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68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)

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

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Exactly. You Don't Know the Transition Probabilities From Word to Word

You weren't able to take advantage of all the redundancy that was in there because you were unaware of what it even was. It takes, when we learn words, we learn they just list the call meaning of the word. And they don't tell you about the selectional restrictions. You're only going to acquire it unconsciously through experience. But this relates to actually one thing that a friend of mine who's had a stroke this year and is trying to claw back his language facility again. Fortunately, he's able to communicate well, but he's slow. I think he can do if he can just read aloud text and practice that. Then that will help him retune other neurons with the

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