The Vocal Fries

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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.
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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.)

We also discuss International Week of Deaf People 2021 and The genocide of signed languages: protecting the linguistic rights of Africa’s deaf children.

One of our patrons sent in the correct pronunciation of her name. Thanks SZ!

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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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