36: Journal Club: Clickety Clack (with Stephen Mann)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. · Daniel Midgley, Hedvig Skirgård, and Stephen Mann
September 13, 202153m 42sExplicit
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Show Notes
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.