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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\nOUTLINE:
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\n(00:00) - Introduction
\n(10:53) - Human language
\n(14:59) - Generalizations in language
\n(20:46) - Dependency grammar
\n(30:45) - Morphology
\n(39:20) - Evolution of languages
\n(42:40) - Noam Chomsky
\n(1:26:46) - Thinking and language
\n(1:40:16) - LLMs
\n(1:53:14) - Center embedding
\n(2:19:42) - Learning a new language
\n(2:23:34) - Nature vs nurture
\n(2:30:10) - Culture and language
\n(2:44:38) - Universal language
\n(2:49:01) - Language translation
\n(2:52:16) - Animal communication