linguistics

From phonetics to history, in his book Utahisms, BYU Linguistics Professor David Eddington reveals the roots of what is truly, uniquely Utah. We revisit our conversation from February 2023

On this episode we talk speech. We revisit our conversation with Valerie Fridland, professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno and author of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English.

On this episode we talk speech. We're joined by Valerie Fridland, professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno and author of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English.

Dr. Viorica Marian is one of the world’s leading researchers in psycholinguistics, and she joins us to discuss language, and her new book, 'The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds'.

When we told psychologist Joshua Jackson that we were going to ask him to have a discussion with an expert in tree genetics, he wasn’t sure how it would…