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In this episode of Linguistics with Laura, we’ll talk about one of the most important aspects of language: semantics. This sixth episode will explain the difference between homophones, heterographs, and homonyms as well as polysemy, auto-antonyms, tautologies, contradictions, anomalies, metaphors, …

This episode will answer a key question in linguistics that has probably come up in your everyday life, whether you realize it or not. We’ll discuss language prescriptivism as well as its antithesis, language descriptivism. Tune in to learn both the short and long answer to the question of whether …

In this episode, we’ll cover all the fundamental aspects of morphology, the study of word formation. By the end of this episode, you’ll know what people mean when they talk about morphemes, roots, affixes, and the like. Tune in to find out what makes a word a word.

This episode of Linguistics with Laura covers the complex linguistic topic of syntax, also known as sentence structure. Tune in to learn about noun phrases, verb phrases, verb tenses, complementizer phrases, different types of verbs, syntactic ambiguity, and more.