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How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
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42 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment but one that remains poorly understood. On this episode of the podcast we were joined by Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, and Morten H. Christiansen, Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. Together in their latest book "The Language Game," they upend our traditional understanding of language, arguing that it's not based on a set of fixed rules, but on a constantly evolving series of flexible conventions. Our host for this episode was journalist Christine Ro.
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Released:
Feb 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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