The Importance of Language in Adult Communication

Hedwig: I've built a computational model that takes small chunks of language and can use that both to capture aspects of comprehension, but also to do production. We are able to model the acquisition of language as essentially learning to sort of pick up on these kind of chunks or constructions across 29 old world languages. And we can actually account for about at least 50% of almost everything we say just by looking at small chunks of that are reused little form of language sequences that we use again and again. That's where we think there's this nice connection between the two.