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    The Vocal Fries

    The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people’s speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk. Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod

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    Latest Episodes:
    Performing the News Oct 14, 2024

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Elia Powers, Associate Professor of Journalism at Towson University, about his book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality.

    • 5 Podcasts for Word Nerds NY Times
    • Why Does Trump Do That Weird Capitalization Thing? HuffPost (sometimes Gillon is misspelled as Gillion, as per uzh)

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    How Schools Make Race Sep 23, 2024

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, assistant professor at UCLA in the Departments of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Education, about her book How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America, coming out October 1.

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    Dogwhistles and Other Fig Leaves Aug 23, 2024

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Henderson, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, about his newest book (with Dr Elin Mccready), Signaling without Saying: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistles.

    • Botanical taxonomy
    • Common names of birds

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    Writing Beyond Writing Jul 15, 2024

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, Writing Beyond Writing, what writing is, his journey to caring about Endangered Alphabets and his favourite scripts.

    • Nuxalk album
    • Red Bubble
    • Insufferable Twits

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    Language City Jun 24, 2024

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Ross Perlin, co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, about his new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.

    • Language Map of NYC
    • ASL at the NHL

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    Uneffing the Binary May 14, 2024

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Kris Aric Knisley and Eric Louis Russell about their book Redoing linguistic worlds: Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender pluralities, gender, critical linguistics, trans linguistics, and uneffing all things.

    • Sperm Whale "phonetic alphabet"

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    Gorsh! We All Have Accents Apr 15, 2024

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Drs Rusty Barrett, Professor of Linguistics, Jennifer Cramer, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky, and Kevin B. McGowan, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the University of Kentucky Phonetics Lab (all at at the University of Kentucky), about their book English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States.

    • New language in Australia
    • Chaos/order muppets

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    The Funnest Episode Mar 12, 2024

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Curzan about her book Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words.

    • Trump's brain

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    Braillians Feb 12, 2024

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Sheri Wells-Jensen, Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, about her chapter Cognition, Sensory Input, and Linguistics : A Possible Language for Blind Aliens in the new book Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language, blind aliens, how languages can be, and her appreciation of the movie Arrival.

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    Linguistic Discrimination against Uyghurs in China Jan 16, 2024

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Lee Moore about the linguistic situation in China, particularly the hostile environment towards Uyghurs.
    He is also the author of "A dyslexic learning Chinese".

    • WOTY23

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    Werthwhile Language Dec 11, 2023

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Suzanne Wertheim about her book, The Inclusive Language Field Guide: 6 Simple Principles for Avoiding Painful Mistakes and Communicating Respectfully.

    • pentl'atch named a living language

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    Don't Drown the Cat Nov 20, 2023

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Rebecca Roache about her book, For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun.

    • Great British Bake Off

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    We All Country Oct 16, 2023

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Bryce McCleary, Lecturer in Linguistics at Rice University, about his paper “'We All Country': Region, Place, and Community Language among Oklahoma City Drag Performers".
    Australia referendum

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    Shuffling off This Mortal Coil Sep 11, 2023

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Poppy Mardall, the founder and chair of Poppy’s, about the Dead Good Words campaign around dehumanizing and euphemistic language about death.

    • Calm History podcast
    • West Virginia University shutting down World Languages
    • WVU Finances
    • Jonah Katz

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    Talking Tamarra Aug 03, 2023

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Felicity Meakins, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland, and Briony Barr, a visual-conceptual-teaching artist and co-founder of the Scale Free Network, about their book Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Territory, why termites are important to Gurindji people, and why they wanted to work on this project.

    • Ken knows how to f


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    Mental Fries/Vocal Floss Jul 10, 2023

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Erin McCarthy, Editor-in-Chief of Mental Floss, about her new book (with the Mental Floss team), Mental Floss Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words: A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising Etymologies

    • Silver Lining of pandemic

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    A Braille as Old as Time Jun 20, 2023

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille.
    Sources:

    • https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000061
    • http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/ling327syllabus.pdf
    • https://news2.rice.edu/2019/07/23/rice-study-seeks-to-improve-braille-literacy-2/
    • Kleege, Georgina. 2006. "Visible braille/invisible blindness." Journal
      of Visual Culture, 5 (2): 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412906066909
    • https://pbs.jhu.edu/directory/marina-bedny/

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    Like, Literally, Dude May 15, 2023

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Valerie Fridland about her new book, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English, how to pronounce Nevada, and all things language.

