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38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Why Do We Need to Study Language to Answer the Big Question of Where Does Language Come From?

In the 70s when this was first taking off, this was a huge issue. How best to study language to answer the big question of where it comes from. And I think at this point in the year 2021, most people in our generation like Adam and me just don't care about that question. Like what we know is that regardless of the origins of language, babies come in ready to acquire language. So let's study it.

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