The Vocal Fries (The Vocal Fries)
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| 31 May 2021 | Accent-uate Your Performance | 00:53:34 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Erik Singer, dialect coach to the stars, about what dialect coaches do, how to become one, and his strategies for teaching different accents to actors. Check out some of his Wired videos (featuring Megan!) here, here, and here. Megan in the NYT. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 05 Sep 2017 | Southern Fried | 00:39:54 | |
Megan and Carrie talk to Beth Troutman about what it's like to be a Southerner in politics and TV, discuss some Southern American English features, and why it's uncool to judge regional accents. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 01 Jul 2019 | The Final Frontier | 01:22:42 | |
Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Jeffrey Punske, Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Dr Andrew McKenzie, Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, about their project on language change in space with the European Space Agency. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 30 Dec 2019 | Irish isn't Just Decorative | 00:58:20 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Gearoidin McEvoy, PhD Candidate in Minority Language Rights Law at Dublin City University and cohost of Motherfoclóir, about Irish and the law. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 03 Sep 2020 | Teach Your Children about Linguistic Discrimination | 00:47:49 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Katherine D. Kinzler, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, about her new book How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 27 Sep 2021 | Snap, Crackle, K-Pop | 01:00:52 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Joyhanna Yoo Garza, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, about K-Pop, semiotics, cultural appropriation, and Ali Wong. (Buy her book here.) We also discuss International Week of Deaf People 2021 and The genocide of signed languages: protecting the linguistic rights of Africa’s deaf children. One of our patrons sent in the correct pronunciation of her name. Thanks SZ! We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 31 Aug 2021 | The Language of Love | 01:00:42 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Natalyn Daniels, Clery Liaison at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Rose Wilkerson, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, about growing up on the Navajo Nation, transferring to Berkeley from community college, sociolinguistics, academic English, standard language ideology and the language of love. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 28 Jun 2021 | I Ain't Messing With You | 00:56:41 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Deion Broxton about his Baltimore accent, his career and speech therapy, and going viral. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 26 Mar 2018 | Literally Exploding with Nerd Rage | 00:44:21 | |
Megan and Carrie discuss Time's/The Muse's list of "bad" words. HEAVY SIGH. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 16 Nov 2019 | Be Good and Be Kind | 00:55:54 | |
Carrie and Megan talk to Dr. Ake Nicholas, Lecturer at Massey University, about Cook Islands Maori, language documentation and the importance of teachers in language revitalization. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 17 Aug 2020 | Dismantling White Supremacy | 00:54:01 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Charity Hudley, Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about how to dismantle white supremacy in linguistics. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 01 Apr 2019 | Fools Rush In | 00:15:52 | |
In this special episode of the Vocal Fries, we present an episode of Turn Of Phrases, a podcast about turning phrases inside out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-vocal-fries/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-vocal-fries/supportContact us:
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| 16 Mar 2020 | Linguistic Injustice | 00:51:26 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Sharese King, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, about Rachel Jeantel and her treatment by the justice system and the media during the George Zimmerman trial. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 15 Jul 2017 | Uppity Women | 00:32:37 | |
In this episode we discuss the dreaded vocal fry. We explain what vocal fry actually is, who uses it (cough everyone cough), and why we judge only women for using it. Carrie and Megan ask you to stop judging women for using vocal fry - it's a proxy for sexism and anyway, it's everywhere. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 15 Jun 2020 | Reid between the Lines | 01:01:33 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Marianne Mason, newly minted Associate Professor of Spanish at James Madison University, about police interviews, the Reid technique, and linguistics and the law. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 17 Feb 2020 | Cheaper than Therapy | 00:58:16 | |
Megan and Carrie chat with Dr Anna Marie Trester, founder of Career Linguist, about the importance of linguistics to the workplace. (Employers: you need us!) We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 31 Jan 2021 | The Moist Towelette of Podcasts | 00:58:56 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about lexicography, her experience on the History of Swear Words, and her favourite swear word. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 10 Jan 2022 | Galicious | 00:43:49 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Enrico Torre about Galician and other languages spoken in Spain and why they matter. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 01 Apr 2021 | I Have So Many Questions | 00:32:49 | |
April Fools! But it's the good kind of prank. Today we're participating in Operation Switcheroo, where podcasts hosts share their feed with a similar show to help grow our audiences by introducing people to shows they might not have heard of. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 28 Dec 2020 | Abso-2020-lutely | 00:43:38 | |
