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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?

Modern Wisdom

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The Role of Language in Language Development

Valerie Friedland is a sociolinguist. She studies the underlying linguistic patterns that we take for granted and don't even notice anymore. Why do languages change at all? We have underlying cognitive and articulatory pressures that constantly affect us as speakers, she says. And in the end, it's the cosmic language change that results,. So language has always had these pressures on it. It hasn't changed, but some social stuff does.

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