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