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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 Poverty of the Stimulus

There is an argument that people make for nativism the idea that some language is inborn. People who are studying large language models are saying that look we gave a bunch of data without any kind of innate understanding of language. Any of this hard wiring to a computer and eat learn language and as Daniel was talking to Morton it learns language very well. It could be a good idea. People smarter than us. Can I do a dumb down version? Please.

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