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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

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How Different Sign Languages Solve Different Problems

The study of gesture has just come on the scene in the last couple of decades. It's something that people didn't use to look at in language at all. So, speakers of different languages do gesture differently. There are many different sign languages in the world and they're very interesting. We have a question from Holly: What experiment would you love to do but can't?

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