181: The Science of Linguistics (with Tom Scott)

This week Tom Scott joins us to chat about linguistics, the scientific study of language. If you learn anything from this episode, let it be that a conversation with someone that likes linguistics is always going to go off the rails with as many tangents as possible... Grab our merch now: http://normalcitizen.store You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys Help keep the show running by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/sciguys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Website sciguys.co.uk TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@sciguys Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Follow the SCI GUYS @notcorry / @lukecutforth References & Further Reading https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/science-linguistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLXNzDUH58 https://linguistics.ucla.edu/undergraduate/what-is-linguistics/#:~:text=Linguistics%20is%20the%20scientific%20study,from%20other%20animal%20communication%20systems%3F https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-27346-1 https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/science-linguistics https://www.britannica.com/science/linguistics/The-20th-century https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=is+linguistics+a+science&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linguistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLXNzDUH58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet https://www.ipachart.com/ https://linguistics.ucla.edu/undergraduate/what-is-linguistics/#:~:text=Linguistics%20is%20the%20scientific%20study,from%20other%20animal%20communication%20systems%3F https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/why-study-linguistics https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2022/02/13/language-is-the-next-great-frontier-in-ai/ https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/why-major-linguistics#:~:text=Linguistics%20is%20a%20major%20that,%2C%20and%20meaning%20(semantics) . https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/phonetics/#:~:text=Phonetics%20is%20a%20branch%20of,teeth%2C%20to%20produce%20particular%20sounds . https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/phonology/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/difference-between-language-dialect/424704/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/language/Historical-attitudes-toward-language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockett%27s_design_features https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4544681/#:~:text=Hockett%20presented%20a%20list%20of,seven%20properties%20he%20identified%20previously.&text=To%20these%20he%20added%20vocal,feedback%2C%20semanticity%2C%20and%20discreteness . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232916/ https://www.thoughtco.com/syntax-grammar-1692182#:~:text=In%20linguistics%2C%20%22syntax%22%20refers,syntactic%20properties%20of%20a%20language . https://www.thoughtco.com/semantics-linguistics-1692080 https://www.britannica.com/science/pragmatics https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/features/schwa/