    • Charles Boberg's article on 'foreign (a)'
    • Words with no English equivalents


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    Figgy, Gills and Bobby Apr 17, 2023

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    Dr. Bob Kennedy is back! Carrie and Megan pick his brain about all things language in sports.
    He shoots, he scores!
    Intro discussion:

    • video
    • Vox article

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    Don't be an *, be a 🐈 Mar 13, 2023

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc.
    Whale vocal fry:

    • npr
    • wapo
    • nytimes

    Background on phonic lips

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    The People's Tongue Feb 13, 2023

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    Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language.

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    The Freeze Peach Paradox Jan 30, 2023

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Dr. Dennis Baron, Emeritus Professor of English at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about his newest book You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech.

    What do moos mean?

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    Dr G Squared Dec 12, 2022

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Geneva Smitherman/Dr. G about her book My Soul Look Back In Wonder, narrative essays about her race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s.
    Quebec economic immigrants

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    Bonus WOTY 2022 Dec 08, 2022

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    Example bonus episode from November 2022.
    We talk WOTY22!
    Full episode coming soon

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    Brasse pa lamèrd Nov 07, 2022

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien Guillory-Chatman, members of the first Wikitongues cohort, about Kouri-Vini, aka Louisiana Creole, a French Creole spoken mainly in Louisiana.
    Collins' WOTY22
    A discussion of Ukrainian to English transliteration
    Dictionary.com's new words
    Learn Kouri-Vini

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    Cruz Control Oct 17, 2022

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper "Ted Cruz Cucks Again", the origins and meaning of "cuck", white supremacy, antisemitism, and the alt-right.
    Check out The Story of Woman podcast Carrie mentions in the intro

    • The Authority Gap
    • Morality of Abortion

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    Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness Sep 19, 2022

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, about his new book Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness.
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    The Duct Tape of Language Aug 29, 2022

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    You asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About/Vocal Fries crossover event is here.
    Carrie and Megan talk with Sarah Marshall about bimbos, vocal fry, the word "like" and many other things.
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    Bulls, apes, bats and chickens Aug 08, 2022

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t".

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    The Rickford Files Jul 11, 2022

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. John Rickford, emeritus professor at Stanford, about his memoir, Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language, growing up in Guyana, moving to the United States, and his love of linguistics and Black Talk.
    Fifth anniversary sign up

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    Make Grammar Cool Again Jun 13, 2022

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Andreea Calude and Laurie Bauer about their new textbook Mysteries of English Grammar: A Guide to Complexities of the English Language and their edited volume Questions about Language: What Everybody Should Know about Language in the 21st Century.
    This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit.
    Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription:

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    Redemption of code expires on August 31, 2022, midnight EDT

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    Reawakening Pentlatch May 30, 2022

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    Carrie and Megan talk with the Working Pentlatch Revitalization team (Mathew Andreatta, Jessie Recalma, Chief Michael Recalma, and Dr Su Urbanczyk) about their work on reawakening Pentlatch, a Coast Salish language on Vancouver Island.
    This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit.
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    John Mary Bill Sue May 16, 2022

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Hadas Kotek, a linguist at Apple, about two of her papers: Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? and Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences.
    See the two graphs Hadas had us look at here.
    This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit.
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    Tongues May 02, 2022

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    Carrie and Megan talk with two of the editors of Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language, Eufemia Fantetti, Professor of English at Humber College, and Ayelet Tsabari, who teaches creative writing at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and University of King’s College, about their new book, writing in English as a second language, Molisan, Hebrew, and Yemeni Arabic.

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    FindingFive Apr 04, 2022

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Noah Nelson, trustee of FindingFive. FindingFive is a tech nonprofit that enables academic researchers to create and run online behavioral research studies in the cloud!
    This is a sponsored episode, where you learn all about how FindingFive works!
    You can get a complimentary one-month Pro subscription that comes with premium features and 100 free participants for the redeemed monthly cycle:

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    Hyper Specific Genres We Love Apr 01, 2022

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    Renee and Natalia are back with a conversation about some of the books they love that fall into super niche genres. For example, Natalia has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books about bananas and Renee will never say no to a thriller with an unlikeable 20-something woman protagonist who works in a startup. Tune in to hear all the weird things they’re both into.

