>what is that little voice inside my head? inner speech phenomenology, its role in cognitive performance, and its relation to self-monitoring<
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Who wouldn't want to be a schwa? We can all aspire to be a little less stressed, like our favourite English vowel

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This month we get enthusiastic about what visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are. We commissioned Bethany Gardner to make custom vowel plots for us, like this one of our Wells Lexical Set results.

Check out the episode and see more vowel plots:
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Which of Daniel Jones’s 10 secondary Cardinal Vowels is your favourite? In honour of Vowel Month we're running this highly serious poll, so vote now to make sure yours wins!

Check out our latest episode to learn more about vowel sounds and accents!

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My vowels all looks like they're trying to avoid each other 😂

it's vowel episode time!

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and Lauren Gawne mention a meme with emojis for the Wells Lexical Set words, and now I need to go add one of those 🐑🪿💭🫴

'But what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.'

'This is altogether too much.'

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This is a fun podcast episode for linguist nerds who love to plot a good vowel chart. Bonus content: their metaphor for the vowel tract as a 'meat bagpipe'!😂

We've designed a subtle, minimal version of the IPA chart that's more like weird-yet-stylish nerd art and less like a diagram from an academic paper!

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What a fun algorithmic occurrence 🤭

1. Normal Gossip - Investigates the Poop Story!

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2. Lingthusiasm follows with this gem…

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Who wouldn't want to be a schwa? We can all aspire to be a little less stressed, like our favourite English vowel. Available in a colourful floral design, or this stylised geometric option

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