Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)

May 11, 2022

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Introduction

2min

The Relationship Between Sound and Meaning

2min

The Connection Between Language and Autonomous Driving

2min

The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

2min

The Dark Side of Freedom of Expression

3min

The Sharad Lake Nature of Language

2min

The Importance of Language Change

3min

The Anti-Trans and Right Wing Authoritarians' Shenanigans

2min

The Impossible Definition of X

2min

10.

The Effect of Fox News on CNN Viewers

2min

11.

The Effect of Language on Stereotypes

2min

12.

How to Cultivate a Fun Feed on Media

2min

13.

The ABC's False Equivalency

2min

14.

The Effect of Social Media on Your Opinion

2min

15.

Meta's Universal Artificial Intelligence Translator

2min

16.

The Future of Machine Translation

2min

17.

The Future of Translation

2min

18.

The Digital Tech Revolution Will Benefit Low Resource Languages

2min

19.

The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

3min

20.

How to Play a Game of Charades

2min

21.

The Importance of Predicting What Other People Are Saying

2min

22.

The Future of Communication

3min

23.

The Power of Smart Ideas

2min

24.

The Construction Grammar Approach to Language Acquisition

2min

25.

The Importance of Language in Adult Communication

2min

26.

The Use of Language for Communication

3min

27.

The Impact of Language on Thinking

3min

28.

The Constraints on Language Evolution

2min

29.

The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument

5min

30.

The Importance of Genetic Constraints in Writing

2min

31.

The Evolution of Language

2min

32.

The Language Instinct Story

2min

33.

The Language Game

2min

34.

Cocky Dundas

2min

35.

Aristotle's Goblin Mode

2min

36.

Camilloso: A Non-Word

2min

37.

The Puzzle of Danish

2min

38.

The Differences Between Norwegians and Danes

2min

39.

Non Autistic or Allistic?

2min

40.

The Negative Connotation of Being Autistic

2min

41.

The Importance of Being Non-Threatening

2min

42.

The Disagreement of Pokemon Names

2min

43.

The Importance of Sociability in Science

2min

44.

How to Get in Touch With Us

1min

45.

The Dark Academia of Music and Fashion

5min

How is language like a game of charades? According to a new book, quite a lot. Charades players and language users improvise and work together to create meaning in a situation, and they get better at it as they reuse elements and build up patterns.

Drs Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater explain their vision of language to Daniel and Hedvig on this episode of Because Language.

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