PsychTalk: Ethnic Miscategorization & Linguistics

Ethnic Miscategorization:  Listen here

Ever thought Antonio Banderas was Mexican? Well you were wrong.* It’s okay–we’re all guilty of miscategorizing people sometimes. But how does Antonio feel? Find out from Matt Trujillo, a Princeton grad student in the Joint Degree Program of Psychology and Social Policy. *Antonio Banderas is from Spain.

Linguistics and P’urhépecha: Listen here

Why don’t linguists care much about “correct” grammar? What do they do in their free time? Why don’t they all speak a bunch of languages? This and more courtesy of Erik Zyman Carrasco, a Princeton senior majoring in linguistics. And starting at minute 13:32, hear about Erik’s research on P’urhépecha, a language isolate in southern Mexico.