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How is language like a game of charades? According to a new book, quite a lot. Charades players and language users improvise and work together to create meaning in a situation, and they get better at it as they reuse elements and build up patterns.
Drs Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater explain their vision of language to Daniel and Hedvig on this episode of Because Language.
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21: Journal Club: Newsblast!
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18: Swearin' Time (with Kory Stamper)
17: Words of the Week of the Year 2020
16: Mailbag of Spedrun
15: Xenolanguage (with Kathryn Hymes)
14: Word Jail (with Ian Cushing)
13: White Supremacy (with Kelly Wright)
12: Mailbag: Will Ben Get It Right?
11: Aboriginal English: Yarning (with Glenys Collard and Celeste Rodriguez Louro)
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9: OzCLO (with Henry Wu, Elisabeth Mayer, and the students of Sydney Girls School and Sydney Boys School)
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6: Decolonising Linguistics: Grammars (with Hannah Gibson)
5: The LSA Open Letter
4: Bilingual Advantages (with Iryna Khodos)
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