Were like 7000000000 people and we speak 7000. 00 languages. We need language for communication, but is language in that sense kind of preventing communication rather than facilitating it. I mean, since every language cost to some sort of a private club thats more or less outsiders. Right. Right. Thats always been one conception of language, is that collectively that people that speak a language, even a very its a little bit from person to person. You can think of as a kind of cultural artifact thats being created by the people or last week that way. Of course, the way we want to study language might differ from that because language can be used for lots of things. It can be used for communication about it can also be used for miscommunication as well as weve seen in the current election, not only just just here in the united states, but lots of other places too. So theres this aspect of language about whats knowledge of language thats inside your head, that you actually that every hum
Restricts access to any archie documentary on the us armed groups, flagging it as potentially offensive. We hear from the films producer we have to fold the notification system in place for this particular documentary, and that is word. This is something ive heard of. I think anger in armenia as crowds demanded the prime minister, quits over a peace deal with azerbaijan, that they see as a trail with your headlines, ill be back in the hour with another look, stay with us is our to International Language is what makes us human unique, so whats behind one of our species . Most incredible inventions. And how is it changing with technology . Professor of computational linguistics, Computer Science and engineering at mit, robert byrd, vic, professor off computational linguistics, Computer Science and engineering at mit. Its really great to have you with us today professor. Well, going great, great to be here. Ok. So i mean, look at us, were like 7000000000 people and we speak 7000 languages
Not only just just here in the united states, but lots of other places too. So theres this aspect of language about whats knowledge of language thats inside your head, that you actually that every human being shares. But then theres also a separate nation about language, about how do you put it, what use do you put language . And those are 2 Different Things to different ways of looking at language. So if linguists can now think about the evolution of language, like what is language, or where is the language of all the ng . I mean, is it for them being divided into many different ones or will would just all speak at rahman tongue one day, sooner rather than later. Right. When i say, i dont think i will arrive at some kind of limbo where there is just simply one language used by everyone. I think there you have to distinguish between again 2 fundamental ways of looking at the evolution of language. One way is to think of it, you can think of the evolution of well, what was the initial o
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