How slang catches on, survives, and fades:
The schwa is never stressed? Ridiculous, says Geoff Lindsey:
What America got wrong about Ebonics:
How dialect coaches put the accent on performances:
The hidden rules of conversation: a primer on Grice’s maxims:
What motivates polyglots to learn new languages:
For more like this, see ‘Seven videos about language’ from last year, ‘Six videos about language’ from further back, or browse the video tag in the Sentence first archive.