LingComm pals: you need to check out this video from The Bulwark in which Tim Miller — a non-linguist! — does a perfect job of explaining why questioning Harris’s accent is so silly. Linguistically sharp and funny. Oh, that we all could do so well. youtu.be/wludyr3riKY?si…

Coming soon on our next episode: It's time for Related or Not, so turn it way up! With very special co-host Kelly Wright Kelly 🔥 By Any Means 🔥 Wright

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And when you have a doppeldayer, you can tell them: Happy Doppelday! On your birthday, of course

500 episodes already? 😅 This one has words, news, and games presented by our listeners and friends. And our special guest host is Kelly Wright Kelly 🔥 By Any Means 🔥 Wright Listen or watch here, or wherever you get your podcasts. becauselanguage.com/105-or-500/

Flower. Flower. Flower. Have you ever repeated a word and had it lose all meaning? I had a fun chat about semantic satiation with Claire Murphy of TheQuicky. Go listen! (It's one of the Mamamia Podcasts.) Link on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the…

This was fun! Brittany Wong of HuffPost got a bunch of linguists to analyse some loser's linguistic style. Linguistic luminaries include Carrie Gillon of the Vocal Fries, Jennifer Mercieca, Jesse Egbert, and Jennifer Sclafani. nd then there's me! Go read it and see what you think

What one thing explains the most about language? It's a brand new Deck Chat with Mark Ellison, and it's a bonus episode for our Listener patrons. Click through and become one! video: patreon.com/posts/113035592 audio: patreon.com/posts/113038008

Step into the Linguistic Time Machine and find out what language was like at ever-increasing time depths. These episodes were only for patrons, but now they are freeeeeeeeeeeee Ep. 88 - Part 1: History becauselanguage.com/88-linguistic-… Ep. 91 - Part 2: Prehistory becauselanguage.com/91-linguistic-…

Looking for linguistics podcasts? The The New York Times has some great suggestions! (Hey, I think I see some guests of ours. 😄) Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social Lauren Gawne Grant Barrett A Way with Words The Allusionist Jess Zafarris 📚 nytimes.com/2024/09/28/art…

A straightforward sentence that somehow cost me strangely large amounts of effort in processing

What can we learn about language from LLMs? Some very good things. I learned that language structure can emerge from a model that isn’t explicitly modelling structure. Like, LLMs don’t do trees, as far as I know. Words can be “beads on a string”.

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