Anna and Amber finally get some much-needed linguistics help from Dr. Chris Donlay. We talk about his unconventional academic path and his work recording and studying endangered languages! Plus, he schools us on how language shapes our perception of the world, how old spoken language *might* be, and what to do with a linguistics degree.
Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Ep 81
In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.
Links
What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)
Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)
Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?
Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Ep 81
In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.
Links
What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)
Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)
Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?