![]() Which contains the only two syllables that are possible in the Chinese Zhao Yuanren/Yuen Ren Chao, such a cool Chinese linguist (he also translated Jabberwocky! and gave his daughter the name Lensey,.Hacking Chinese post ‘7 ways to write Mandarin tones’.All Things Linguistic post on understanding tone as a non-tone language speaker.‘Tone’ by Moira Yip, for information on prevalence of tone in the worlds languages.All Things Linguistic post on transfer features of our intonation into writing.Falling question intonation in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and Hawaiʻi Creole English.Gender Reveal episode on the social dynamics of pitch and other features with regard to gender.Original tumblr post on New Internet Grammar question marks from Formal definitions of tone and intonation from the Routledge handbook.Here are the links mentioned in the episode: With other language nerds! Our patrons let us keep making the mainĮpisodes free for everyone and we really appreciate every level of Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 70+ other bonus episodes,Īs well as access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat Languages, and how neopronouns are often made by recycling bits from a How people are doing gender-neutral and nonbinary things across related Versions of sir/ma'am and dude/bro, why linguistic gender even exists, Things related to language and gender, including: gender-neutral Host Gretchen gets enthusiastic about how languages do gender with ![]() Recorded as a liveshow on the Lingthusiasm patron Discord server, your In this month’s bonus episode, originally Metaphor – could we start calling tones “thin” and “thick” or “big” Internet creations), how tone interacts with lyrics/melody in songs,Īnd how “high” versus “low” tone is actually a culturally-specific Finally, we talk about the many, many optionsįor writing tone and intonation (from highly technical proposals to fun We also talk about things languages do with tones,įrom changing meanings of individual words to indicating grammatical List, floor-holding, emphasis, enthusiasm, and sarcasm, and howĭifferent languages use different shapes of intonation contours forįunctions like these. We talk about various meanings of intonation, such as question, Gawne get enthusiastic about tone, intonation, and the combination of In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren (high mā) and horse (low rising mǎ) in Mandarin, linguists call it Meaning of an individual word, such as the difference between mother Meaning of the whole phrase, such as rising to indicate a question inĮnglish, linguists call it intonation. Spoken languages can change the pitch or melody of words to convey Lingthusiasm: Episode 79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation! Listen to this episode about the results of the 2022 Lingthusiasm Survey and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon. We also talk about synesthesia fomo, whether people respond differently to kiki/bouba depending on whether they’re aware of them as a meme, complicating the “where is a frown?” map, the plural of emoji, and more! Also about 1 in 5 people answered some version of “all of them?” to the “what languages are you interested in?” question, which was honestly unfair of us to make you pick. First, some demographics: we had respondents from over 50 countries, in which Canada and Australia are tied (phew!), and a mix of genders, in which about 1 in 5 respondents are not a binary gender (including nonbinary, agender, and genderqueer from responses to the “other” category it looks like we should add genderfluid for next year!). In this bonus episode, Lauren and Gretchen get excited about the results of the 2022 Lingthusiasm Survey. Thank you to the over 1000 people who filled it out! We have ethics approval for 3 years, so if you missed it this time around, keep an eye out in the future! In late 2022, we ran our first Lingthusiasm audience survey! We wanted to get to know you better and try out some linguistic experiments with you, so we got formal ethics approval from La Trobe University in case we want to use any of these findings in a research paper later.
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