Carrie and Megan discuss the nominations and winners of the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year for 2020. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 25 Nov 2019 | Between Iraq and a Hard Place | 00:58:34 | |
Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Zachary Jaggers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oregon, about differences in pronunciation of borrowings and what they tell us (or don't tell us) about people's political leanings. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-vocal-fries/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-vocal-fries/support Contact us:
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| 27 Aug 2018 | Means Doesn’t Rhyme with New Orleans | 00:55:34 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Lisa Sprowls, PhD student at Tulane University about New Orleans English(es), especially Yat and the Garden District dialects, and speakers perception of New Orleans dialects. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 01 Aug 2017 | Foul-Mouthed Women | 00:44:03 | |
Have you ever wondered why swearing feels so good? Carrie and Megan explain what counts as swearing and why it's so fun to swear. They also discuss what types of words become profane over time and how swearing varies across languages and cultures. Also, they swear a lot. gasp We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 15 Oct 2018 | Bat Signals | 00:40:43 | |
It's another Halloween episode! Megan and Carrie talk about bats, wolves and ... prairie dogs? We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 12 Nov 2018 | The Rock was the Rock before the Rock, b'y | 01:19:53 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Tracy O'Brien, literature PhD student at the University of Toronto, about all things Newfoundland. Yes b'y. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 07 Oct 2019 | The (In)Visibility of Disability | 01:15:03 | |
Megan and Carrie talk to Alice Wong, the founder and Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, and Nina G, comedian, professional speaker, storyteller, writer and educator, about their disabilities and why the voices of disabled people belong in podcasts. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-vocal-fries/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-vocal-fries/support Contact us:
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| 27 Oct 2020 | Trumped Up Masculinity | 00:58:23 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Norma Mendoza-Denton Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, about her new edited book, Language in the Trump Era. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 02 Aug 2021 | Me Myself and AI | 01:05:29 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the co-authors, and the dangers of large language models and NLP. We also briefly discuss Lord Digby Jones and his classism and Alex Scott's amazing comeback. Deborah Raji's MIT Technology Review paper. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 21 May 2018 | Learning to Love Like | 01:09:09 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Alexandra D'Arcy, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Director of the Sociolinguistics Research Lab and author of "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight Hundred Years of like" about the many guises of "like". Learn why "like" is useful and older than you think it is. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 06 May 2019 | Zom-be or Not Zom-be: That is the Question | 01:14:47 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Jamie Thomas, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore, about zombies, Swahili, and her book "Zombies Speak Swahili". We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 28 Sep 2020 | Sounds about White | 00:57:54 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, EdD student and adult educator about whiteness in language education. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 12 Apr 2021 | Jamaalapalooza | 00:53:09 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Jamaal Muwwakkil, PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Santa Barbara about African American English and racial justice in university and community college. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 28 Feb 2021 | Use People's Pronouns | 00:57:53 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Ártemis López about queer and trans translation and interpretation, indirect and direct non-binary language and Spanish non-binary morphemes. On the word wet market Ártemis's Medium article on accessibility We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 18 Jul 2020 | Creating Puentes | 00:59:15 | |
Megan and Carrie discuss the letter to the LSA and then talk with Dr. Marie-Eve Monette, founder of Creating Puentes, about the importance of translation and interpretation services and her life as a French speaker living in the US. Links: https://endangeredlanguagesproject.github.io/COVID-19/ https://remezcla.com/culture/coronavirus-resource-kit-ayuda-en-espanol/ We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 30 Jul 2018 | Keep Calm and Fry On | 00:47:31 | |
Megan and Carrie discuss their first year of podcasting, what they've learned from the experience, and how vocal fry will haunt them forever. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com Contact us:
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| 22 Apr 2019 | Chatting about Chatino | 00:57:26 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Hilaria Cruz, Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville in the Department of Comparative Humanities, about Chatino languages and Chatino conceptions of death. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 02 Oct 2017 | On the Rez | 00:43:16 | |
