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Lingua Isomorphica -- Groks Science Show 2016-03-09

by: Charles Lee and Frank Ling

Publication date: 2016-03-09

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Topics: semantics, language, santa fe institute, modeling, linguistics

For most grown ups, a foreign language may seem unintelligible. But, human languages may be more similar than one might think. On this program, Tanmoy Bhattacharya discusses a common structure underlying word meaning that is independent of culture and geography.