Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
Episodes
36: Journal Club: Clickety Clack (with Stephen Mann)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Because Language team are talking through some of the most interesting research around, and you get to listen! Valuable medical information gets ...
35: Something's Got to Change (with Lesley Woods and Alice Gaby)
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Linguistics as a discipline throws up challenges to Indigenous linguists. At the same time, they're the ones called upon to fix it. It can't stay like...
34: OzCLO 2021: 2 Cool 4 School (with Elisabeth Mayer, Henry Wu, Victoria Papaioannou, and the students of Melbourne Girls Grammar School)
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
OzCLO is the Australian Computational and Linguistic Olympiad. It gets students together to compete and solve linguistic problems. It's also a gateway...
33: You're Wrong About Everett, Roberts, Blasi 2015
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
All it took was a tweet. Last week, linguists refocused their attention on a paper about humidity and tone. Was it bad linguistics? Environmental dete...
32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
18 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What we call sometimes Chinese is really a gigantic family of languages. They're somewhat divided in mutual intelligibility, and somewhat united in th...
31: All the Words (with Grant Barrett)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Words of the Week are coming out of the woodwork, and who better to work through them with us than Grant Barrett of A Way with Words? Wowee.
30: Mailbag of Raspberries (with Helen Zaltzman)
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our Mailbag is once again full of questions, and podcasting luminary Helen Zaltzman is here to help us answer them! Why is the raspberry sound (PBTPB...
29: Cultish (with Amanda Montell and Jared Holt)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Blog post with show notes: http://becauselanguage.com/29-cultish/ Support the show on Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/becauselangpod/ Language helps ...
28: The Cutting Edge (with Emma Schimke, Georgia Dempster, and Kirsten Ellis) - Pint of Science Takeover episode!
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes: http://becauselanguage.com/28-the-cutting-edge/ Become a patron and support the show: http://patreon.com/join/becauselangpod/ We're taking...