    Books Mentioned:

    Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

    How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

    Diamond Head by Cecily Wong (interview here)

    Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

    Black Sun & Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (interview here)

    The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

    Lobizona & Cazadora by Romina Garber (interview here)

    Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

    She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

    Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

    Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoka Matsuda

    Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

    Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

    We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper

    She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

    My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams

    Self-Care by Leigh Stein

    The Assistants by Camille Perri

    The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

    Smile and Look Pretty by Amanda Pellegrino

    A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin (interview here)

    Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster

    The Power of Knitting by Loretta Napoleoni (review here)

    Bananas, Beaches and Bases by Cynthia Enloe

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    Save the Saguaro 🌵 Mar 28, 2022

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessica Hernandez, a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest, about her new book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science.

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    Myanmar? I Hardly Know Her! Feb 21, 2022

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Katie Craig about Myanmar/Burma, the languages spoken there and her organization Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners, which works with local communities to develop and celebrate these languages – and the people who speak them – in developing quality, locally relevant education in order to preserve languages and ways of life as well as to promote equality and social cohesion.
    #GLAD22
    Myanmar Dance Workout Video during the coup (action starts around 1:45)

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    Employing Linguistics Feb 14, 2022

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    In this special (kind of bonus) episode, Dr Anna Marie Trester and Sophie Henry talk about Anna Marie's new book Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking about Careers for Linguists.
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    Chocolate City Jan 31, 2022

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessi Grieser about her new book, The Black Side of the River, DC, Tennessee and the way Black residents of Anacostia talk about their neighborhood and themselves.

    Galician songs here and here

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    Galicious Jan 10, 2022

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Enrico Torre about Galician and other languages spoken in Spain and why they matter.

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    Mara Effin Wilson Dec 06, 2021

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Mara Wilson about her voice, her neurodivergence, and the IPA.

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    All Your Meme Are Belong To Us Nov 08, 2021

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Sylvia Sierra about her new book, Millennials Talking Media: Creating Intertextual Identities in Everyday Conversation, intertextuality, memes, and the tropes embedded in internet memes.

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    Everybody Wants to Rural the World Oct 25, 2021

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    Carrie and Megan talk to Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King (among others), about his YA books set in Appalachia, why he doesn't use eye-dialect, and why representation matters.

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    Snap, Crackle, K-Pop Sep 27, 2021

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Joyhanna Yoo Garza, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, about K-Pop, semiotics, cultural appropriation, and Ali Wong. (Buy her book here.)

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    The Language of Love Aug 31, 2021

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Natalyn Daniels, Clery Liaison at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Rose Wilkerson, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, about growing up on the Navajo Nation, transferring to Berkeley from community college, sociolinguistics, academic English, standard language ideology and the language of love.

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    Me Myself and AI Aug 02, 2021

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the co-authors, and the dangers of large language models and NLP.

    We also briefly discuss Lord Digby Jones and his classism and Alex Scott's amazing comeback.

    Deborah Raji's MIT Technology Review paper.

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    Maintenance Baes Jul 12, 2021

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    Megan and Carrie talk with the cohosts of Maintenance Phase, Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon, about wellness, diet culture, fatness and how not to be an asshole to fat people.

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    I Ain't Messing With You Jun 28, 2021

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Deion Broxton about his Baltimore accent, his career and speech therapy, and going viral.

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    Cult Classic Jun 14, 2021

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Amanda Montell about her newest book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, out June 15, 2021, how cults use language to entice and keep followers and why cults fascinate us.

    Check out her podcast Sounds Like a Cult.

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    Accent-uate Your Performance May 31, 2021

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Erik Singer, dialect coach to the stars, about what dialect coaches do, how to become one, and his strategies for teaching different accents to actors.

    Check out some of his Wired videos (featuring Megan!) here, here, and here.

    Megan in the NYT.

