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Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Meg Grant talks to Nancy Hedberg about why and how we do Pragmatics, and the real meaning of "Black Lives Matter"!<br />Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org<br />Find the show notes and transcript at this link:<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/pragmatics" rel="noopener">https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/pragmatics</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1234</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>canada,intro,linguistics,pragmatics,university</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7fd77b4a6edd25f1f3a36bc2de54e3bf.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why we do Semantics</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-we-do-semantics--41991762</link><description><![CDATA[Julie Doner talks to Ai Taniguchi about why we do Semantics, and why linguists are more interested in words like "every" than whether cereal is soup!  <br />Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org<br />Find the show notes and transcript at this link:<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/semantics" rel="noopener">https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/semantics</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41991762</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/41991762/semantics_combined.mp3" length="18495946" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>TILCoP Canada</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Julie Doner talks to Ai Taniguchi about why we do Semantics, and why linguists are more interested in words like "every" than whether cereal is soup!  
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
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Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
Find the show notes and transcript at...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nathan Sanders talks to Catherine Anderson about what babies & children know about language, and how we can tell what they know!<br />Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org<br />Find the show notes and transcript at this link:<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/language-acquisition" rel="noopener">https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/language-acquisition</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1032</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>acquisition,babies,children,introduction,language,linguistics,university</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7fd77b4a6edd25f1f3a36bc2de54e3bf.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why we do Psycholinguistics</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-we-do-psycholinguistics--41101406</link><description><![CDATA[Catherine Anderson talks to Meg Grant about why and how we do Psycholinguistics, whether we even need psycholinguistics in a world with neural imaging, and why your prof might mention vegetables in stats class! <br />Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org<br />Find the show notes and transcript at this link:<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/psycholinguistics" rel="noopener">https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/psycholinguistics</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41101406</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/41101406/wttw_pslx_wholeepisode.mp3" length="15731982" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>TILCoP Canada</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Catherine Anderson talks to Meg Grant about why and how we do Psycholinguistics, whether we even need psycholinguistics in a world with neural imaging, and why your prof might mention vegetables in stats class! &#13;
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Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org&#13;
Find the show notes and transcript at this link:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Daniel Currie Hall and Tim Mills talk about what's interesting about Phonology.<br />Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org<br />Find the show notes and transcript at this link:<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonology" rel="noopener">https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/phonology</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>685</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>canada,linguistics,phonology,speech,university</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7fd77b4a6edd25f1f3a36bc2de54e3bf.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why we do Syntax</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-we-do-syntax--41099654</link><description><![CDATA[Tim Mills talks to Julie Doner about why and how we do Syntax, whether grammar might be in human DNA, and whether there's a single "right" model of syntax.<br />Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org<br />Find the show notes and transcript at this link:<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/syntax" rel="noopener">https://sites.google.com/view/word-to-the-whys-podcast/home/syntax</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41099654</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:54:40 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/41099654/wordtothewhys_syntax.mp3" length="21493550" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>TILCoP Canada</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Tim Mills talks to Julie Doner about why and how we do Syntax, whether grammar might be in human DNA, and whether there's a single "right" model of syntax.&#13;
Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org&#13;
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Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org
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Intro and Outro music is "Alien Language" by Podington Bear on freemusicarchive.org&#13;
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