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The Wonders of Language or How to Make Noises and Influence People
Show Guest: Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts, author of The Wonders of Language or How to Make Noises and Influence People, offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live in a mental ocean of nouns, verbs, quantifiers, morphemes, vowels and other rich, strange and deeply fascinating linguistic objects.
Join us as Ian introduces a most this amazing world, one that offers a thought-provoking and accessible introduction to the main discoveries and theories about language, designed for general readers, as well as undergraduates who are curious about linguistics and language
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