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    Hypocritical Oath May 17, 2021

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Elena Costello Tzintzun, a newly-minted PhD, about the importance of using heritage language learners as healthcare interpreters and healthcare accessibility.

    Philly episode

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    Bean Discourse Apr 28, 2021

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Jaya Saxena, Staff Writer at Eater about her piece The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment and the way we talk about food and why it matters.

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    Jamaalapalooza Apr 12, 2021

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Jamaal Muwwakkil, PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Santa Barbara about African American English and racial justice in university and community college.

    #lingcomm21

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    I Have So Many Questions Apr 01, 2021

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    April Fools! But it's the good kind of prank. Today we're participating in Operation Switcheroo, where podcasts hosts share their feed with a similar show to help grow our audiences by introducing people to shows they might not have heard of.

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    Standardized Language Ideology Mar 29, 2021

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Gaillynn Clements, Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Duke University, and Marnie Jo Petray, Associate Professor in TESOL at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, about their new edited volume, Linguistic Discrimination in US Higher Education Power, Prejudice, Impacts, and Remedies.

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    Use People's Pronouns Feb 28, 2021

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Ártemis López about queer and trans translation and interpretation, indirect and direct non-binary language and Spanish non-binary morphemes.

    On the word wet market

    Ártemis's Medium article on accessibility

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    The Moist Towelette of Podcasts Jan 31, 2021

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about lexicography, her experience on the History of Swear Words, and her favourite swear word.

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    Abso-2020-lutely Dec 28, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan discuss the nominations and winners of the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year for 2020.

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    Racists and Transphobes and Scaredy Cats, oh my Nov 29, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan discuss Yamiche Alcindor's "ungrammatical sentences" and Latinx/Latine supposedly ruining Dem's electoral chances.

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    Trumped Up Masculinity Oct 26, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Norma Mendoza-Denton Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, about her new edited book, Language in the Trump Era.

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    Sounds about White Sep 28, 2020

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    Megan and Carrie talk with JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, EdD student and adult educator about whiteness in language education.

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    Teach Your Children about Linguistic Discrimination Sep 03, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Katherine D. Kinzler, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, about her new book How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You.

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    Dismantling White Supremacy Aug 17, 2020

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Charity Hudley, Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about how to dismantle white supremacy in linguistics.

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    Third Time's the Charm Aug 03, 2020

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    It's the Fries' 3 year anniversary! Carrie and Megan respond to listener voicemails about linguistic discrimination.

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    Creating Puentes Jul 18, 2020

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    Megan and Carrie discuss the letter to the LSA and then talk with Dr. Marie-Eve Monette, founder of Creating Puentes, about the importance of translation and interpretation services and her life as a French speaker living in the US.

    Links:

    https://endangeredlanguagesproject.github.io/COVID-19/

    https://remezcla.com/culture/coronavirus-resource-kit-ayuda-en-espanol/

    https://www.wired.com/story/covid-language-translation-problem/?fbclid=IwAR1wWOhsOe0a6TO-a1-0sQpf5PwqSoL1CUrWoryAR2kkbO6Xhx2b2DHbuuQ

    https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/amid-lincoln-county-covid-outbreak-community-partners-work-to-reach-indigenous-guatemalan-community.html

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    Reid between the Lines Jun 15, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Marianne Mason, newly minted Associate Professor of Spanish at James Madison University, about police interviews, the Reid technique, and linguistics and the law.

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    Unconscious Bias Project May 12, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Linet Mera, co-founder of the Unconscious Bias Project, and Lucretia Iruela, consultant to the UBP, about unconscious bias and the Project.

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    Chaos and Order Apr 28, 2020

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    Megan and Carrie talk with David Bowles, a Mexican-American author from south Texas who teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley, about Classical Nahuatl and the culture of the people who spoke it.

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    Read between the Vines Apr 13, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Kendra Calhoun, graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about anti-hegemonic racial humor on Vine.

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    Bilingualism is. It just is. Mar 30, 2020

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    Megan talks with Dr. Nelson Flores, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor at Stanford, about the bilingual brain, semilingualism, and why people keep confusing them for the other.

