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Tagged with “linguistics” (92)

  1. Steven Pinker: “The Stuff of Thought” | Talks at Google

    Steven Pinker is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition and has authored ten books, including: The Language Instinct How the Mind Works The Blank Slate The Stuff of Thought The Better Angels of Our Nature and most recently, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.

    http://stevenpinker.com

    The Stuff of Thought full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpetDxIEMU

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  2. Deciphering the mysterious encyclopedia known as the Codex Seraphinianus | Public Radio International

    This week, The World in Words podcast tries to figure out how an illegible book with no clear meaning became something of a classic.

    http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-05-31/cracking-codex-seraphinianus

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    Tagged with codex seraphinianus. code deciphering language linguistics

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  3. Why we all need a little respect for the word ‘moist’ | Public Radio International

    It works so hard, for so little recognition.

    http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-11-27/why-we-all-need-little-respect-word-moist

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  4. Things That Come Out of Your Mouth | Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

    Part two of our oral fixation: How to talk to your doctor, marine regurgitations, and texting. The panel:

    Frank Delaney, novelist, podcast host, and “the world’s most eloquent man.” May or may not have had untoward interactions with a horse.

    John McWhorter, Columbia University linguist and host of the Lexicon Valley podcast. Working on his 20th book.

    Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, Columbia professor of surgery and TV host; knows how to treat his own bee stings.

    http://tmsidk.com/2016/11/things-that-come-out-of-your-mouth/

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  5. Lexicographer Ben Zimmer on the etymology of taking something with a grain of salt.

    A phrase with roots in Ancient Rome has confounded English speakers for centuries.

    Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield discuss the etymology and history of the phrase with a grain of salt with Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer

    http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2016/03/lexicographer_ben_zimmer_on_the_etymology_of_taking_something_with_a_grain.html

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    Tagged with language linguistics etymology history salt

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  6. Science Goes to the Movies: ‘Arrival’ - Science Friday

    Aliens have landed on Earth. Where do they come from, and what do they want? Finding the answer depends on the combined skills of linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner). In a story that spans the personal to the planetary, how much does Arrival get right? Xenolinguist Sheri Wells-Jensen and Doug Vakoch of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) International discuss.

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    Tagged with language linguistics science movies arrival extraterrestrials

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  7. Episode 265: Universal Grammar 2 (featuring Dan Everett and Lynne Murphy) – Talk the Talk

    The biggest idea in linguistics is back on the table.

    Is there such a thing as the Universal Grammar? Do you have to have a human brain to learn language, or is learning a language just like learning anything else? And are one man’s insights into Amazonian languages sufficient to demolish this theoretical edifice?

    Linguists Dan Everett and Lynne Murphy talk to Daniel, Ben, and Kylie on this episode of Talk the Talk.

    http://talkthetalkpodcast.com/265-universal-grammar-2/

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    Tagged with language linguistics universal grammar dan everett lynne murphy

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  8. Episode 167: The Language Hoax (featuring John McWhorter) – Talk the Talk

    Does the world look different if you speak a different language?

    Can we tell what someone’s culture is like, just from the structure of their syntax?

    For linguists, the answers are no. And no.

    John McWhorter is the author of “The Language Hoax”, and he tells Daniel and Ben why the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is the most popular bad idea in linguistics on this episode of Talk the Talk.

    http://talkthetalkpodcast.com/167-the-language-hoax/

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  9. The invisible language of nursery rhymes, on this episode of Lexicon Valley.

    John McWhorter makes linguistic sense of seemingly arbitrary children’s verse.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2016/09/the_invisible_language_of_nursery_rhymes_on_this_episode_of_lexicon_valley.html

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  10. Episode 75: Mixed Languages and Scrambled Eggs | The History of English Podcast

    In this episode, we continue our look at the gradual emergence of Middle English from the linguistic rubble left in the wake of the Norman Conquest. English remained fractured and broken, and foreign influences continued to come in. We explore the changing language of the Peterborough Chronicle. We also examine how a merchant’s failed attempt to buy some eggs shaped the history of the English language.

    http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2016/03/02/episode-75-mixed-languages-and-scrambled-eggs/

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