model and the Prague Circle

Dec 31, 2021

29:17

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Podcast episode 20: Interview with Jacqueline Léon on Firth, Malinowski and the London School

Nov 30, 2021

21:35

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Podcast episode 19: Meaning and British linguistics – Firth, Malinowski and the context of situation

Oct 31, 2021

27:27

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Podcast episode 18: Interview with H. Walter Schmitz on Victoria Lady Welby

Sep 30, 2021

22:43

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Podcast episode 17: Philipp Wegener and the beginnings of functionalism

Aug 31, 2021

23:54

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Podcast episode 16: Interview with Chloé Laplantine on Émile Benveniste

Jun 30, 2021

17:44

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Podcast episode 15: Roman Jakobson, Prague Circle structuralism and phonology

May 31, 2021

26:23

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Podcast episode 14: The emergence of phonetics in the 19th century

Mar 31, 2021

24:41

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Podcast episode 13: Interview with John Joseph on Saussure

Feb 28, 2021

22:30

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Podcast episode 12: Language as a system – Ferdinand de Saussure

Jan 31, 2021

25:21

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Podcast episode 11: Interview with Floris Solleveld on disciplinary linguistics in the 19th century

Nov 30, 2020

25:52

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Podcast episode 10: Neogrammarian critics – Hugo Schuchardt and Karl Vossler

Oct 31, 2020

22:34

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Podcast episode 9: The Neogrammarians

Sep 30, 2020

20:58

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Podcast episode 8: Language as an institution – William Dwight Whitney

Aug 31, 2020

20:51

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Podcast episode 7: Interview with Clara Stockigt on missionary grammars in Australia

Jun 29, 2020

31:05

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Podcast episode 6: Schleicher’s morphology and Steinthal’s Völkerpsychologie

May 30, 2020

22:44

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Podcast episode 5: Comparativism in the mid-19th century – August Schleicher and materialism

Apr 29, 2020

21:33

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Podcast episode 4: Interview with Jürgen Trabant on Wilhelm von Humboldt

Mar 30, 2020

34:06

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Podcast episode 3: Language classification

Feb 29, 2020

19:14

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Podcast episode 2: Comparative-historical linguistics – Bopp and Grimm

Jan 31, 2020

20:43

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Podcast episode 1: Pre-history of comparative-historical linguistics

Dec 30, 2019

17:25

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