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Hi! 👋 Linguistic Discovery is all about the science and diversity of language! 🗣️🧏🏼

I (Danny Hieber, Ph.D. in linguistics) post about the latest science news in linguistics, how language works, why it changes, and the diverse ways that different languages do things!

This channel also highlights minority and indigenous languages whenever possible!

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What to do when someone corrects your pronunciation

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The etymology of ‘one’: From Proto-Indo-European to Modern English

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Did Kanzi the bonobo understand language?

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What alien languages can teach us about human languages: The linguistics of “The Three-Body Problem”

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From counting to cuneiform: How writing was invented

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The history of “Young Adult Literature”: Don & Danny Explain

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Where do writing systems come from? Writing as technology

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"dairy milk": What are retronyms?

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The development of color terminology

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The Grimm Brothers & The birth of modern linguistics

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Catalogue of the World's Endangered Languages

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The Poverty of the Stimulus & Artificial Intelligence

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AI taught to learn words like a baby

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“Everything is so expensive anymore”: The linguistics of “positive anymore”

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When are words added to the dictionary?

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Latin is a language, not a logic puzzle

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Good at focusing? You may be bilingual

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Can we make a phonetic spelling system for English?

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Most of English vocabulary is borrowed

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PSA: Don't be judgy about grammar

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"It was 7:30 whenever I ate breakfast this morning": Punctual "whenever"

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Chinese isn't (technically) a language

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If you understand it, it’s correct (maybe)

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What’s the best dictionary?

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(Not) anything goes: Not all pronunciations are correct

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What’s the correct pronunciation of “pecan”?

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Preview: What are verb templates? [bonus video]

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Did Egyptian hieroglyphics come from cuneiform?

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The linguistics of “Prometheus”

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How did California get so many languages?

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Could Neanderthals hear human speech? New research says “yes”

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Letters that make your lips touch (and why!)

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Where does the name "Appalachia" come from?

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Borrowing grammar rather than words

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The same sound or different sounds? Allophones & Allophony

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Why is English so inconsistent? Hamburgers, French Fries, Geese and Meese

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Linguistics Valentine Poem

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Pronouncing a word you've only read: Spelling Pronunciations

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How to tell someone is from Chicago based on how they speak

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Do older languages have fewer sounds?

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Why grammatical gender isn't what you think: The Papuan Languages, Part 6: Nouns & Gender

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A language with only 100 verbs: The Papuan Languages, Part 5: Complex Verbs

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An entire sentence in one word: The Papuan Languages, Part 4: Verbs

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Languages without basic sounds: The Papuan Languages, Part 3: Sound Systems

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How to count to 74 on your body: Papuan Languages, Part 2: Counting

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The most linguistically diverse country in the world: Papuan Languages, Part 1

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Why I hate conlangs

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Words you didn’t know are related: gold, yellow, cholera, arsenic, yolk, and more!

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Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian

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The many senses of "run"

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shrinkage

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How lapis lazuli led to a word for ‘blue’

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No Native American languages in the Eastern U.S.?

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Preparing for grad school in linguistics

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Is the Southern accent disappearing?

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The language lacuna in North America

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Words from Hell [book preview]

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Distinctions Between Things: Linguistics Edition

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Philology vs. Linguistics: What's the difference?

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What is Zipf's Law in linguistics?

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