Megan and Carrie interview Dr. Peter Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University, where he works on language revitalization. They talk about Rez English(es) (the varieties of English spoken on reserves/reservations), indigenous languages of the United States and Canada, and language revitalization. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 14 Jun 2021 | Cult Classic | 01:00:16 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Amanda Montell about her newest book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, out June 15, 2021, how cults use language to entice and keep followers and why cults fascinate us. Check out her podcast Sounds Like a Cult. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 29 Jan 2018 | We're Ghana Talk English | 00:40:19 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Selikem Gotah, Masters student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, about Ghanaian English, Ghanaian Pidgin English, and other languages of Ghana. Learn a little about the history of Ghana and the status of English, Pidgin and other languages in Ghana. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 30 Oct 2017 | Freaky Fryday | 00:35:54 | |
Megan and Carrie chat about superstitions, special numbers and the real meaning of 'witch hunt', all while (mis?)pronouncing triskaidekaphobia. It's the spookiest episode yet! We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 25 Mar 2019 | Maaate, Don't Come the Raw Prawn with Me, Alright? | 01:08:23 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Tony McMahon from RMIT about all things bogan and Australia. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 11 Mar 2019 | Water is Life | 00:53:33 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Nicole Horseherder, Diné from Arizona, about Diné Bizaad (aka Navajo). We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 03 Jun 2019 | Choice is Good; Justice is Better | 00:56:04 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, PhD student at the University of Arizona, about the language around reproductive rights, reproductive justice and abortion. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 13 Jan 2020 | Practice Makes Easier | 00:52:42 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Melissa Baese-Berk, Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, about native and non-native English and the different levels of effort required to understand each. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 13 Aug 2018 | Down the Shore | 00:51:52 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Lou Capetta of the Lou Capetta Show with Jay Burke about all things New Jersey, including the Sopranos, the Jersey Shore and water ice. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 27 Nov 2017 | ChicaNO? ChicanYES! | 00:40:59 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Carmen Fought about Chicano English, why it matters, and why it isn't the same as Spanglish. Carmen Fought is a Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 25 Oct 2021 | Everybody Wants to Rural the World | 01:02:01 | |
Carrie and Megan talk to Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King (among others), about his YA books set in Appalachia, why he doesn't use eye-dialect, and why representation matters. Transcript available here We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 23 Apr 2018 | Troublesome Terps | 01:30:39 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Alexander Drechsel, Alexander Gansmeier and Jonathan Downie of the Troublesome Terps in this special crossover episode. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 03 Aug 2020 | Third Time's the Charm | 00:41:12 | |
It's the Fries' 3 year anniversary! Carrie and Megan respond to listener voicemails about linguistic discrimination. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 16 Nov 2019 | Putting the Antics in SemAntics | 01:07:15 | |
Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Andrew McKenzie, Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, about Kiowa (Cauijoga), language documentation and the importance of semantic documentation. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 28 Jun 2018 | Patreon Bonus Episode Preview | 00:17:49 | |
In this special bonus episode, Carrie and Megan talk about Koko the gorilla, Love Island and donuts. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 04 Jun 2018 | There Is No Try, There Is Only Du...olingo | 00:46:30 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Joan Palmiter Bajorek, PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, about the issues around learning a second language via educational technology. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 02 Jul 2018 | Don't Mind the Gap | 00:56:47 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Nelson Flores, newly minted Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, about the so-called 30 million word gap, why it is problematic, and how better to think about the language children hear around them. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 28 Apr 2021 | Bean Discourse | 00:58:54 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Jaya Saxena, Staff Writer at Eater about her piece The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment and the way we talk about food and why it matters. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 12 Feb 2018 | They/Them/Theirs | 00:47:58 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Kirby Conrod, doctoral student at University of Washington, about trans language, including pronoun usage and singular they. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod. Contact us:
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| 18 Jun 2018 | Rock 'n' Rhotic | 01:07:26 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Bob Kennedy of the University of California, Santa Barbara about accents in song, including which accents are associated with which genres, appropriation of those accents, and r's. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 12 Aug 2019 | To Be or Not to Be (Hamlet) | 01:05:54 | |
