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The Vocal Fries

The Vocal Fries

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A Linguistics and Language podcast featuring Megan Figueroa and Carrie Gillon
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The Vocal Fries

The Vocal Fries

The Vocal Fries

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The Vocal Fries

The Vocal Fries

The Vocal Fries

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A Linguistics and Language podcast featuring Megan Figueroa and Carrie Gillon
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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
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 brainSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email
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: Toward
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".WOTY23Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfri
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 languageSupport the showContact us: T
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 OffSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us
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 referendumSupport the showContact
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 podcastWest Virginia University shutting down World LanguagesWV
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 Termit
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 Etymologi
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/S0142716423000061http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/ling327syllabus.pdfhttps://ne
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 equiv
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 articleSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social
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:nprwaponytimesBackground on phonic lipsSupport the showContact us: Threads us @voc
Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language.Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.
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?Support the showCont
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
Example bonus episode from November 2022.We talk WOTY22!Full episode coming soonSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep ca
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' WOTY22A discussion
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 Sto
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.Want to edit vi
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. Want to edit video or audio? Try Desc
Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t".Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gma
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 anniv
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 a
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