Podcasts – linglabpodcast

https://ncsu.edu/linguistics/docs/audio/linglab_episode7.mp3 On this episode of Linglab we talk to Caroline Myrick, a Sociology and Sociolinguistics doctoral student at N.C. State, about her work compiling a dictionary on Saban English, a variety of English spoken on the island of Saba. Joining us in the lab is Teddy Johnson, Caroline’s co-writer and a local Saban, who initially […]

https://ncsu.edu/linguistics/docs/audio/linglab_episode6.mp3 On this episode of Linglab, we’re doing something a little different. Usually I look at other people’s work in linguistics and talk about their larger implications. But this time, we’re going to talk about my work and some of what I believe are the larger implications of that work. In this episode, we discuss […]

Episode 5: “It Won’t Cost Much. Just Your Voice!” https://ncsu.edu/linguistics/docs/audio/linglab_episode5.mp3 There’s this scene in The Little Mermaid. Ariel is considering a deal with Ursula, the sea witch. Ursula is agreeing to give her legs so she can walk on land and be where the people are. But there is a catch. “It won’t cost much,” […]

  On this episode of Linglab we talk to Amy Hemmeter, a Masters student in Linguistics at N.C. State University, about her research on social perceptions of vocal fry. Vocal fry, like uptalk and quotative like, has been receiving a lot of pushback in the media. It has become a punchline in a media that […]

Episode 2: What’s in a Name? On this episode of Linglab we talk to Caroline Myrick, a doctoral student and linguistic student at N.C. State about her work with Saban English, a variety of English spoken on the small Dutch island of Saba. We also discuss how her work ties into a larger debate that […]