Megan and Carrie talk to Duane Daniels, actor, acting coach, director and producer, aka Principal Van Clemmons on Veronica Mars, about acting, singing and his new book You are Not Really Hamlet: And Everybody Knows It. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com Contact us:
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| 13 Apr 2020 | Read between the Vines | 00:53:18 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Kendra Calhoun, graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about anti-hegemonic racial humor on Vine. Contact us:
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| 28 Jan 2019 | The Kids are Alright | 00:36:05 | |
Carrie interviews Megan about child language acquisition and why correcting kids' "mistakes" is not worth your time. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 09 Dec 2019 | Living Languages | 00:57:11 | |
Megan and Carrie talk to Ebony Joachim, at Living Languages, who runs professional development courses for Indigenous communities in Australia, about her work, language revitalization and documentation, and the languages of Australia. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 26 Aug 2019 | Your Language Sounds like it has a Drawbridge | 01:05:20 | |
Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Sadie Ryan, host of the Accentricity podcast, the podcast that examines the eccentricities of language and identity and how the way we talk connects to who we are. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 02 Mar 2020 | What's in a Name? | 00:55:53 | |
Carrie and Megan talk to Dr. Laurel MacKenzie, Assistant Professor at NYU, about all things names. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon. We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 10 Dec 2018 | The Latino Threat Narrative | 01:04:37 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Matthew Garley, Assistant Professor at CUNY, York College, about the use of Spanish and Spanglish in rap. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $1 a month and have our undying gratitude! Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/ , on tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/ and Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 14 Feb 2022 | Employing Linguistics | 00:23:18 | |
In this special (kind of bonus) episode, Dr Anna Marie Trester and Sophie Henry talk about Anna Marie's new book Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking about Careers for Linguists. Don't forget to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vocalfriespod/, on Tumblr at https://vocalfriespod.tumblr.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram at @vocalfriespod, and our website is www.vocalfriespod.com. Contact us:
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| 21 Feb 2022 | Myanmar? I Hardly Know Her! | 00:37:16 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Katie Craig about Myanmar/Burma, the languages spoken there and her organization Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners, which works with local communities to develop and celebrate these languages – and the people who speak them – in developing quality, locally relevant education in order to preserve languages and ways of life as well as to promote equality and social cohesion. Contact us:
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| 28 Mar 2022 | Save the Saguaro 🌵 | 00:51:54 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessica Hernandez, a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest, about her new book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science. Contact us:
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| 01 Apr 2022 | Hyper Specific Genres We Love | 00:34:17 | |
Renee and Natalia are back with a conversation about some of the books they love that fall into super niche genres. For example, Natalia has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books about bananas and Renee will never say no to a thriller with an unlikeable 20-something woman protagonist who works in a startup. Tune in to hear all the weird things they’re both into. Books Mentioned: Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang Diamond Head by Cecily Wong (interview here) Siren Queen by Nghi Vo Black Sun & Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (interview here) The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang Lobizona & Cazadora by Romina Garber (interview here) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoka Matsuda Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow Bad Blood by John Carreyrou We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams Self-Care by Leigh Stein The Assistants by Camille Perri The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris Smile and Look Pretty by Amanda Pellegrino A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin (interview here) Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster The Power of Knitting by Loretta Napoleoni (review here) Bananas, Beaches and Bases by Cynthia Enloe Contact us:
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| 04 Apr 2022 | FindingFive | 00:47:42 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Noah Nelson, trustee of FindingFive. FindingFive is a tech nonprofit that enables academic researchers to create and run online behavioral research studies in the cloud!
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| 02 May 2022 | Tongues | 01:05:08 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with two of the editors of Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language, Eufemia Fantetti, Professor of English at Humber College, and Ayelet Tsabari, who teaches creative writing at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and University of King’s College, about their new book, writing in English as a second language, Molisan, Hebrew, and Yemeni Arabic. Contact us:
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| 16 May 2022 | John Mary Bill Sue | 01:00:19 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Hadas Kotek, a linguist at Apple, about two of her papers: Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? and Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences.
