An economist has determined that the difference in rates of savings between countries can be put down to language.
Does having a future tense make you see the future differently? Just how important is language to perception?
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
An economist has determined that the difference in rates of savings between countries can be put down to language.
Does having a future tense make you see the future differently? Just how important is language to perception?
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
What was early human language like?
A pair of researchers think they’ve reconstructed early human syntax from as early as 50,000 years ago. But have they got it right? How can we know about languages that no longer exist?
Linguist …
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Become a Patron!Talk the Talk was a podcast about language that ran on community radio station RTRFM in Perth Australia. It aired on Tuesdays at 11am from about 2009 until early 2020.
Many people took part, but the main crew was Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, Kylie Sturgess, and Hedvig Skirgård.
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