Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Dirt 81

In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.

Links

• What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

• The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak? (Sapiens)

• Introduction to Linguistics (UCLA Linguistics)

• Glottolog

• Map of Indo-European Languages (Wikimedia)

• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (via Google Books)

• The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis (Journal of Indo European Studies)

• Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)

• Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)

• Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European (Archaeology Magazine)

• Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?

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