52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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The Constraints on Language Evolution
The constraints on language evolution really are more broad. They're based on the cognitive system, the way our bodies work. But they're still constrained nonetheless. And so there are going to be certain things that are easier for us to do than others. That might come into these languages, such as, for example, the word order patterns that we see.
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