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52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
The Language Instinct Story
The B-weivelled answer is just the same for every B which is given the genetic leap from the same species. And that will be true across communicative systems in the animal kingdom. So one of the things in the morning I always quite fond of is that the language instinct story works pretty well for bees, but it's not so good for people.
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