Lingthusiasm Episode 112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL)
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> Language is all around us. This sentence right here, is language! But between the raw experience of someone saying something and a linguistic analysis of what they’ve said, there are certain steps that make it easier for that analysis to happen, or to be understood or reproduced by others later.
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> In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about how language becomes linguistic data. We talk about making recordings of language, transcribing real-life or recorded language, annotating recordings or transcriptions, archiving all those materials for future generations, restoring archival materials from decaying formats, and presenting this information in useful ways when writing up an analysis. Along the way, we touch on playing 100+ year old songs from cracked wax cylinders, the multi-line glossing format used so readers can understand examples in a language they’re not already fluent in, analyzing spontaneous conversation using tapes from the Watergate Scandal, recognizing everyone who’s contributed (including your own intuitions!), and Lauren’s role on a big committee of linguists and archivists formalizing principles for data citation in linguistics.
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> In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about some of our favourite deleted bits from recent interviews that we didn’t quite have space to share with you! First, an excerpt from our interview with Adam Aleksic about tiktok and how different online platforms give rise to different kinds of communication styles. Second, a return to our interview with Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez for a bit about Spanish internet slang, -och, and why “McCulloch” looks like a perfect name for an author of a book about internet linguistics. Finally, deleted scenes from our advice episode, in which we reveal some Lingthusiasm lore about pronouncing “Melbourne” and imitating each other’s accents and answer questions about linguistics degrees and switching languages with people..
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> **Here are the links mentioned in the episode:**
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> * Leipzig Glossing Rules from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Linguistics
> * Kittens & Linguistic Diversity Facebook page
> * Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts (CHAT)
> * Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES)
> * CABank English Jefferson Watergate Corpus
> * Jefferson Transcription System – A guide to the symbols
> * Wikipedia entry for ‘List of -gate scandals and controversies’
> * The Austin Principles
> * T-Recs - ‘Tromsø recommendations for citation of research data in linguistics’ by H. Andreassen, A. Berez-Kroeker, L. Collister, P. Conzett, C. Cox, K. De Smedt, and B. McDonnell
> * ’Berkeley Cylinders’ post on Old Phono
> * 'Media Stability Ratings’ post on Museum of Obsolete Media blog
> * 'The Tape Restorator’ post on Endangered Languages and Cultures
> * DELAMAN Award
> * Pāṇini Award from the Association for Linguistic Typology
> * 'New publication: Situating Linguistics in the Social Science Data Movement. Chapter in the Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management’ post on Superlinguo
> * 'Linguistic Data Interest Group: Five years of improving data citation practices in linguistics’ post on Superlinguo
> * 'New Commentary Paper: Open research requires open mindedness: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo [open access]’ post on Superlinguo
> * Lingthusiasm episode ’Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences’
> * Lingthusiasm episode ‘What visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are’
> * 'Tiny Turtle Follows Cat On a Skateboard | Cuddle Buddies’ on Cuddle Buddies YouTube page
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> Gretchen is on Bluesky as @GretchenMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic.
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> Lauren is on Bluesky as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.
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> Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk, and our technical editor is Leah Velleman. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).
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