52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. · Daniel Midgley and Hedvig Skirgård
May 11, 20221h 31mExplicit
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Show Notes
How is language like a game of charades? According to a new book, quite a lot. Charades players and language users improvise and work together to create meaning in a situation, and they get better at it as they reuse elements and build up patterns.
Drs Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater explain their vision of language to Daniel and Hedvig on this episode of Because Language.