But enough from me and my unnatural introduction. I spoke with two researchers about interjections, and I kicked things off the way I typically do for podcast interviews: Adam Levy: To start with, ...

One night last week, I explained to a youthful hotel desk clerk that my family and I were interested in playing cards up in our room, then asked her if the hotel had a deck. She made this sound:. Then ...

Some parts of speech get lots of attention from language researchers. Nouns and verbs certainly do, and this seems appropriate, given that they refer to the objects and the actions that make up our ...

Finn accepts a challenge by Feifei to speak using only interjections. Does he manage to do this? Listen to the programme to find out. The sounds are followed by facial expressions Feifei: Hello, Finn.

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

The trailer of Netflix’s Tribhanga: Tedhi Medhi Crazy has been stirring up quite a lot of conversation since it dropped. Watching Kunaal Roy Kapur get that Hindi right has been a transition that no ...