The Military History of Ideas
Sociologist Viktor Vakhshtayn on the Wittgensteinian turn, betrayal of ideas, and how the unit became a number
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Animals and Human Communication
Linguist David Adger on sound processing in animals, bonobo Kanzi and the nature of linguistic differences bet...
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AI
July 28, 2020
Language and Artificial Intelligence
Linguist David Adger on the Facebook chatbots experiment, the history of getting the AI to understand and spea...
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June 30, 2020
The Nature of Language
Linguist David Adger on the similarities between all the languages, creation of the new grammatical rules and ...
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December 5, 2018
Grammatical Case: Morphology, Syntax, and Word Ord...
Andrej Malchukov on morphological and syntactic case, the relationship between case and word order, and hierar...
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December 5, 2018
Grammatical Case: A Deceptively Simple Concept
Linguist Andrej Malchukov on functions of grammatical case, case systems, and their evolution
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psychology
July 18, 2018
Language Acquisition in Children
Psychologist Ben Ambridge on the difficulties with learning languages, a critical period for a new language ac...
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psychology
July 5, 2018
Two Theories of Language Acquisition
Psychologist Ben Ambridge on the Chomskyan concept of the universal grammar, the constructivist approach to la...
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culture
December 7, 2017
Eskimo-Aleut Languages
Linguist Michael David Fortescue on the rare polysynthesis of the Eskimo languages, the role of affixes in the...
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history
September 1, 2017
Hebrew
Shlomo Izre'el on the myths about the Hebrew language, its relations with Yiddish, and how children teach thei...
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biology
August 11, 2017
Speech Processing
Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on humans’ ability to distinguish sounds, bilingualism, and the Japanese language
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linguistics
November 1, 2016
Australian Languages
Linguist Nicholas Evans on indigenous languages in Australia, their kinship systems and the problem of monolin...
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