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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 Construction Grammar Approach to Language Acquisition

The idea of language games touches on a lot of things, like not only how language began. But it also reminds me of how children acquire language. Could you tell us a little bit about the child language acquisition? In the book, you mentioned construction grammars, but I'm not really sure I'm on top of that. Do you want to put that more than I should I? Well, you can start. Yeah. The thing about the construction grammar approach goes to the opposite way. It says, no, no, rather like the charade story, you build up a language by learning the pieces. And so you create this thing gradually.

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