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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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Daniel Paud: We're making predictions and we're smoothing out the way for our listener whenever we can. Language also looks the way it does because of the amount of attention we're willing to expend. And also just working memory limitations influence the way language looks. This is a short part of a conversation that's been going on for about a week between me and Mark Ellison, which will continue until Mark goes home. I'd like to give a quick shout out to our top patrons - Tin, Termee, Elias, Matt, Whitney, Helen, Jack, Pharaoh, Kat, Lord, Mortis, Grammar,. Yen, Larry, Christopher, Andy B, James, Nigel

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