Word to the Whys
TILCoP Canada
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The podcast where linguists talk about why we do linguistics. A companion to any Intro Linguistics course.
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APR 21, 2021
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
APR 6, 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
21 MIN
NOV 20, 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:...
20 MIN
NOV 16, 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...
19 MIN
OCT 5, 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...
17 MIN
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