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Peter Jones

Medieval Universities

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John Worrall

Popper and Kuhn on Theory Change

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Daniel Kontowski

Classical Education

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Marzena Szymanska

Superfluidity of Light

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Jonathan Birch

Animal Sentience

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Peter Jones

Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities

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Peter Jones

Education in the Middle Ages

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Jeffrey Taylor

Scientific Examination of Art

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Peter Jones

Student Life in the Medieval Universities

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

Grammatical Case: Morphology, Syntax, and Word Order

Andrej Malchukov on morphological and syntactic case, the relationship between case and word order, and hierarchy of cases

Grammatical Case: A Deceptively Simple Concept

Linguist Andrej Malchukov on functions of grammatical case, case systems, and their evolution

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

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

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

Speech Processing

Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on humans’ ability to distinguish sounds, bilingualism, and the Japanese language

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