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.