Linguistically Aware – Episode March 10, 2026

Program: Linguistically Aware

Length: 36 minutes

What’s your mouth doing right now?: The scientific study of speech sounds

Brooklyn sits down with Dr. Stephen Winters - the University of Calgary's phonetician who walks us through how speech sounds are made, why languages sound so different from one another, and how phonetics plays a role in speech recognition, language learning, and speech therapy.