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21: What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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The Lingthusiasm Podcast

Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gorn talk to Susie Siles from the blip lab in Singapore. When we listen to just one feature of a sound, two groups of speakers make exactly opposite decisions for which one should go with which. It seems to be driven by the way that their brain processes these sounds differently. If there's one thing you could leave people thinking about linguistics, what would it be? We often have this tendency to think about language in isolation.

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