Can you repeat that? We didn’t quite catch- what?! WHAT?!?

For many of us, hearing is an essential component of language & communication. Unfortunately, the research is in, and the modern world is louder than ever. From industrial noise pollution, to jam-packed crowded cities to personal devices that deliver sound straight to our eardrums, protecting our hearing has never been more important. And no, we’re not just talking about our grandparents’ hearing. Modern developments have made it so that today’s young people are at an increased risk of losing their hearing, and at a faster rate than previous generations.

In this episode, Emily & Aidan are joined by audiologist and University of Connecticut doctoral student Alexa Kolias to discuss how to (safely) navigate a noisy and chaotic auditory world.

A HUGE thank you to listener Nicole for submitting today’s LingQuery!

Do YOU have a burning question about the language & communication sciences that you’d like to see featured on the show? Record your own audio “LingQuery” and DM it to @lingquery_pod on IG.

Welcome to LingQuery, the show that asks - and attempts to answer - questions related to the language and communication sciences. Every episode, we respond in tandem with guests from a wide variety of disciplines to an audience-submitted question or “LingQuery”, all about human communication and its array of interrelated systems and modalities. Uncovering fascinating insights and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else, this series explores the nature of phenomena such as speech, language, and cognition from the perspectives of biology, psychology, anthropology, art, and more. LingQuery, listen wherever you get your pods.

Produced by LittleFire.

Directed & edited by Raz Cunningham

Co-written & co-hosted by Aidan Laliberte & Emily Tuohey