Podcast - Linguistically Aware

Season 3

4. Little Minds, Big Inferences: Cheryl Iwanchuk on Children's Understanding of Ambiguity (Part 1)

In this episode, Brooklyn sits down with Cheryl Iwanchuk, a current Master’s student in linguistics to talk about her research on how children acquire the ability to make inferences from ambiguous language. We talk about what “contrastive inferences” are and the differences between kids and adults in the way they understand these types of inferences!

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on March 11th, 2025.

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3. Linguistic Legends: Myths, Gender, and the Rise of AI with Dr. Jila Ghomeshi & Dr. Ivona Kucerova

In this very special episode, we have a double feature – that means not one but TWO interviews with well-known linguists here in Canada.

Our first guest is Dr. Jila Ghomeshi – a professor of linguistics at the University of Manitoba. She sits down with Brooklyn to talk about her career journey, her research, and to debunk her favourite myths about linguistics.

Our second guest is Dr. Ivona Kucerova from McMaster University. Dr. Kucerova sits down with a guest host, Francisco Ongay, to discuss her research on how gender is represented in language and her applied work on language revitalization.

Interestingly, both our guests today had something to say about ChatGPT and why these new large language models are so intriguing!

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on February 11th, 2025.

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2. Stress Test: Unpacking Perception and Production in Arabic with Summer Abdalla

In this episode, Brooklyn sits down with Summer Abdalla – a recent graduate from the MA program in Linguistics. In this interview, Summer breaks down her research for her Master’s thesis where she found that the way speakers of Arabic perceive word stress in their language might not match up with the way they actually produce it!

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on January 14th, 2025.

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1. Pitch Perfect: The Art of Speech, Rap, and Rhyme with Charys Russel

Join our new host, Brooklyn, as she sits down with Charys Russel – a current MA student in Linguistics at UofC. Charys uses both her expertise in linguistics and musical theory to tell us about how pitch is used in speech versus music, and how rap artists may change the pitch of their voice enhance or even create rhymes in their verses!

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on December 10th, 2024.

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Season 2

15. The life of pronouns

This is the fifteenth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talks with Dr. Dennis Storoshenko about the research methods he is using in Syntactic research, and a wonderful life of pronouns they/them.  

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 19th October, 2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

Listen to the podcast here. 

14. A speck of Sociolinguistics

This is the fourteenth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talks about language variation, a very important aspect of Sociolinguistic research.  

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 21st September, 2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

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13. The Conversation

This is the thirteenth episode (quite coincidentally completed on Friday 13th, 2021)  of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talks about the use of stress in the movie The Conversation.  

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 17th August, 2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

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12. Language and Literacy

This is the twelfth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan and Harrison Campbell talk about the language used in the research on literacy.  

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 20th July, 2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

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11. Human vs. Animal 'Language'

This is the tenth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talks about similarities and differences between the human language and animal communication systems. 

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 22nd June, 2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

Listen to the podcast here. 

10. Cyber-Crime Language

This is the tenth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan and Mike Hracs talk about the language used in cyber-related crime activities such as phishing emails and ransomware. 

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 18th May, 2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

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9. Misconceptions about Language

This is the ninth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talks about some common misconceptions about language and language use. 

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 20th April, 2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

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8. Speech recognition

This is the eighth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan and Lyndon Rey talk about the speech recognition systems. 

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 16th March,2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

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7. Myths about Accents and Language Learning

This is the seventh episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan and Dr. Mary O’Brien debunk common myths about accents and language learning. 

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 16th February, 2021, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm.

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6. Indigenous Language Documentation

This is the sixth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talked to Dr. Corey Telfer about the indigenous language documentation and preservation. 

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 19th January, 2021, at 11 am and 8.30 pm.

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5. Indigenous Language Teaching

This is the fifth episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talked to Dr. Corey Telfer about the indigenous language teaching. 

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 13th December, 2020, at 11 am and 8.30 pm.

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4. Language in Advertising

This is the fourth podcast of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talked to Dr. Svitlana Winters about the language used in advertising. They talk about the ways language of persuasion is different from the language of education, what linguistic concepts lie behind catchy advertisement slogans, why marketing experts should have linguistics on their team, and why advertisements don’t always mean what they say or say what they mean.

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on November 17th, 2020, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm. 

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3. Sound symbolism

This is the third podcast of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talked to David M. Sidhu about sound symbolism.

In this episode, Dušan and David talk about the reasons why we project meaning to certain sounds, why some sounds are mellifluous and gentle, why other sounds are intense and strong, what lies behind our names, and how parents choose names for their babies.

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 29th June, 2020, at 11.30 am and 8.30 pm. 

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2. Art of Constructing languages

This is the second episode of Linguistically Aware in which Dušan talked to Joey Windsor about the art of conlanging.

In this episode, Dušan and Joey talk about the ways in which languages can be invented, what creative and cognitive processes underlie language creation, how some of the most popular conlangs today – Klingon, Dothraki, High Valirian – were created, and why conlanging is an exercise for the brain.

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 fm, on 29th April, 2020, at 8 pm. 

Listen to the podcast here or the extended version on youtube. 

1. Language in Rap Music

We recorded a podcast on the language of rap music with Dr. Flynn. The episode is the first in a brand new series of podcasts called Linguistically Aware.

In this episode, Dušan talks to Darin about the ways in which language is used in rap music. They talk about the course Dr. Flynn teaches – Rap Linguistics, how his students approach the course, how rappers extend the use of rhymes, and many linguistic devices to create art, why Eminem is a true language maverick among the rappers etc.

The podcast was aired on CJSW 90.9 on 25th March, 2020, at 8pm. Check out our promotional video for the podcast! The entire episode is one click away – here.

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