The Language Project Podcast
Come and take a listen to all the ways that language impacts our society! In this podcast we'll explore various topics related to language - everything from how it defines us as humans, how it manifests itself in our technology and our media and arts and impacts the way we think, and how its automation makes our lives easier but also brings its own set of ethical challenges. I'll be joined by many special guests whose own lives have been notably impacted by language, as well as experts in the field of linguistics.
The Language Project Podcast
"The Labor of Lifetimes": Interview with Professor Elsner
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Jay Mason
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Season 2
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Episode 15
Come join me as I speak with Professor Micha Elsner, a professor of Computational Linguistics at Ohio State University. We explore his intellectual journey and what sparked his interest in this field. We also dig into one of his areas of focus - child language acquisition. What is known about how children learn language and what is still a mystery? Are certain language easier to acquire? What is a language 'subsystem'? And how does the 'labor of lifetimes' continually help us understand more about how languages are learned?