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Lecture 6 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands

Introduces language through sounds, word structure, sentence structure and recursion, alongside arguments about acquisition and specialisation.

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A broad starting lecture for connecting a language’s structure to questions about learning it. Its brain, mouth and hands framing also helps avoid equating all language with speech.

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