Linguistically Aware

About Linguistically Aware

Hosted by PhD student, Brooklyn Sheppard, Linguistically Aware brings in linguists - experts who study language - to talk about the ways in which language and linguistics interact with our daily lives. From how children and adults learn their first or second languages to how linguistics plays a role in rap music, Linguistically Aware makes the scientific study of language a fun and accessible journey for everyone!

Publisher

CJSW 90.9 FM

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

8 Dec 2020

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Linguistically Aware - Episode October 13, 2026

   Tri-Transitive Structures: A Mystery for Linguistic Theory Join us as Brooklyn sits down with Dr. Maria Cristina Cuervo, an Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Cuervo tells us about exciting research on something called “tri-transitive” structures and why their existence is so shocking to many theories of language!

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Linguistically Aware - Episode September 8, 2026

   Can machines tell when we’re being sarcastic? In this episode, Brooklyn sits down with Andi — a high school student at Webber Academy — to talk about her year-long linguistics research project about automatically identifying sarcasm in speech. In this project, Andi teamed up with our faculty and graduate students to investigate what make something sound sarcastic and if we can teach a computer to use these cues to identify sarcasm.

3. 

   6 Aug 2026

   Linguistically Aware - Episode August 11, 2026

   Host Brooklyn interviews Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Ritter, a syntactician from the University of Calgary, exploring the hidden hierarchical structure of words and sentences.

Who has been a guest on Linguistically Aware

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Elizabeth Ritter
• Betsy Ritter
• Angeliki Athanasopoulou
• Dr Julie Sedivy
• Tanna Butlin

Podcast Authority Score: 11 / 100

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Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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