36: Journal Club: Clickety Clack (with Stephen Mann)
Sep 13, 2021•54 min
Episode description
The Because Language team are talking through some of the most interesting research around, and you get to listen!
- Valuable medical information gets lost when Indigenous languages are wiped out
- When it comes to learning languages, multilinguals have the edge over bilinguals
- A generativist argues that languages don't adapt to their environment. What's behind this?
- And it's iconicity turned up to 11: some experiments that explore how language began.