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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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The Four-Dimensional Structure of Language

I'm interested in the four-dimensional structure of language, particularly as it's embedded in or relates to cognitive processing. I'm interested in what happens right now when we use language. One is one way of dealing with that one boundary in thefour-dimensional space of language. Four-dimensional space, meaning space and time. Mostly we're two-dimensional on the surface of the earth, but hey, some people live in high places. And I'minterested in what happensright now when we using language.

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