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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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The Use of Language for Communication

Most of the sentence you say, you've said something quite similar to it before. You're not saying unique and you never uttered before it sentences all the time. We can use language to say new things but they're typically phrased in terms of what has come before. The idea that by having a phonology say and a particular set of syntactic instructions is somehow helping shape your thoughts or is allowing for possible is pretty peculiar.

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