(Selected)
On accent and credibility:
- The Conversation (article), December 2021 – Here’s why people might discriminate against foreign accents – new research
- The Conversation Weekly (podcast – starts at 31:41) , January 2022
- Scientific American, Spetember 2010 – Why the Brain Doubts a Foreign Accent
- The New York Times – August 2010 – A Failure to Communicate
- ABC, june 2010 – The Truth Behind Thick Accents: Foreigners Judged Less Truthful
- Reuters
On the influence of community size on linguistic structure:
- The Economist, August 8, 2019 – Why widely spoken languages have simpler grammar
- The Times, July 19, 2019 – Why Welsh is harder to learn than Spanish
- The Sunday Post, July 21, 2019
On the sounds of swear words:
- New York Times, December 2022 – Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common (We Swear)
- CNN, December 2022 – Swear words in different languages have one thing in common
- Scientific American, December 2022 – The Linguistics of Swearing Explain Why We Substitute Darn for Damn
- TIME Magazine, December 2022 – Here’s Why Curse Words Sound the Way They Do
- All Things Considered (NPR radio show), December 2022
- Quirks and Quarks (Canadian science radio show), December
- The Times, December 2022 – How swear words pack their punch: it’s all about the right sound
- Mental Floss, December 2022 – What Makes Swear Words So $#%+@&! Offensive? Scientists Have Found a Clue
On apologies
- The Times , Septemeber 2025- Repentant, not sorry: why bigger words are better for apologies
- Radio 4 (BBC) PM show with Tom Baker, September 2025 – (starts at 51min:30sec)
- Radio 5 (BBC) Late night show with Tony Livesey, September 2025 – Interview (starts at 1h:26min)
- Vanity Fair Italy, July 2025 (in Italian) – Come chiedere scusa in modo efficace? Meglio usare parole lunghe e di uso comune
- The Guardian, June 2025 – How sorry are you? Why learning to apologise well could save your relationships
- Inspirit (BBC Radio London), May 2025 – Interview (starts at 2h:40m)
Other coverage
- The Times, May 2023 – Linguists find big things are named with small words around the world
- Aussie English (podcast), January 2022 – General overview of research in the lab
- NRCQ (NRC Handelsbald), July, 2015 (in Dutch) – Jouw steenkolen-Engels kan een deal verputsen