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73: Consequences of Language (with Nick Enfield and Morten Christiansen)

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

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The Importance of Intersubjectivity in Language

Hedwig: If this is what we're able to do with language imagine how fucked it was beforehand yeah totally very thin very in the now it's just like what is around me true maybe it was just way better and then maybe like circadian rhythms like maybe we could do that be like my cats for example they know that when I wake up that is an event that is associated with certain actions but yeah yeah maybe people when language first started they were like oh I can't keep track of this new technology well Hedwig.

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