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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Brain Language Research
    Neuroscientist Friedemann Pulvermüller on brain-language relations, brain lesions, and simulation of cognitive processes
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    Dyslexia
    Developmental psychologist Uta Frith on the detection of dyslexia in children, difficulties with sound recognition, and the heritability of the disease
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    Hebrew
    Shlomo Izre'el on the myths about the Hebrew language, its relations with Yiddish, and how children teach their parents
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    Speech Processing
    Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on humans’ ability to distinguish sounds, bilingualism, and the Japanese language
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