Who Is the Linguist?
The Director
Rick Rickerson is the director and voice of the Five-Minute Linguist.
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Principal Consultants
Joan Mack is the producer and hostess of Conversations, a popular and respected interview program, on the air in South Carolina for the past ten years.
Amelia Murdoch is a retired federal linguist, lifelong learner of French and President, National Museum of Language.
Barry Hilton describes himself modestly as an "armchair philologist and recovering polyglot." He is master of Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese and several other languages.
Who Is the 5-Minute Linguist?
"The Linguist" is not a single person, but a cross-section of the language profession that has come together to produce this show. Talkin' About Talk is a collective effort by language experts from all parts of the country.
The Review Board
Joan Bybee is a Professor of Spanish at New Mexico State and President, Linguistic Society of America.
Frank Borchardt is a Professor of German at Duke University and Past Director of the Computer Assisted Learning and Instruction Consortium (CALICO).
Barry Hilton see "Principal Consultants"
Sheri Spaine Long is the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and serves as a member of the Executive Council for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
The Writers
Scripts for the series were written by a consortium of 45 members of the diverse language community in the U.S. and U.K., including university professors, federal linguists, language teachers, free-lance writers, and linguists in the field. (See the Authors list)