10 episodes

The podcast where linguists talk about why we do linguistics. A companion to any Intro Linguistics course.

Word to the Whys TILCoP Canada

    • Education

The podcast where linguists talk about why we do linguistics. A companion to any Intro Linguistics course.

    Welcome New Listeners!

    Welcome New Listeners!

    A brief welcome to our new listeners. Find the transcript here:
    https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/Welcome

    • 1 min
    Why we do Second Language Acquisition

    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

    • 21 min
    Why we do Pragmatics

    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

    • 20 min
    Why we do Semantics

    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

    • 19 min
    Why we do Language Acquisition

    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

    • 17 min
    Why we do Psycholinguistics

    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

    • 16 min

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