Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
1:13 – Human language
5:19 – Generalizations in language
11:06 – Dependency grammar
21:05 – Morphology
29:40 – Evolution of languages
33:00 – Noam Chomsky
1:17:06 – Thinking and language
1:30:36 – LLMs
1:43:35 – Center embedding
2:10:02 – Learning a new language
2:13:54 – Nature vs nurture
2:20:30 – Culture and language
2:34:58 – Universal language
2:39:21 – Language translation
2:42:36 – Animal communication
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