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Best podcast there is about linguistics!

“Lauren: We tend to only talk about the absence of something when it’s relevant. This is part of why negation is an additive thing to the grammar. We think about the positive version of the utterance as somehow being more default. Gretchen: It’s actually kind of similar to how we think about numbers. Like, “one” and “two” and “three” were invented a long time before the number “zero” was invented. Even though before you have one of something, you have zero of it, but it wasn’t being commented on in a numerical way. It might’ve been being commented on in a negative way because languages do have negation, but it wasn’t being commented on as “I have zero dinosaurs.” Lauren: Why negation is something that’s kept mathematicians and philosophers and people doing logic and linguists entertained, and many other people entertained, for such a long time and why we’re giving it its own whole episode. Gretchen: “We’re not NOT doing a negation episode.””

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Excerpt from Episode 56 of Lingthusiasm: Not NOT a negation episode

Listen to the episode, read the full transcript, or check out more links about syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

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How to teach yourself linguistics online for free

Wish you were enrolled in an intro linguistics class this semester? Starting a linguistics major and looking for extra help? Trying to figure out whether you should study linguistics and what comes after?  Whether you’re just trying to grasp the basics of linguistics or you’re trying to construct a full online linguistics course, here’s a comprehensive list of free linguistics websites, podcasts, videos, blogs, and other resources from around the internet: 

Linguistics Podcasts

Specific episodes:

The International Phonetic Alphabet and vowels

Constituency

Gricean Maxims and presuppositions

Kids These Days aren’t ruining language

Learning languages linguistically

Phonemes and palatalization

Prepositions, determiners, verbs

Morphemes and the wug test

Why do we gesture when we talk?

Syllables

Podcasts in general:

Lingthusiasm

Because Language

Vocal Fries

The History of English Podcast

Spectacular Vernacular

Linguistics Videos

Modular topics:

NativLang (cartoons)

The Ling Space

Tom Scott’s Language Files

Arika Okrent (whiteboard videos)

Mike Mena (classic sociolinguistics papers)

Structured video series like an online course:  

Crash Course Linguistics (see also this list of companion links for each of the Crash Course videos) 

Introduction to Linguistics (TrevTutor)

Another intro linguistics series (DS Bigham)

Phonology, Mathematical linguistics, Syntax (TrevTutor)

Another syntax series following the chapter structure of a free online syntax textbook (Caroline Heycock)

The Virtual Linguistics Campus at Marburg University

“Miracles of Human Language” (on Coursera from Leiden University)

Blog posts

General

How much do I need to know before taking intro linguistics? (Spoiler: not much) 

28 tips for doing better in your intro linguistics course

How to find a topic for your linguistics essay or research paper

For typesetting linguistics symbols: What is LaTeX and why do linguists love it? (with sample LaTeX doc to download and modify).

An open access intro linguistics textbook, all freely available online

Further linguistics resources about specific areas, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition (first/second), historical linguistics, neurolinguistics, prescriptivism. 

Phonetics & Phonology

How to make your own paper model of the larynx

Teaching phonetics using lollipops

How to remember the IPA vowel chart

How to remember the IPA consonant chart

IPA transcription practice

A detailed explanation of sonorants, obstruents, and sonority

A very elaborate Venn diagram of English phonological features

The basics of how Optimality Theory works, with coffee analogy

Allophones of /t/, explained with internet gifs

Several good visualizations and explanations of the vocal tract

How to type IPA on your phone (Android and iOS) 

Various ways to type IPA on a computer

Morphology & Syntax

Morphological typology cartoons

So you asked the internet how to draw syntax trees. Here’s why you’re confused.

Types of trees: a sentence is an S, a sentence is an IP, a sentence is a TP

A step-by-step guide to drawing a syntax tree, with gifs

Distributed Morphology

Garden path sentences: how they work, some examples

Structural ambiguity and understanding people in Ipswich

How to draw trees on a computer (TreeForm and phpSyntaxTree) 

Pronoun typology and “the gay fanfiction problem”

The solution to violent example sentences: Pokemon

Semantics & Pragmatics

The difference between epistemic and deontic, necessity and possibility (with bonus modals as Hogwarts houses)

Why learn semantics? Comebacks to annoying people.

Presuppositions, implicature and entailment, and more presuppositions in Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Gricean maxims in Welcome to Night Vale

Scalar implicature and a duck gif

Giving a shit about Negative Polarity Items, NPIs explained using Mean Girls references, and a follow-up on Free Choice Items

The lambda calculus for absolute dummies

The Lambda Calculator (software for practising in Heim & Kratzer style)

Teaching linguistics

Linguistics resources for high school teachers

Teaching linguistics to 9-14 year olds

On writing an IB extended essay in linguistics (& follow-up)

IPA Bingo

IPA Jeopardy and IPA Hangman

Practising syntax trees using cards and string/straws

Find a linguistics olympiad near you!

