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52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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How to Play a Game of Charades

"We're playing a game right now, we're watching each other on zoom, and we're listening to each other as well," he says. "What cues are you picking up right now in this game of charades that we're all playing? First of all, we're looking at each other's faces." And so these are all providing clues to how we communicate in a normal conversation,. In a normal dialogue, we use, for example, back channeling.

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