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How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Intelligence Squared
How Does the Sound Structure of the Language Affect Learning Danish?
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Danish has a lot of hours and it also has a tendency for speakers to swallow the end of syllables such that in many cases you will lose a lot of information. And so what we found in experiments with children, for example, is that they have problems figuring out where words begin and end when they happen in these kind of long sort of vowel-like sequences. So there are essentially much more charades like in their language abilities. But does that bring advantages later on in life in some ways, like the ability to read context more easily?
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