Word to the Whys

Welcome New Listeners!

A brief welcome to our new listeners. Find the transcript here: https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/Welcome

Why we do Second Language Acquisition

Meg Grant talks to Félix Desmeules-Trudel about why we do Language Acquisition, and why everybody has an accent! Find the transcript here: https://sites.google.com/view/w

Why we do Pragmatics

Meg Grant talks to Nancy Hedberg about why and how we do Pragmatics, and the real meaning of "Black Lives Matter"! Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington

Why we do Semantics

Julie Doner talks to Ai Taniguchi about why we do Semantics, and why linguists are more interested in words like "every" than whether cereal is soup! Intro and Outro mus

Why we do Language Acquisition

Nathan Sanders talks to Catherine Anderson about what babies & children know about language, and how we can tell what they know! Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language"

Why we do Psycholinguistics

Catherine Anderson talks to Meg Grant about why and how we do Psycholinguistics, whether we even need psycholinguistics in a world with neural imaging, and why your prof

Why we do Phonology

Daniel Currie Hall and Tim Mills talk about what's interesting about Phonology. Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org Find t

Why we do Syntax

Tim Mills talks to Julie Doner about why and how we do Syntax, whether grammar might be in human DNA, and whether there's a single "right" model of syntax. Intro and Outr

Why we do Phonetics

Meg Grant talks to Nathan Sanders about why we do Phonetics, and how signed languages have phonetics even though they don't have sound! Intro and Outro music is "Alien L

Why we do Morphology

Bronwyn Bjorkman and Catherine Anderson talk about what's interesting about Morphology, and why it's hard to figure out the past participle for "dive". Intro and Outro mu