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thusiasm episode r and r like sounds rhoticity for more on the nose and scent check out our episode smell words both real and invented you can listen to this episode via lingthusiasm com soundcloud rss apple podcasts itunes spotify youtube or wherever you get your podcasts you can also download an mp3 via the soundcloud page for offline listening to receive an email whenever a new episode drops sign up for the lingthusiasm mailing list you can help keep lingthusiasm ad free get access to bonus content and more perks by supporting us on patreon lingthusiasm is on bluesky twitter instagram facebook mastodon and tumblr email us at contact at lingthusiasm dot com gretchen is on bluesky as gretchenmcc and blogs at all things linguistic lauren is on bluesky as superlinguo and blogs at superlinguo lingthusiasm is created by gretchen mcculloch and lauren gawne our senior producer is claire gawne our production editor is sarah dopierala our production assistant is martha tsutsui billins our editorial assistant is jon kruk and our technical editor is leah velleman our music is ancient city by the triangles this episode of lingthusiasm is made available under a creative commons attribution non commercial share alike license cc 4 0 by nc sa in this episode we follow our noses to end up covering a wide range of topics by laurengawne filed under linguistics language lingthusiasm podcast podcasts episodes episode 109 the nose nose nasals nasal sounds idioms gesture soundcloud 31 notes september 22 2025 lingthusiasm lingthusiasm episode 108 highs and lows of tone in babanki interview with pius akumbu linguistic research has its highs and lows from staging a traditional wedding to learn about ceremonial words to having your efforts to found a village school disrupted by civil war linguistic research can also be about highs and lows in this case looking at how high and low tones in babanki words affect their meaning in this episode your host lauren gawne gets enthusiastic about the highs and lows of fieldwork in babanki with dr pius akumbu who s a linguist from babanki cameroon and a director of research in african linguistics at cnrs in the llacan lab the languages and cultures of africa lab in paris france we talk about professor akumbu s documentation work on a wide variety of topics from the relationship of babanki to other grassfields and bantu languages what happens when words have a mysterious extra tone that is only produced under the right circumstances floating tones to that time he staged a false wedding to document traditional wedding ceremonial language and led to a real couple opting for a traditional style wedding of their own we also talk about the process of founding a school in his home village to ensure that children have access to primary education in their own language click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here announcements lingthusiasm has more than twenty interview episodes and 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