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68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)

Jan 3, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What Is Prominence in Language?
02:10 • 2min
3
How Did You Find Your Way Through the Elimination of the Weakest Thing?
03:44 • 3min
4
What Made You Stick With Language?
06:29 • 3min
5
The Loon of Language
09:31 • 2min
6
The Obsession With Language
11:20 • 3min
7
The Four-Dimensional Structure of Language
14:10 • 2min
8
Conversational Communication - Is There a Richer Model of Communication?
15:51 • 2min
9
Using Pictionary in a Conversational Environment
18:14 • 2min
10
What's Preserved in the Shortened Drawings?
20:39 • 2min
11
Is There a Museum?
22:11 • 2min
12
Do You Have a Bit That You Do on Redundancy?
23:51 • 2min
13
The Third Alternative Is Selectional Restrictions
26:06 • 3min
14
Redundancy Is Not a Bad Thing in Language
29:11 • 2min
15
Using Metaphors in Languages
30:49 • 2min
16
You Can't Omit So Much When You Use Metaphorically
32:54 • 2min
17
I Have a Letter to Write, I Have to Write?
35:01 • 3min
18
What's the Impact of Different Intensities on a Person's Speech?
37:36 • 2min
19
What Is the Impact of a Sequence of Nine Digits Without Any Repeats?
39:33 • 4min
20
Can I Predict When You Use Flat Intonation?
43:38 • 3min
21
The Best Remembered Sequences
46:43 • 2min
22
I Don't Think Mary Takes the Book. I Think John Takes the Book. Yeah.
48:29 • 2min
23
When Things Don't Match Up, You Remember Better
50:54 • 2min
24
The Bachelor's Handbag
53:12 • 2min
25
What Is a Leaf?
54:58 • 2min
26
What Is the Picture Game?
56:53 • 2min
27
Is Your Attention Focused?
58:27 • 2min
28
Keeping Dependencies Close to Each Other
01:00:21 • 2min
29
How to Get the Related Words Nearer to the Verb
01:02:02 • 3min
30
How to Start a New Sentence
01:04:52 • 2min
31
How to Communicate Effectively With Someone
01:06:50 • 3min
32
Redundancy Helps Us Communicate Better
01:09:52 • 3min
33
The Redundancy of a Channel
01:12:59 • 3min
34
Exactly. You Don't Know the Transition Probabilities From Word to Word
01:15:44 • 3min
35
Language Bonus Episodes
01:18:36 • 3min