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The Psychology of Language, with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater
Intelligence Squared
Is There a One True Language?
Some speakers of British English fear that the creeping Americanization of English is threatening their language. Morton: There's a sense that there's a one true language and we all ought to speak it, but it doesn't really have any proper basis. Language scientists in general have always been pushing very hard against this idea that there’s a right way to speak," he says.
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