
Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from
Generally Intelligent
Language Acquisition
English and French have very similar vowel spaces, except that in French, most of the vowels are rounded. If you don't speak a language, but you hear a continuous stream of speech, we'll be able to figure out where the at least one word boundary is because the or the French speaker is going to proceed a word. I was like, it's running right before, specifically a low frequency new to the conversation word. So very useful. You can draw all sorts of other inferences from the. But it can tell you why their speeches are hearsed. There's so much extra information in there that I think probably is very helpful for learning language. And also for understanding what
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