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    Linguistic Injustice Mar 16, 2020

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Sharese King, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, about Rachel Jeantel and her treatment by the justice system and the media during the George Zimmerman trial.

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    What's in a Name? Mar 02, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan talk to Dr. Laurel MacKenzie, Assistant Professor at NYU, about all things names.

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    Cheaper than Therapy Feb 16, 2020

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    Megan and Carrie chat with Dr Anna Marie Trester, founder of Career Linguist, about the importance of linguistics to the workplace. (Employers: you need us!)

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    Wikitongues Feb 02, 2020

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Daniel Bogre Udell, cofounder of Wikitongues, about language documentation and revitalization.

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    Practice Makes Easier Jan 12, 2020

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Melissa Baese-Berk, Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, about native and non-native English and the different levels of effort required to understand each.

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    Irish isn't Just Decorative Dec 29, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Gearoidin McEvoy, PhD Candidate in Minority Language Rights Law at Dublin City University and cohost of Motherfoclóir, about Irish and the law.

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    Living Languages Dec 09, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Ebony Joachim, at Living Languages, who runs professional development courses for Indigenous communities in Australia, about her work, language revitalization and documentation, and the languages of Australia.

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    Between Iraq and a Hard Place Nov 24, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Zachary Jaggers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oregon, about differences in pronunciation of borrowings and what they tell us (or don't tell us) about people's political leanings.

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    Putting the Antics in SemAntics Nov 16, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Andrew McKenzie, Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, about Kiowa (Cauijoga), language documentation and the importance of semantic documentation.

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    Be Good and Be Kind Nov 16, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk to Dr. Ake Nicholas, Lecturer at Massey University, about Cook Islands Maori, language documentation and the importance of teachers in language revitalization.

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    The (In)Visibility of Disability Oct 07, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Alice Wong, the founder and Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, and Nina G, comedian, professional speaker, storyteller, writer and educator, about their disabilities and why the voices of disabled people belong in podcasts.

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    The Rhetoric of Xenophobia Sep 23, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk to Ben Zimmer about the rhetoric of "infestation" and "invasion" and the history of their use.

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    Everybody Hertz Sep 09, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Lisa Davidson, Professor of Linguistics at New York University, about the terms used by journalists to describe language and accents (and why they are so often problematic).

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    Your Language Sounds like it has a Drawbridge Aug 26, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Sadie Ryan, host of the Accentricity podcast, the podcast that examines the eccentricities of language and identity and how the way we talk connects to who we are.

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    To Be or Not to Be (Hamlet) Aug 12, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Duane Daniels, actor, acting coach, director and producer, aka Principal Van Clemmons on Veronica Mars, about acting, singing and his new book You are Not Really Hamlet: And Everybody Knows It.

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    Megan Squared Jul 29, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Megan Strom, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, about the importance of interpretation services in the United States.

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    Lal-apalooza Jul 15, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Lal Zimman, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about trans voices and vocal fry.

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    The Final Frontier Jul 01, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Jeffrey Punske, Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Dr Andrew McKenzie, Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, about their project on language change in space with the European Space Agency.

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    Word Slut Jun 17, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Amanda Montell about her new book wordslut: a feminist guide to taking back the english language.

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    Choice is Good; Justice is Better Jun 03, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, PhD student at the University of Arizona, about the language around reproductive rights, reproductive justice and abortion.

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    No hasi ko’i pendeu May 20, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Keisha Wiel, PhD student at Temple University, about Papiamentu, a creole spoken in the Caribbean.

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    Zom-be or Not Zom-be: That is the Question May 06, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Jamie Thomas, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore, about zombies, Swahili, and her book "Zombies Speak Swahili".

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    Chatting about Chatino Apr 22, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Hilaria Cruz, Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville in the Department of Comparative Humanities, about Chatino languages and Chatino conceptions of death.

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    Ha-has and Moonbeams and Yaks, Oh My! Apr 08, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Jane Solomon about her upcoming book The Dictionary of Difficult Words.

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    Fools Rush In Apr 01, 2019

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    In this special episode of the Vocal Fries, we present an episode of Turn Of Phrases, a podcast about turning phrases inside out.

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    Maaate, Don't Come the Raw Prawn with Me, Alright? Mar 24, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Tony McMahon from RMIT about all things bogan and Australia.

