MIT linguist explains the structure of language | Edward Gibson and Lex Fridman

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Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab.

[Bpaynee]

I'm not familiar with this interviewer, but watching this conversation reminds me how much people are unused to thinking about language itself, or where it's come from. Concepts like 'correct language' don't make much sense in a linguistic sense, outside of there being institutions that attempt to standardize and enforce a particular dialect. Also, for example with how the most common words have irregular structures (in many languages, but it's super obvious in English), it's the 'regular' words that would be what I think Fridman means by 'slang', which is words that were introduced to the language later. It's actually that very common words are more likely to be able to maintain the older patterns of the language.

[saidrahal]

I hope some day linguistics and semiotics can go to another level, as Bachelard left clear: imagination and poiesis, the human faculties that relate to the world depending on the SOUNDS, no only the meaning, which relates and contexts the language as a sound code, not only as semantic structure...IYWIM

[MrJaMaJoGu]

I am not native in English, but could you not use commas to switch the order of words? E.g: "John, kissed Marie." Meaning John is the one, that Marie kissed, or "Marie kissed John."
Tell me if i am wrong.

[laoch]

I love that last bit- slang is sticky because "stick it to the rules". All it needs is that little bump and it's above the regulars haha

[locochingadero]

I've watched several clips from this interview now. Is EG's avoidance of the philosophy of language a matter of principle or accidental?

[chemicalsurrealist]

Noam chomsky father of modern linguistics say FREE PALESTINE

[JennyTownsend-rs]

Japanese, Please. Hindustani, for love of Madre Sanskrit. Attic Greek Grammar! Glagolitic.