#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (10:53)
- Human language (14:59) - Generalizations in language (20:46) -
Dependency grammar (30:45) - Morphology (39:20) - Evolution of
languages (42:40) - Noam Chomsky (1:26:46) - Thinking and language
(1:40:16) - LLMs (1:53:14) - Center embedding (2:19:42) - Learning
a new language (2:23:34) - Nature vs nurture (2:30:10) - Culture
and language (2:44:38) - Universal language (2:49:01) - Language
translation (2:52:16) - Animal communication