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Animals and Human Communication

Linguist David Adger on sound processing in animals, bonobo Kanzi and the nature of linguistic differences between animals and humans

Language and Artificial Intelligence

Linguist David Adger on the Facebook chatbots experiment, the history of getting the AI to understand and speak human languages and what’s the difference between humans and computers in using language

The Nature of Language

Linguist David Adger on the similarities between all the languages, creation of the new grammatical rules and how social factors affect your word choice

Language Acquisition in Children

Psychologist Ben Ambridge on the difficulties with learning languages, a critical period for a new language acquisition, and the role of computational models in a linguistic research

Two Theories of Language Acquisition

Psychologist Ben Ambridge on the Chomskyan concept of the universal grammar, the constructivist approach to language acquisition, and grammatical similarities across different languages

Plasticity in Speech Perception

Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on how people speak the same language differently, adaptation to the new sounds, and the impact of social factors on sound processing

Eskimo-Aleut Languages

Linguist Michael David Fortescue on the rare polysynthesis of the Eskimo languages, the role of affixes in them, and the prognosis for their survival

Brain Language Research

Neuroscientist Friedemann Pulvermüller on brain-language relations, brain lesions, and simulation of cognitive processes

Developmental psychologist Uta Frith on the detection of dyslexia in children, difficulties with sound recognition, and the heritability of the disease

Shlomo Izre'el on the myths about the Hebrew language, its relations with Yiddish, and how children teach their parents

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