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| 30 May 2022 | Reawakening Pentlatch | 00:51:27 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with the Working Pentlatch Revitalization team (Mathew Andreatta, Jessie Recalma, Chief Michael Recalma, and Dr Su Urbanczyk) about their work on reawakening Pentlatch, a Coast Salish language on Vancouver Island.
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| 13 Jun 2022 | Make Grammar Cool Again | 01:04:38 | |
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 about Language in the 21st Century.
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| 11 Jul 2022 | The Rickford Files | 00:57:08 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 08 Aug 2022 | Bulls, apes, bats and chickens | 00:58:23 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t". Contact us:
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| 29 Aug 2022 | The Duct Tape of Language | 01:04:08 | |
You asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About/Vocal Fries crossover event is here. Contact us:
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| 19 Sep 2022 | Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness | 00:55:01 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 17 Oct 2022 | Cruz Control | 00:58:01 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 07 Nov 2022 | Brasse pa lamèrd | 01:02:43 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 09 Dec 2022 | Bonus WOTY 2022 | 00:16:52 | |
Example bonus episode from November 2022. Contact us:
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| 12 Dec 2022 | Dr G Squared | 00:56:24 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 30 Jan 2023 | The Freeze Peach Paradox | 00:51:46 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 13 Feb 2023 | The People's Tongue | 00:56:37 | |
Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language. Contact us:
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| 13 Mar 2023 | Don't be an *, be a 🐈 | 00:57:45 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc. Background on phonic lips Contact us:
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| 17 Apr 2023 | Figgy, Gills and Bobby | 00:57:42 | |
Dr. Bob Kennedy is back! Carrie and Megan pick his brain about all things language in sports. Contact us:
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| 15 May 2023 | Like, Literally, Dude | 01:01:08 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 20 Jun 2023 | A Braille as Old as Time | 00:54:31 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille.
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| 10 Jul 2023 | Mental Fries/Vocal Floss | 00:49:27 | |
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 Etymologies
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| 03 Aug 2023 | Talking Tamarra | 00:46:06 | |
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 Termites on Gurindji Territory, why termites are important to Gurindji people, and why they wanted to work on this project.
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| 11 Sep 2023 | Shuffling off This Mortal Coil | 00:49:59 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 16 Oct 2023 | We All Country | 01:00:31 | |
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". Contact us:
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| 20 Nov 2023 | Don't Drown the Cat | 00:58:55 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Rebecca Roache about her book, For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun. Contact us:
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| 11 Dec 2023 | Werthwhile Language | 00:54:23 | |
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. Contact us:
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| 16 Jan 2024 | Linguistic Discrimination against Uyghurs in China | 00:50:12 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Lee Moore about the linguistic situation in China, particularly the hostile environment towards Uyghurs. Contact us:
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| 12 Feb 2024 | Braillians | 00:47:01 | |
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: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language, blind aliens, how languages can be, and her appreciation of the movie Arrival. Contact us:
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| 12 Mar 2024 | The Funnest Episode | 00:57:15 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Curzan about her book Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words. Contact us:
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| 15 Apr 2024 | Gorsh! We All Have Accents | 00:53:07 | |
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 Phonetics Lab (all at at the University of Kentucky), about their book English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States. Contact us:
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| 14 May 2024 | Uneffing the Binary | 01:01:54 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Kris Aric Knisley and Eric Louis Russell about their book Redoing linguistic worlds: Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender pluralities, gender, critical linguistics, trans linguistics, and uneffing all things. Contact us:
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| 24 Jun 2024 | Language City | 00:41:43 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Ross Perlin, co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, about his new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.
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| 15 Jul 2024 | Writing Beyond Writing | 00:53:12 | |
Megan and Carrie talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, Writing Beyond Writing, what writing is, his journey to caring about Endangered Alphabets and his favourite scripts. Contact us:
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| 23 Aug 2024 | Dogwhistles and Other Fig Leaves | 00:43:56 | |
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Henderson, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, about his newest book (with Dr Elin Mccready), Signaling without Saying: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistles. Contact us:
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