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8: How Translatable Are Languages? (with Gary Lupyan)
Blog post: http://becauselanguage.com/8-how-translatable-are-languages/
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Language and culture are intertwined, and a new research project discovers that the meanings of words diverge as culture does.
But this big-data experiment is attracting the ire of anthropologists. Why the friction? Researcher Gary Lupyan joins us for this episode of Because Language.
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