Podcasts about linguistic science

Dr. Erin Conwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Coordinator for the PhD program in Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience at North Dakota State University. Erin studies how children aged 6 and younger learn about the structure of their native language. She is conducting studies to determine how they understand what we say to them and how they produce words, sentences, and phrases that are understandable to us. She also examines how children's understanding and representation of language changes over the course of their first 6 years of life. Erin spends her free time hanging out with her husband and daughter. As a researcher of childhood development, she has often found herself closely observing and celebrating the milestones of her own daughter's development. In addition, Erin is an avid reader who typically makes it through 80-100 books per year. Her other hobbies include knitting and curling. She received her undergraduate degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT and her PhD in Cognitive and Linguistic Science from Brown University. Her dissertation research received the Peter W. Jusczyk Award. Afterward, Erin conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Erin is with us today to tell us about some of her experiences in life and science.

Show notes for Episode 46 Here are the show notes for Episode 46, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to Paul Kerswill, Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York about what has driven his interests in linguistics, but mostly about Multicultural London English: What it is How it developed How it's used now How it's been reported on (and why it's not ‘Jafaican') The discourses and metaphors around it What it might sound like in the future Paul's University of York page: https://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/paul-kerswill/  Some of the presentations and papers Paul Kerswill has produced on MLE: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/who-made-mle https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/jafaican  and the full paper of this workshop is here: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/93713/1/17_Kerswill_corr.pdf  Some links to early reporting on MLE, MEYD and more: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/search?q=MEYD  Some of Tony Thorne's reflections on MLE (he denies coining the term ‘MEYD' though!): https://language-and-innovation.com/?s=MLE  We talked about Accent Bias Britain too: https://accentbiasbritain.org/  Here's a York English Language Toolkit session on this too:  https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/accent-bias-britain  And previous episodes of Lexis in which we've discussed MLE: Shivonne Gates: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5leNPWkgQTMFzZ2UHRktnC?si=wh-4nKMmTpm7Q5on2x2wIQ  Matt Hunt Gardner: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7GBFEsLSNKYEpvX2yHIanO?si=_h-_-ROcRpm1llQLiLoSJw  And we talk about recent reporting on MLE in this episode's Lang in the News: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cdODEHoWHIWLfd0gh6xSw?si=pwjAKwHbRyea0jxUBugbiA  Contributors Lisa Casey  blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton  blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social  Jacky Glancey  Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler  Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA  Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys  Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

Show notes for Episode 40 Here are the show notes for Episode 40, a bumper edition in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to four linguists from the University of York about their York English Language Toolkit website and teacher CPD sessions. We talk to: Sam Hellmuth about the Toolkit and some of her favourite sessions in the past 10 years.  Tamar Keren-Portnoy about her child language research George Bailey about the Our Dialect app  Claire Childs about her work on perceptions of non-standard grammar The York English Language Toolkit website can be found here: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies  This year's sessions can be found here: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops  York English Language Toolkit on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YorkToolkit  Sam Hellmuth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samhellmuth  Claire Childs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/childs_claire  George Bailey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/grbails  University of York Department of Language and Linguistic Science: https://twitter.com/UoYLangLing  Contributors Lisa Casey  blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton  blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) BlueSky: @danc.bsky.social  Jacky Glancey  Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Jill Lavender Twitter: https://twitter.com/JillLavs  Matthew Butler  Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA  Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys  Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

Chris interviews Dr. Megan Figueroa, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. Contacts:  haswell247@gmail.com, LostInCitations@gmail.com

Professor Monika Schmid is Head of the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. She received her PhD at the University of Dusseldorf and speaks five languages; German, Dutch, English, French, and Spanish. Her main area of research is the loss of natural language among multilingual people. It's a problem she's experienced directly as a multi-linguist herself. KEY TAKEAWAYS We are never lost when it comes to languages. Even if you haven't used them in a while, all knowledge of the language is still inside your brain and can be accessed again with some practice. With every passing day, our ability will improve so much more that soon enough these forgotten phrases could come back into use. BEST MOMENTS “There has been quite a bit of research about children who are raised with more than one language about the fact that they are able to take on the outlook of other people have sort of more, there tends to be sort of measures of empathy and measures of understanding. Children who grow up with more than one language tend to do better on that. There's a really interesting thing.” “We need to, particularly when we train people, when we train students to work in a multilingual environment. You know, we have to teach them these kinds of things. We have to make them aware of the difficulties and pitfalls of intercultural communication.” “German has a lot of kind of particles that are used to sort of slightly change that doesn't actually have any meaning as such, but sort of, are used to change the tone of the of the message.” “Brain handles language in a way that is different from any other knowledge that we have because I mean, it stands to reason that you forget things and stuff if you don't use it. However, there seems to be and we know this from other experiments, all the languages that we have in our brain are interconnected. And so basically whenever you use any language, all the other links all the knowledge of other languages that you have receives a little bit of simulation and that seems to be enough to prevent it deteriorating. What does deteriorate is your ability to quickly get out it.” “The words in all the languages that you have the words that mean the same thing are situated quite closely to each other and sometimes you reach for them because we talk at a rate of five words per second. So you have to make these decisions very quickly and sometimes you just take the wrong one.” “We don't lose the language. We don't lose the knowledge. What we lose is the access to that knowledge, just sort of sort of nice, fluent way of getting it out.” ABOUT THE HOST Levent Yildizgoren, the author of 'Good Business in any Language', is an award-winning entrepreneur, localisation professional, and a PRINCE2 qualified project manager. CONTACT METHOD Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leventyildizgoren/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/yildizgoren IG: https://www.instagram.com/levent.yildizgoren/ ABOUT THE GUEST Professor Monika Schmid is Head of the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. CONTACT METHOD https://www.linkedin.com/in/monika-s-schmid-1538378a/ https://languageattrition.org/ VALUABLE RESOURCES Do you have any questions about translation, localization, or international growth? Visit TTC website: https://ttcwetranslate.com/ Are you curious about how ready you are to go global? Take TTC wetranslate's Scorecard: https://global.scoreapp.com/ Take your business global with the 5-step LINGO modal! Purchase 'Good Business in any Language' on Amazon now: https://cutt.ly/2ORR