Editing linguistics Wikipedia articles instead of writing a final paper that no one but the prof will read (see also wikiedu.org)

Academic/career advice

Should you go to grad school in linguistics? Maybe

Figuring out if you actually want to go to linguistics grad school

How to decide which linguistics grad school to go to

How to look for linguistics undergrad programs

How to interact with someone who’s just given a talk

An extensive list of undergrad and/or student-friendly conferences - apply to one near you!

Advice for linguistics profs on increasing enrollment and supporting non-academic careers

Linguistics jobs - a series about careers outside academia

Languages

Linguistic approaches to language learning resource roundup

Will linguistics help with language learning? / Will learning a second language help with linguistics?

The problem with “economically useful” as a reason for language learning

Further link roundups

This list not enough? Try these further linkposts: 

A very long list of linguistics movies, documentaries, and TV show episodes

A list of books (fiction and nonfiction) about linguistics

A comprehensive list of language and linguistics podcasts, from Superlinguo 

A very long list of linguistics YouTube channels and other free online videos about linguistics 

20 linguistics blogs I recommend following

How to explain linguistics to your friends and family this holiday season

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as if we hadn't had enough, that sam kerr and kristie vacation?? that preath photo holding hands?? (very creepy stalking btw) the gays keep winning

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shout out to those who dare to study phonetics, once you become aware of the speech mechanism, you can't go back to living a normal life

“Gretchen: So. Vowels. Lauren: Human voices are amazing. Like, the fact that we communicate by speech is this amazing process that’s basically that humans are giant meat tubes, and we make air go through those tubes to make sounds. But that’s disgusting, and that’s why we call it phonetics instead of meat tubes. Gretchen: Meat tube science? Lauren: The science of meat tubes and air! So, we kind of push air through, and then we have different parts of our vocal tract, so our – what we think of as voice box and our mouth, and all the things in our mouth, to kind of change – Gretchen: And especially our tongue! Lauren: – especially our tongue! – changes the way the air flows, and that changes the quality of the sound. And so all of this that we’re saying now is based on that outflow of air, but it’s how we stop and change and shape the air that makes different sounds! Gretchen: So, you have a mouth. You’re listening to this, you’ve got a mouth. You’ve got a tongue in it. That’s kind of weird. Your tongue has a certain amount of space that it can move within your mouth. So, you start from behind your teeth – your tongue can be kind of up there. Lauren: Nnn… if you are not pulling funny faces to yourself on the train, you’re not doing this right. Gretchen: I’m pulling funny faces right now, I can’t even talk ‘cause I’m trying to act it out! You can go down a bit, so you can go down below your lower teeth. Lauren: It has a really great effect. Gretchen: You can go back – go back in the kind of, like, dentist move, like, “Open your mouth as wide as you can and say aaaah!” Lauren: Aaaah! Gretchen: Aaaah! And then you can go kind of back up as far – like, to the top of the roof of your mouth at the back – and you have it up here. You know, maybe you can hear me sounding kind of weird, that’s ‘cause I’m trying to act it out. You should act it out! You’re sitting here anyway, you’ve got the time, what else are you doing with it? Don’t answer that. Lauren: Just let a big – especially if you’re in public, just let a big bunch of air go and go, “Eeeaaaaayyooooauuugh.” Kind of. Move that tongue around. Gretchen: Eeeaaaauuuooo. And you can go backwards, too, you can go, “Aaaeeeeiiii.” Lauren: Hours of fun. Gretchen: Hours of fun! What’s cool about this is that the vowels – we think about them as distinct, like there’s this vowel and there’s that vowel, there’s /i/ and there’s /a/, but they’re on a continuum. And when you drop your jaw in a vowel position, you can sliiiide down from one vowel to the next. Or you can slide back up when you raise your jaw again. Lauren: Eeeaaaaaiiiieeee. Gretchen: Or ooooouuuaaaaaa. Lauren: That was a good one. Gretchen: Yeah! Yeah, that was a different one. So you can do “aaaoooouuuu.” And you can also slide front and back, so you can go “iiiieeeeeaaaa.” Lauren: Iiiiieeeeeaaaa? It sounds like I’m asking a question.”

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Excerpt from Episode 17 of Lingthusiasm: Vowel Gymnastics

Listen to the episode, read the full transcript, or check out more links about phonetics. 

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that sam kerr update?? that preath update?? rose and rosie's new video AND PODCAST?? gayest week!

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hello,

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