Daniel Everett, How Language Began: The History of Humanity’s Greatest Invention [reupload]

The second lecture of the Copernicus Festival 2019: "Language", entitled "How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention", will be given by anthropologist and linguist Daniel Everett. After the lecture, a conversation with prof. Everett will be led by dr Łukasz Lamża.

Daniel Everett - an anthropologist and linguist, researcher of the languages of the Amazon tribes (especially the Pirahã Indians), author of world bestsellers devoted to the nature and evolution of language, including "How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention"and "Language: The Cultural Tool."

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[vinm]

The birds in my garden make a two toned whistle, which means a hawk,
and every bird (sparrow, blackbird, dunnock, robin, etc) darts for cover at breakneck speed.
I know the whistle and understand it, but it takes me a second and a half to realise
what has been "said", whereas the bird community respond almost instantly.

[lj]

This presentation was not only interesting and well explained and easy to follow, but you are also very funny. I was wondering what was wrong with the humor of this audience because they seldom laughed, when your explanations and comments were very humorous. I appreciated this presentation very much.

[DandinXY]

Excited for the Everett Era of linguistics, although it’s been going on for a while

[sergiosanchezpadilla]

41:55 Pragmatics. We even assume the gender of "spouse" in the first example. These are of course easily explained with cognitive neurolinguistics. This talk is so fascinating.

[zipperpillow]

Great stuff, and what insight! Well worth the time. Lots of food for thought. A feast, really. Thank you. I will look for more of you.

[DustinTheGreat]

I’ve listened to several of his lectures now and he has some extremely interesting, and even highly attractive, ideas. I do feel though that he makes some assumptive leaps and, even if this is just his lecture style, at times does not adequately tie ideas together in a convincing or meaningful fashion. I’ve also heard him make a few false linguistic assertions like Korean is a tonal language and Riau Indonesian is a language of Papua New Guinea. But his main thesis and especially arguments in regards to h erectus are worthwhile for anyone interested in the topic.

[sepuste]

One day Daniel Everett will be studied in schools.

[frnkgt]

Great talk !!! Turn lights on at end folks !

[radoslawjocz]

It is very fascinating to know that homo erectus was so smart creature and the presentation was brilliant and convincing. Anthropology and human evolution is very interesting science. One of my favourite topics is formal languages, but it is very interesting to know more about early human languages as well.

[maximumslap]

The Q&A at the end is really the highlight here.

[winstonsmith]

Arrived here after watching my first Daniel Everett talk on Homo Erectus. Fascinating man. Fascinating subject. Thanks.

[nukhetyavuz]

wow👍great lecture...finally ive found what i was looking for...

[dangallagher]

Wonderfully produced. Daniel... amazing work. Thank you so much.

[SethLigo]

Have they tried tool fabrication with non-PhD students? We tend to have huge blind spots when it comes to certain kinds of thought and practice...

[yehoshuadalven]

Absolutely fascinating and inspiring!
Give a like if you solely claps your hands at the end 👏👏👏

[yidakiman]

The Story of science is full of people that are right in the end, even though were treated as outcasts or stupids

[berese]

36:45 the Ford Model assuredly was not a 'Protocar" since the first "Auto-Mobile" called Fardier was invented 143 years earlier by French scientist Nicolas Cugnot and drove on the streets of Paris in 1765 the tin Lizzy came 1908. There were a lot of cars driving through Europe and the US by that time 😂

[swagmund_freud]

26:30 Anybody have any idea what study he's referring to? That sounds really interesting.

[RileyRampant]

I don't see any reason that the long-term acquisition of language could not have reduced/resolved to universal grammar by a later selection filter. It is very common-sensical to expect that this process, considered in its entirety, is not at all recent.

[casiandsouza]

Relative quantity is a form of quality. We use IQ to arbitrarily quantify quality.