All Episodes
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics — 120 episodes
120: How (not) to kill a language - Interview with Sophia Smith Galer
119: Irregularity is all over the place
118: Using tech to chat with bonobos, dogs, and whales
117: What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking - Interview with Julie Sedivy
116: Cross-cultural communication (in space!)
115: The long shadow of Daisy Bates with This Guy Sucked
114: Begonia, average coral, and sea pink - Defining colour terms with Kory Stamper
113: Why "it's a diglossia!" explains so many social dynamics
112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL)
111: Whoa!! A surprise episode??? For me??!!
110: The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate
109: On the nose - How the nose shapes language
108: Highs and lows of tone in Babanki - Interview with Pius Akumbu
107: Urban Multilingualism
106: Is a hotdog a sandwich? The problem with definitions
105: Linguistics of TikTok - Interview with Adam Aleksic aka EtymologyNerd
104: Reading and language play in Sámi - Interview with Hanna-Máret Outakoski
103: A hand-y guide to gesture
102: The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf
101: Micro to macro - The levels of language
100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
99: A politeness episode, if you please
98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender
97: OooOooh~~ our possession episode oOooOOoohh 👻
96: Welcome back aboard the metaphor train!
95: Lo! An undetached collection of meaning-parts!
94: The perfectly imperfect aspect episode
93: How nonbinary and binary people talk - Interview with Jacq Jones
92: Brunch, gonna, and fozzle - The smooshing episode
91: Scoping out the scope of scope
90: What visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are
89: Connecting with oral culture
88: No such thing as the oldest language
87: If I were an irrealis episode
86: Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez
85: Ergativity delights us
84: Look, it's deixis, an episode about pointing!
83: How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro
82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences
81: The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries
80: Word Magic
79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!
78: Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge
77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting
76: Where language names come from and why they change
75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions
74: Who questions the questions?
73: The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory
72: What If Linguistics - Absurd hypothetical questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd
71: Various vocal fold vibes
70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko
69: What we can, must, and should say about modals
68: Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages
67: What it means for a language to be official
66: Word order, we love
65: Knowledge is power, copulas are fun
64: Making speech visible with spectrograms
63: Where to get your English etymologies
62: Cool things about scales and implicature
61: Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta
60: That’s the kind of episode it’s - clitics
59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind
58: A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip
57: Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane
56: Not NOT a negation episode
55: R and R-like sounds - Rhoticity
54: How linguists figure out the grammar of a language
53: Listen to the imperatives episode!
52: Writing is a technology
51: Small talk, big deal
50: Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P
49: How translators approach a text
48: Who you are in high school, linguistically speaking - Interview with Shivonne Gates
47: The happy fun big adjective episode
46: Hey, no problem, bye! The social dance of phatics
45: Tracing languages back before recorded history
44: Schwa, the most versatile English vowel
43: The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod
42: What makes a language “easy”? It’s a hard question
41: This time it gets tense - The grammar of time
40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane
39: How to rebalance a lopsided conversation
38: Many ways to talk about many things - Plurals, duals and more
37: Smell words, both real and invented
36: Villages, gifs, and children: Researching signed languages in real-world contexts with Lynn Hou
35: Putting sounds into syllables is like putting toppings on a burger
34: Emoji are Gesture Because Internet
33: Why spelling is hard — but also hard to change
32: You heard about it but I was there - Evidentiality
31: Pop culture in Cook Islands Māori - Interview with Ake Nicholas
30: Why do we gesture when we talk?
29: The verb is the coat rack that the rest of the sentence hangs on
28: How languages influence each other - Hannah Gibson interview on Swahili, Rangi & Bantu languages
27: Words for family relationships: Kinship terms
26: Why do C and G come in hard and soft versions? Palatalization
25: Every word is a real word
24: Making books and tools speak Chatino - Interview with Hilaria Cruz
23: When nothing means something
22: This, that and the other thing - Determiners
21: What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles
20: Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary
19: Sentences with baggage - Presuppositions
18: Translating the untranslatable
17: Vowel Gymnastics
16: Learning parts of words - Morphemes and the wug test
15: Talking and thinking about time
14: Getting into, up for, and down with prepositions
13: What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday
12: Sounds you can’t hear - Babies, accents, and phonemes
11: Layers of meaning - Cooperation, humour, and Gricean Maxims
10: Learning languages linguistically
09: The bridge between words and sentences - Constituency
08: People who make dictionaries
07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language
06: All the sounds in all the languages - The International Phonetic Alphabet
05: Colour words around the world and inside your brain
04: Inside the Word of the Year vote
03: Arrival of the Linguists - Review of the Alien Linguistics Movie
02: Pronouns. Little words, big jobs
01: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace