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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 Evolution of Language

If you postulate that language is a part of our genetic human inheritance, it becomes very difficult to explain why language would number one change over time. And number two, why it would vary between communities. So if you viewed language as a series of improvisational games, then it becomes easy to explain whylanguage changes. But they don't think it does. It's not in ways that they think are interesting, but I think that they are interesting.

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