Animated linguistics
Posted on February 29th, 2012by Michelle
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Today is leap day, the extra day we get every four years. Why not use it to learn a little more about linguistics?
Steven Pinker is a well-known linguist (amongst other things), with specializations in visual cognition and psycholinguistics. He’s also very good at making complex ideas seem very understandable and engaging, which is why I love this video illustrating a talk he gave to the RSA.
In it, Pinker “shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings”. Take a look and let me know what you think.