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    Water is Life Mar 10, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Nicole Horseherder, Diné from Arizona, about Diné Bizaad (aka Navajo).

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    On the Basis of Voice Feb 24, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Kelly Wright, PhD student at the University of Michigan, about housing discrimination via dialect discrimination.

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    Beyoncé, Hoodies and Obama Linguistics Feb 10, 2019

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Nicole Holliday, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College about Black English, biracial language, vocal fry, intonation, and the field of Obama linguistics.

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    The Kids are Alright Jan 27, 2019

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    Carrie interviews Megan about child language acquisition and why correcting kids' "mistakes" is not worth your time.

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    Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Podcast Jan 13, 2019

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Jonathan Rosa, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University, about his forthcoming book Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race.

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    Bilingualism isn’t Just for White Kids Dec 30, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Abby Bajuniemi about heritage languages and heritage language speakers.

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    The Latino Threat Narrative Dec 09, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Matthew Garley, Assistant Professor at CUNY, York College, about the use of Spanish and Spanglish in rap.

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    How Millennials are Destroying the Philly Accent Nov 25, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Betsy Sneller, Postdoc at Georgetown University about all things Philadelphia English.

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    The Rock was the Rock before the Rock, b'y Nov 11, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Tracy O'Brien, literature PhD student at the University of Toronto, about all things Newfoundland. Yes b'y.

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    Salt Fat Acid SHADE Oct 28, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie answer your questions about jerk linguists, the alt right and vocal fry.

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    Bat Signals Oct 14, 2018

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    It's another Halloween episode! Megan and Carrie talk about bats, wolves and ... prairie dogs?

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    Todos/Todas/Todes Sep 30, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Santiago Kalinowski, Director of the the Linguistics Department at the Argentinian Academy of Letters, about lenguaje inclusivo/inclusive language in Spanish.

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    Neaux French Left Behind Sep 16, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Nathalie Dajko, Assistant Professor at Tulane University, about varieties of French in Louisiana and the history of French and revitalization efforts in the region.

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    Means Doesn’t Rhyme with New Orleans Aug 26, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Lisa Sprowls, PhD student at Tulane University about New Orleans English(es), especially Yat and the Garden District dialects, and speakers perception of New Orleans dialects.

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    Down the Shore Aug 12, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Lou Capetta of the Lou Capetta Show with Jay Burke about all things New Jersey, including the Sopranos, the Jersey Shore and water ice.

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    Keep Calm and Fry On Jul 29, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie discuss their first year of podcasting, what they've learned from the experience, and how vocal fry will haunt them forever.

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    Ope, Just Gonna Sneak Right Past Ya and Grab the Ranch Jul 15, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Amanda and Lucy from the Wine and Crime podcast about all things Minnesota.

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    Don't Mind the Gap Jul 01, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Nelson Flores, newly minted Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, about the so-called 30 million word gap, why it is problematic, and how better to think about the language children hear around them.

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    Patreon Bonus Episode Preview Jun 27, 2018

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    In this special bonus episode, Carrie and Megan talk about Koko the gorilla, Love Island and donuts.

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    Rock 'n' Rhotic Jun 17, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Bob Kennedy of the University of California, Santa Barbara about accents in song, including which accents are associated with which genres, appropriation of those accents, and r's.

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    There Is No Try, There Is Only Du...olingo Jun 03, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Joan Palmiter Bajorek, PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, about the issues around learning a second language via educational technology.

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    Learning to Love Like May 20, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Alexandra D'Arcy, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Director of the Sociolinguistics Research Lab and author of "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight Hundred Years of like" about the many guises of "like". Learn why "like" is useful and older than you think it is.

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    Calling London May 06, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Issa Wurie, cohost of the Young Free and Coupled podcast, about South London dialects and slang.

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    Troublesome Terps Apr 22, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Alexander Drechsel, Alexander Gansmeier and Jonathan Downie of the Troublesome Terps in this special crossover episode.

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    Don't Be An Accenthole Apr 08, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Ethan Kutlu, PhD student at the University of Florida about foreign accented speech (FAS), which foreign accents are judged more harshly, and why we should stop judging FAS.