Minn Htut Kyaw is an architect who writes about Burmese linguistics and Physics on Facebook. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/opinions-and-thoughts/message

Dr. Erin Conwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Coordinator for the PhD program in Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience at North Dakota State University. She received her undergraduate degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT and her PhD in Cognitive and Linguistic Science from Brown University. Her dissertation research received the Peter W. Jusczyk Award. Afterward, Erin conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Erin is with us today to tell us about some of her experiences in life and science.

  This episode, we start with a little experiment and get more interactive. Let us know what country you thought the music originated in at @MOTcast with the hashtag #motesol . I’ll put up the results on www.mastersoftesol.com http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/13_-_What_the_way_you_speak_says_about_you_-_Sociolinguistics_with_Andrew_Euan_MacFarlan.mp3 Andrew Ewan MacFarlane is a lecturer at University of York in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science […]

Northern accents at work: Trainee teachers are under pressure to speak the Queen's English. Laurie Taylor talks to Alex Barrata, lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, & author of a study which finds that certain regional accents are frowned upon in a profession that would normally oppose discrimination. They're joined by Paul Kerswill, Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. Sensible drinkers: the drinking discourses of real ale enthusiasts. Thomas Thurnell-Read, Lecturer in Cultural Sociology at the University of Loughborough, explores the way in which some drinkers construct themselves as sociable and self controlled, in contrast to their hedonistic and unruly counterparts Producer: Jayne Egerton.

The object of this lecture is to demonstrate that Ghanaian anthroponymy and cloth names are important channels for ‘speaking’ for and about Ghanaian society. With respect to anthroponyms, I, Samuel Obeng, argue that unlike in Western societies where children usually take their father’s last name, in African societies, children have their own names. Names are used to achieve a number of communicative and socio-political goals and events such as: showing human relationships and social roles; revealing Ghanaians’ quest for truth and meaning in life; showing the polarity in human behavior; pointing to the society’s hopes, dreams and aspirations; and showing the Ghanaian perception of cosmic elements. Names may reflect the geographical environment (hydronyms, toponyms, vegetation, agricultural activity, wildlife, as well as the physical and geomorphologic phenomena) of the one’s birthplace. The circumstances surrounding one’s birth such as the day of the week, time of day, the order of birth, political or religious significance of the birth date, the season of the year, and even the attitude of the parents at the time of birth may be caught up Ghanaian onomasiology. The specific circumstances relating to a family as well as the gender of a child all play significant roles in the naming process. Some names are based on human behavior, occupation, and the name recipient’s physical characteristics. Others are derived from epic sources and may be theophoric because they reveal attributes and epithets of gods and goddesses. Names in Ghanaian society are perceived as important indicators of expectations and of the bearers’ behavior and may act as pointers to the name-bearers’ past, present, and future accomplishments. They reveal entire ethnic group’s experiences, and construct the name-bearer since they have the power to create an attitude in those who hear it even before they meet the name-bearer. Finally, there is a great deal of intertextualization and indirectness in Ghanaian onomasiology. The names’ inter-text, abstractness and indirectness respond to face-threatening acts, immunize the name-givers against any form of attacks (verbal or physical), and help avoid direct confrontation. Indirect and abstract names tend to be proverbial and are conventionalized because the public is aware of their pragmatic import. Given the acceptance of oblique communication in Ghanaian society, expressing one’s feeling via obscurity is not considered artificial or insincere. In sum, Ghanaian names are context-sensitive, anchored in a socio-cultural discourse, and are impossible to interpret without reference to, and an understanding of, the overall context of the situation. Samuel Obeng, is Professor of Linguistics and the Director of Indiana University’s African Studies Program. He obtained his PhD in Language and Linguistic Science (phonetics and pragmatics) at the University of York in England (United Kingdom). His research interests are in pragmatics and institutional discourse analysis, socio-phonetics and phonology, and the documentation of African languages, especially those that are endangered. He has published 25 books and edited volumes and over one hundred (100) papers in refereed journals.