Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Ep 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? Contact Email the Dirt Podcast Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular