Best Spectrogram Podcasts (2025)

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Week 17, 2025 7:24

2d ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 17, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 16, 2025 7:24

9d ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 16, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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103: A hand-y guide to gesture 48:02

12d ago48:02

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Gestures: every known language has them, and there's a growing body of research on how they fit into communication. But academic literature can be hard to dig into on your own. So Lauren has spent the past 5 years diving into the gesture literature and boiling it down into a tight 147 page book. In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen…

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Week 15, 2025 7:24

16d ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 15, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 14, 2025 7:24

23d ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 14, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 13, 2025 7:24

1M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 13, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 12, 2025 7:24

1M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 12, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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102: The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf 51:19

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It's a fun science fiction trope: learn a mysterious alien language and acquire superpowers, just like if you'd been zapped by a cosmic ray or bitten by a radioactive spider. But what's the linguistics behind this idea found in books like Babel-17, Embassytown, or the movie Arrival? In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch ge…

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Week 11, 2025 7:24

1M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 11, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 10, 2025 7:24

2M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 10, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 9, 2025 7:24

2M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 9, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 8, 2025 7:24

2M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 8, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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101: Micro to macro - The levels of language 48:36

2M ago48:36

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When we first learn about nature, we generally start with the solid mid-sized animals: cats, dogs, elephants, tigers, horses, birds, turtles, and so on. Only later on do we zoom in and out from these charismatic megafauna to the tinier levels, like cells and bacteria, or the larger levels, like ecosystems and the water cycle. With language, words a…

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Week 7, 2025 7:24

2M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 7, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 6, 2025 7:24

3M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 6, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 5, 2025 7:24

3M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 5, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 4, 2025 7:24

3M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 4, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 3, 2025 7:24

3M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 3, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics 41:16

3M ago41:16

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This is our hundredth episode that's enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we've put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and Lingthusiasm team members, fan favourites that resonated with you from the previous 99 episodes, and new facts that haven't been on the show before b…

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Week 2, 2025 7:24

4M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 2, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 1, 2025 7:24

4M ago7:24

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 1, 2025By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 52, 2024 7:27

4M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 52, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 51, 2024 7:26

4M ago7:26

7:26

A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 51, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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99: A politeness episode, if you please 56:05

4M ago56:05

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If it wouldn't be too much trouble, if you have a spare half hour, could we possibly suggest that you might enjoy listening to this episode on politeness? Or, if you'd prefer a less polite version, "Listen! Now!" In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about what politeness and rudeness are made up of at a l…

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Week 50, 2024 7:27

5M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 50, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 49, 2024 7:26

5M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 49, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 48, 2024 7:27

5M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 48, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 47, 2024 7:26

5M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 47, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender 56:10

5M ago56:10

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When a human learns a new word, we're learning to attach that word to a set of concepts in the real world. When a computer "learns" a new word, it is creating some associations between that word and other words it has seen before, which can sometimes give it the appearance of understanding, but it doesn't have that real-world grounding, which can s…

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Week 46, 2024 7:27

5M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 46, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 45, 2024 7:26

6M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 45, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 44, 2024 7:27

6M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 44, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 43, 2024 7:26

6M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 43, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 42, 2024 7:27

6M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 42, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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97: OooOooh~~ our possession episode oOooOOoohh 👻 44:56

6M ago44:56

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Eye of newt and toe of frog,Wool of bat and tongue of dog...In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic and ~spooky~ about possession! We talk about how the haunting type of possession and the linguistic type of possession do share an etymological origin, but how the term "possession" itself is misleading, becau…

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Week 41, 2024 7:26

7M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 41, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 40, 2024 7:27

7M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 40, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 39, 2024 7:26

7M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 39, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 38, 2024 7:27

7M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 38, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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96: Welcome back aboard the metaphor train! 35:13

7M ago35:13

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We're taking you on a journey to new linguistic destinations, so come along for the ride and don't forget to hold on! In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about metaphors! It's easy to think of literary comparisons like "my love is like a red, red rose" but metaphors are also far more common and almost un…

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Week 37, 2024 7:26

8M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 37, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 36, 2024 7:27

8M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 36, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 35, 2024 7:26

8M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 35, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 34, 2024 7:27

8M ago7:27

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 34, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Week 33, 2024 7:26

8M ago7:26

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A summary of the sounds generated by Minute/Year during week 33, 2024By Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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95: Lo! An undetached collection of meaning-parts! 43:51

9M ago43:51

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Imagine you're in a field with someone whose language you don't speak. A rabbit scurries by. The other person says "Gavagai!" You probably assumed they meant "rabbit" but they could have meant something else, like "scurrying" or even "lo! an undetached rabbit-part!" In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic ab…