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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?
Modern Wisdom
The Complexity of Languages
Languages don't always simplify over time. A lot of times through language contact, they get more complex. It's this constant battle between what's good for us as language speakers and making it easier to communicate in the most efficient way possible. So I think one thing they'd be careful of is when we're talking about complexity here,. We're talking about morphosyntactic or phonological complexity. There's different types of complexity you can gain.
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