106: What One Thing? (with Mark Ellison) [Bonus episode]

30 September 2024 cognition

What one thing explains the most about language?

Here to answer that question is linguist and friend of the pod Dr Mark Ellison — and many of our listeners and friends. It’s one of our Deck Chats! Grab a coffee and follow along.

Timestamps

Cold open: 0:00
Intros: 0:31
Mark’s work: 1:51
Listener responses: 9:07
Daniel’s answer: 43:34
Mark’s answer: 1:03:45
Wrap up: 1:17:17

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Show notes

Emphatic Pronouns | Scottish Gaelic Grammar Wiki
https://gaelicgrammar.org/~gaelic/mediawiki/index.php/Emphatic_Pronouns

Don’t Count on It | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dont-count-on-it/

The Interpreter | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2

Brainfuck | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-nicaraguan-sign-language

T. Mark Ellison & Uta Reinöhl: Compositionality, Metaphor, and the Evolution of Language
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10764-022-00315-w

POWERHOUSE COLLECTION
https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/306154

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