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8: How Translatable Are Languages? (with Gary Lupyan)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

English - September 06, 2020 13:25 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 65 ratings
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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.