Lexicon Valley
Lexicon Valley
A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
Episodes
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Dec 17, 2013 • 31min
Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not"
The crowdsourcing of JFK’s most iconic speech: Crafting President Kennedy’s inaugural address.
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Dec 10, 2013 • 26min
The End of Ambiguity
On an invented language that forces you to choose your words carefully.
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Aug 6, 2013 • 37min
The Burden of Being Right
Embracing the hand-slapping, prescriptivist schoolmarm in all of us.
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Jul 15, 2013 • 30min
Name That Tone
How tonal languages such as Cantonese might give would-be musicians a leg up.
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Jul 1, 2013 • 21min
Eject at High Altitude
The uncanny correlation between altitude and language development with Caleb Everett.
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Jun 25, 2013 • 31min
30 Million By Four
How to raise verbal children: Why talking to your kids is one of the most important investments you can make in their future.
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Jun 17, 2013 • 27min
A Brief History of Swearing
On profanity and obscenity with author Melissa Mohr.
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Jun 10, 2013 • 28min
Accentuate the Positive
Yeah, no: On the seemingly paradoxical phrase and its hidden logic.
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Jan 31, 2013 • 31min
The Fawth Flaw, Part II
The fall and rise of rhoticity (pronouncing your Rs) in New York City English.
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Jan 17, 2013 • 24min
The Fawth Flaw
A classic study about R-dropping in Manhattan department stores and so-called "prestige borrowing."
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