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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 Importance of Genetic Constraints in Writing

We tend to use nice natural strokes and quite often use alphabets. I mean, but clearly that's not a product of some writing instinct because writing's even around for a few thousand years. And it's also a fun of you have genetics, I think. We were talking about this in my department the other week: If you look at how geneticists study other parts of our genome and our body, it's very rare that you have like one gene that does one thing like that.

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