A brief welcome to our new listeners. Find the transcript here:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/Welcome (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/Welcome)
6 Apr 2021
Why we do Second Language Acquisition
Meg Grant talks to Félix Desmeules-Trudel about why we do Language Acquisition, and why everybody has an accent! Find the transcript here: https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/second-language-acquisition (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/second-language-acquisition)
20 Nov 2020
Why we do Pragmatics
Meg Grant talks to Nancy Hedberg about why and how we do Pragmatics, and the real meaning of "Black Lives Matter"!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/pragmatics (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/pragmatics)
16 Nov 2020
Why we do Semantics
Julie Doner talks to Ai Taniguchi about why we do Semantics, and why linguists are more interested in words like "every" than whether cereal is soup!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/semantics (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/semantics)
5 Oct 2020
Why we do Language Acquisition
Nathan Sanders talks to Catherine Anderson about what babies & children know about language, and how we can tell what they know!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/language-acquisition (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/language-acquisition)
1 Oct 2020
Why we do Psycholinguistics
Catherine Anderson talks to Meg Grant about why and how we do Psycholinguistics, whether we even need psycholinguistics in a world with neural imaging, and why your prof might mention vegetables in stats class!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/psycholinguistics (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/psycholinguistics)
28 Sept 2020
Why we do Phonology
Daniel Currie Hall and Tim Mills talk about what's interesting about Phonology.
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonology (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonology)
24 Sept 2020
Why we do Syntax
Tim Mills talks to Julie Doner about why and how we do Syntax, whether grammar might be in human DNA, and whether there's a single "right" model of syntax.
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/syntax (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/syntax)
8 Sept 2020
Why we do Phonetics
Meg Grant talks to Nathan Sanders about why we do Phonetics, and how signed languages have phonetics even though they don't have sound!
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonetics (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonetics)
8 Sept 2020
Why we do Morphology
Bronwyn Bjorkman and Catherine Anderson talk about what's interesting about Morphology, and why it's hard to figure out the past participle for "dive".
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/morphology (https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/morphology)
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