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194: Auslan Advocacy (featuring Drisana Levitzke-Gray)

Auslan is one of Australia’s most popular signed languages. But how many of us know it? And what...

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193: The Bilingual Advantage

Speaking another language is good for your brain — at least that's what we've heard. But some new...

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192: Linguistic Movies

It's Oscars time, and the film about Alan Turing "The Imitation Game" is in contention for best...

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191: Ape Accents

Do apes have accents? A recent news story claims that chimps learn a "new language" when they...

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190: Rap Linguistics (featuring Darin Flynn)

Rap is the music of the street. And now it’s on campus. Linguist Darin Flynn has created a...

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189: Words of the Year 2014

It's a new year, and that means it's time for our Word of the Year round-up. What words tripped...

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188: The Language Myth (featuring Vyvyan Evans)

How do children learn language so quickly? For decades, the prevailing view has been that they're...

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187: Emoji

Emoji. You know them, you use them — maybe more than you'd like to admit. But where do they come...

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186: No Puns in China

China's media office is cracking down on puns. And not because they're terrible — they claim that...

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185: Listener Questions

We get questions from our many listeners. And we have answers. Do the languages of the world form...

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184: We Do Language (featuring Anne Charity Hudley)

There's more than one way to speak English. But too often, kids who speak other varieties of...

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183: The End of Cursive

Penmanship is becoming a lost art. In our age of keyboards and smartphones, fewer and fewer of us...

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182: Machine Translation

Translation is hard. So when computers try to translate text automatically, the results can be...

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181: Is Aussie Slang Dying Out?

Is Australian slang carking it? Dying, that is. One lexicographer is seeing fewer Aussie terms...

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180: Bad English (featuring Ammon Shea)

Are you annoyed by grammar purists? Do prescriptive pedants pester you with trivial issues of...

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179: Onomatopoeia

Boom, crash, and beep. These words are onomatopoeic; they sound kind of like the thing they...

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178: Village Sign Languages

Linguists are discovering signed languages in unexpected places. Created where there are high...

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177: Speed Reading

Is speed reading for real? Old techniques and new apps promise to help you read at phenomenal...

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176: Language Myths (featuring Karen Stollznow)

Does Bigfoot use language? Can your brain understand a message if it's backwards? We don't always...

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175: Mother Tongues

Everyone knows it's a good idea to get kids to learn a foreign language. But lots of Australian...

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