BSP 94: How the Brain understands Language

[Virginia]

Sorry about forgetting to post this sooner

Here are the links for last month's interview with Benjamin Bergen author of Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning.

Show notes for BSP 94 (This includes a free episode transcript.)

mp3 of BSP 94

[John]

This is a good place to recommend
"The Unfolding Of Language: The Evolution of Mankind`s greatest Invention" by Guy Deutscher
Very erudite (but enthralling like Pinker) and pure Linguistics, but with obvious links into Phonetics, and Language Acquisition in Children and hence into Associative Learning. I put up a review in GoodReads generally.
It would be great to hear an interview by Ginger. I think the author needs pressing a bit on the phonetical explanations of word-changes that he glosses over a bit. eg. how quickly can we move the tongue to sound a particular vowel, after placing it to make a labial or palatal plosive, or a fricative?
I suspect he wanted to keep the book quite short, so skipped these areas.
The book ought to be good for teachers, speech therapists, as well as computational linguists and statisticians and machine learning specialists.
After all, learning our native language is probably the biggest learning experience for all of us.