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 That’s because we’re making use of the way that we can change the melody of words that we’re saying.Įpisode 79: Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation! Lauren: We’ve said the word “ice cream” with a whole bunch of different intonation that’s given it different meaning. Lauren: We can use those pitch contours with a whole bunch of different words to give them a different spin. Gretchen: So, here’s one word, “hey,” and it’s got a bunch of different vibes depending on what pitch contour we’re using with it. Gretchen: To get access to this bonus episode and many, many other bonus episodes to listen to go to /lingthusiasm. Lauren: Thanks to all the patrons who attended, asked excellent questions, and also helped support us by keeping the show ad-free. Kirby Conrod about language and gender that we held as part of LingFest. But first, our most recent bonus episode was a recording of our liveshow with Dr. Today, we’re getting enthusiastic about the melodies of words. Lauren: Welcome to Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics! I’m Lauren Gawne. Links to studies mentioned and further reading can be found on the episode show notes page. Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s been lightly edited for readability. This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm episode ‘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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