133: Why We Talk Funny (with Valerie Fridland)

We all have an accent — or several! And we use them to communicate things about us, and highlight aspects of our identity. So what's going on with the accents we hear? Are we losing some accents, or are they just changing? Dr Valerie Fridland is the author of Why We Talk Funny, and she joins us for this episode. Timestamps Start: 0:00 Intros: 0:30 News: 6:25 Related or Not: 17:59 Interview with Valerie Fridland: 36:53 Words of the Week: 1:50:34 The Reads: 2:21:21 Outtakes: 2:26:14

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133: Why We Talk Funny (with Valerie Fridland) is an episode from Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. by Daniel Midgley.

This episode is 02:27:31 long.

This episode was published on Feb 26, 2026.

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