code-switching

The beauty of the bilingual brain

October 27, 2023 Culture, Education, Language, Think

Washington Post columnist Theresa Vargas and Sarah Phillips, a postdoctoral neurology scholar at Georgetown, join host Krys Boyd to discuss bilingualism in our culture and the neurological pathways that allow language switching to flow so freely.

You’re Being Judged By How You Talk

September 14, 2020 Culture, Language, Race/Identity

Katherine Kinzler, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, joins us to talk about the biased ways we view dialects and accents.