(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

• Science Quickly (the podcast of Scientific American), October 2025 – The Science of a Convincing Sorry
• The Guardian, September 2025  – Long-winded apologies seem more sincere, study suggests
• 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)
• Wissen aktuell (Austrian science radio show), September 23, 2025 (in German)
• Radio Ulster (daily pm show), October 2, 2025
• 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