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36: Journal Club: Clickety Clack (with Stephen Mann)

2021/9/13
logo of podcast Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Because Language team are talking through some of the most interesting research around, and you get to listen!

  • Valuable medical information gets lost when Indigenous languages are wiped out
  • When it comes to learning languages, multilinguals have the edge over bilinguals
  • A generativist argues that languages don't adapt to their environment. What's behind this?
  • And it's iconicity turned up to 11: some experiments that explore how language began.