Episode 7: Lingo-Existential Crisis

Knut and Chris get out of bed utrolig tidlig to try and add a different flavour (coffee) to the podcast. This week: language. Topics include the appropriateness of choosing one's own accent or dialect in Norwegian and English, and why spoken Norwegian sounds like someone trying to put on their other shoe.

Knut and Chris get out of bed utrolig tidlig to try and add a different flavour (coffee) to the podcast. This week: language. Topics include the appropriateness of choosing one's own accent or dialect in Norwegian and English, and why spoken Norwegian sounds like someone trying to put on their other shoe.

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Paris syndrome - WikipediaStephen Pinker: The Language Instinct - WikipediaPacing of syllables in a language: Isochrony - WikipediaNorwegian dialects - WikipediaTable - Municipalities, by language used in administration. Bokmål and nynorsk (SY 236)Norwegian: Bokmål vs. NynorskWhen is Norwegian not Norwegian? - Life in NorwayThe effect of bidialectal literacy on school achievement: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: Vol 0, No 0 — The finding is that municipalities with Nynorsk pupils have better than average results in national tests once socio-economic factors are taken into consideration. We suggest that this may be seen as an effect of the ‘bilingual advantage’ in cognitive development and that such advantage may arise even in the case of closely related linguistic varieties.How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain?Welsh language - WikipediaScottish Gaelic - WikipediaCritical period (for language acquisition) - WikipediaThe Third Gender | Norwegian Language BlogHow different are Bokmål and Nynorsk? - QuoraThe Norwegian R-sound - YouTubeGuttural R - WikipediaNorwegian accents and dialects - YouTubeLinguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) - WikipediaHow To Count Anything In JapaneseTwin Peaks - those Norwegians II - YouTubeThorbjørn Jagland - Nobel Peace Prize Announcement 2013 - YouTubeReceived Pronunciation (British "RP" accent) - WikipediaLilyhammer (TV Series 2012–2014) - IMDb — Knut's Cultural Pick of the WeekJaga Jazzist - Wikipedia — Chris's Cultural Pick of the WeekVenstrehåndsarbeid and Cack-handed | Dictionary and Thesaurus — Chris's Word of the Weekrøynd - Wiktionary — Knut's Word of the Week