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Why Language is Always Changing with Valerie Fridland
Factually! with Adam Conover
The Role of Modifiers in Language
There's a particular order of modifiers or adjectives in English that if I were to say you know the big red scaly British dragon right those words all come in a particular order. language is fundamentally a different skill than writing and we shouldn't expect the same rules to apply. We are born with some capacity for language there do seem to be some fundamental structures that help guide the way that baby's brains process for language but it's not language exclusive it's learning exclusive, he says.
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