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    Literally Exploding with Nerd Rage Mar 25, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie discuss Time's/The Muse's list of "bad" words. HEAVY SIGH.

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    Black Lives Matter Mar 11, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Ersula Ore from Arizona State University about rhetoric, respectability politics, and her arrest near campus back in 2014. Her story intersects with the larger conversation about black life in America, including the story of Sandra Bland. Content note: this conversation includes mentions of rape, lynching and police brutality.

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    Basque-ing in the European Sun Feb 25, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez from Southern Illinois University Carbondale about Basque and the discrimination Basque speakers deal with in Spain and France.

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    They/Them/Theirs Feb 11, 2018

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Kirby Conrod, doctoral student at University of Washington, about trans language, including pronoun usage and singular they.

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    We're Ghana Talk English Jan 28, 2018

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Selikem Gotah, Masters student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, about Ghanaian English, Ghanaian Pidgin English, and other languages of Ghana. Learn a little about the history of Ghana and the status of English, Pidgin and other languages in Ghana.

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    Two Canadians, an Australian and an American walk into a Linguistics Conference...what is this, a crossover episode? Jan 14, 2018

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    In this special episode of the Vocal Fries, Carrie and Megan chat with Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne of Lingthusiasm about Australian and Canadian English while at the Linguistics Society of America's annual conference.

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    French (Canadian) Fries Dec 31, 2017

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Nicole Rosen, Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions at the University of Manitoba about Canadian French, including Laurentian, Acadian and Métis French. We discuss the politics, history and features of Canadian French, including the distinct features of the variety spoken in Winnipeg (where Nicole is from).

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    Down in the Holler Dec 10, 2017

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    Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Paul Reed, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Alabama. They discuss Appalachian English (and how it's the Southerniest of Southern), hollers, and Jack tales.

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    ChicaNO? ChicanYES! Nov 26, 2017

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    Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Carmen Fought about Chicano English, why it matters, and why it isn't the same as Spanglish. Carmen Fought is a Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College.

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    Borderlands/La frontera Nov 12, 2017

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    Carrie and Megan chat with award-winning Chicano Poet Alberto Álvaro Ríos about living on the border between the US and Mexico and between English and Spanish.

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    Freaky Fryday Oct 29, 2017

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    Megan and Carrie chat about superstitions, special numbers and the real meaning of 'witch hunt', all while (mis?)pronouncing triskaidekaphobia. It's the spookiest episode yet!

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    A Sirious Problem Oct 15, 2017

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    Do Siri or Alexa have problems understanding you? Learn why, with Carrie and Megan. They talk to Dr. Rachael Tatman about Automatic Speech Recognition (the technology responsible for Siri and Alexa) and why it might be as biased as humans are.

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    On the Rez Oct 01, 2017

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    Megan and Carrie interview Dr. Peter Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University, where he works on language revitalization. They talk about Rez English(es) (the varieties of English spoken on reserves/reservations), indigenous languages of the United States and Canada, and language revitalization.

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    Grammar Not-zi Sep 17, 2017

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    Carrie and Megan talk about prescriptive grammar, grammar peeving, and how most of the rules you were taught about English were made up by a few white dudes way back when. Turns out, prescriptivism is racist, classist, and ableist, and enforcing these rules kinda make you a jerk. They also discuss how they had been trained in high school to be prescriptivists, and how linguistics helped them become less biased.

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    Southern Fried Sep 04, 2017

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    Megan and Carrie talk to Beth Troutman about what it's like to be a Southerner in politics and TV, discuss some Southern American English features, and why it's uncool to judge regional accents.

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    Foul-Mouthed Women Jul 31, 2017

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    Have you ever wondered why swearing feels so good? Carrie and Megan explain what counts as swearing and why it's so fun to swear. They also discuss what types of words become profane over time and how swearing varies across languages and cultures. Also, they swear a lot. gasp

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    Uppity Women Jul 15, 2017

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    In this episode we discuss the dreaded vocal fry. We explain what vocal fry actually is, who uses it (cough everyone cough), and why we judge only women for using it. Carrie and Megan ask you to stop judging women for using vocal fry - it's a proxy for sexism and anyway, it's everywhere.

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