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Top Tracks
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45: Tracing languages back before recorded history
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01: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace
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02: Pronouns. Little words, big jobs
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03: Arrival of the Linguists - Review of the Alien Linguistics Movie
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47: The happy fun big adjective episode
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18: Translating the untranslatable
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20: Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary
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34: Emoji are Gesture Because Internet
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42: What makes a language “easy”? It’s a hard question
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60: That’s the kind of episode it’s - clitics
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08: People who make dictionaries
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33: Why spelling is hard — but also hard to change
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09: The bridge between words and sentences - Constituency
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56: Not NOT a negation episode
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66: Word order, we love
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41: This time it gets tense - The grammar of time
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46: Hey, no problem, bye! The social dance of phatics
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40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane
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04: Inside the Word of the Year vote
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67: What it means for a language to be official
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32: You heard about it but I was there - Evidentiality
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17: Vowel Gymnastics
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15: Talking and thinking about time
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51: Small talk, big deal
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61: Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta
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62: Cool things about scales and implicature
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74: Who questions the questions?
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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions
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23: When nothing means something
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19: Sentences with baggage - Presuppositions
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88: No such thing as the oldest language
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36: Villages, gifs, and children: Researching signed languages in real-world contexts with Lynn Hou
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39: How to rebalance a lopsided conversation
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35: Putting sounds into syllables is like putting toppings on a burger
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28: How languages influence each other - Hannah Gibson interview on Swahili, Rangi & Bantu languages
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05: Colour words around the world and inside your brain
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07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language
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14: Getting into, up for, and down with prepositions
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21: What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles
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79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!
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81: The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries
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29: The verb is the coat rack that the rest of the sentence hangs on
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30: Why do we gesture when we talk?
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22: This, that and the other thing - Determiners
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16: Learning parts of words - Morphemes and the wug test
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37: Smell words, both real and invented
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38: Many ways to talk about many things - Plurals, duals and more
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43: The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod
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06: All the sounds in all the languages - The International Phonetic Alphabet
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59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind
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