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

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

Jan 3, 2023

01:22:06

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Introduction

2min

What Is Prominence in Language?

2min

How Did You Find Your Way Through the Elimination of the Weakest Thing?

3min

What Made You Stick With Language?

3min

The Loon of Language

2min

The Obsession With Language

3min

The Four-Dimensional Structure of Language

2min

Conversational Communication - Is There a Richer Model of Communication?

2min

Using Pictionary in a Conversational Environment

2min

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What's Preserved in the Shortened Drawings?

2min

11.

Is There a Museum?

2min

12.

Do You Have a Bit That You Do on Redundancy?

2min

13.

The Third Alternative Is Selectional Restrictions

3min

14.

Redundancy Is Not a Bad Thing in Language

2min

15.

Using Metaphors in Languages

2min

16.

You Can't Omit So Much When You Use Metaphorically

2min

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I Have a Letter to Write, I Have to Write?

3min

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What's the Impact of Different Intensities on a Person's Speech?

2min

19.

What Is the Impact of a Sequence of Nine Digits Without Any Repeats?

4min

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Can I Predict When You Use Flat Intonation?

3min

21.

The Best Remembered Sequences

2min

22.

I Don't Think Mary Takes the Book. I Think John Takes the Book. Yeah.

2min

23.

When Things Don't Match Up, You Remember Better

2min

24.

The Bachelor's Handbag

2min

25.

What Is a Leaf?

2min

26.

What Is the Picture Game?

2min

27.

Is Your Attention Focused?

2min

28.

Keeping Dependencies Close to Each Other

2min

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How to Get the Related Words Nearer to the Verb

3min

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How to Start a New Sentence

2min

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How to Communicate Effectively With Someone

3min

32.

Redundancy Helps Us Communicate Better

3min

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The Redundancy of a Channel

3min

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Exactly. You Don't Know the Transition Probabilities From Word to Word

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In what was meant to be a casual chat, cognitive scientist Dr Mark Ellison answers galaxy-brain-level questions about how language works.

Why aren't we more efficient with language?
How do we know when something has gone wrong in a conversation?
Why don't we just talk in a flat monotone all the time?
Why do fairy tales start a certain way?
Why is it so tiring to speak another language?

Fortunately, he helps us keep our eyes on the ball for this episode.

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

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

How to Communicate Effectively With Someone

The Loon of Language

How to Start a New Sentence

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