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Stories of Languages and Linguistics — 51 episodes

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Do Children Really Soak Up Language Like Sponges

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communication between animals

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How does bilingualism impact children’s language development

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Social media and language variations

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Ambiguity in Language

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Morphological productivity

7

Heritage Languages: Tagalog and Cantonese

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My language learning journey

9

The Japanese pitch pattern

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The history and evolution of Hangul

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The endangered East Asian language Ainu

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The Word "Kawaii" in Japanese, English, and Spanish

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Word order in languages of East and Southeast

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Loan words in Japanese

15

Formosan Languages

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What influences the Chinese, English, and French languages have on the Vietnamese language

17

Cultural key words in languages of East and Southeas Asia

18

What is word order of a language?

19

Southern Chinese and Northern Chinese languages

20

Speak perfect language?

21

Why Are There Multiple Official Languages in Singapore?

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The Japanese word "Ikigai"

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The Korean Honorific System related to Foreign Language Learners

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How do Mandarin-learning children acquire tone

25

The history of Bahasa Indonesia

26

The word “like”

27

How to ask a yes-no question in different langauges?

28

Linguistically speaking, how does Esperanto compare/contrast to the current Lingua Franca of the world, English?

29

Just How Different Are We?

30

The differences between the American Version of English and the British version of English

31

Understanding animal “language”

32

How has English changed over time?

33

How are dialects formed?

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What is receptive bilingualism?

35

An interview with my Latin teacher

36

The connection between language/linguistics and cuisines around the world

37

Why is the English language so popular?

38

Brevity law and what it can tell us about a language

39

How can strokes affect language processing and why?

40

Wanna to know forensic linguistics?

41

Do you want to hear what a trilingual person would say about language acquisition?

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Noam Chomsky and his linguistics theories

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Does your native language influence your worldview or the way you think about various things in life?

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How does language change over time?

45

Do you think your socio-economic environment affects the attributes you associate with words?

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Can you start to mater a new language when you are an adult?

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The intersection of linguistics and computer science

48

"long, thin, metal ruler" versus "metal, thin, long ruler"

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How did click consonants develop in Southern and East Africa?

50

Early Computational Linguistics and the Rise of Chatbots

51

What factors affect the speed and success of second language acquisition?