Effects of Translanguaging in Online Peer Feedback on Chinese University English-as-a-Foreign-Language Students’ Second Language Writing Performance - Peijian Paul Sun, Lawrence Jun Zhang, 2022 https://t.co/BVcu98Im4D
Here's my conversation with Edward Gibson (@LanguageMIT), a linguist and psychologist at MIT, heading the MIT Language Lab. We talk all about the human language: syntax, grammar, structure, theories of language, evolution of language, how it reflects culture, and of course LLMs, both their amazing power and their limitations.
It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:13 - Human language
5:19 - Generalizations in language
11:06 - Dependency grammar
21:05 - Morphology
29:40 - Evolution of languages
33:00 - Noam Chomsky
1:17:06 - Thinking and language
1:30:36 - LLMs
1:43:35 - Center embedding
2:10:02 - Learning a new language
2:13:54 - Nature vs nurture
2:20:30 - Culture and language
2:34:58 - Universal language
2:39:21 - Language translation
2:42:36 - Animal communication
The 7 most common eye problems are:
1)Nearsightedness
2)Farsightedness (not the same as presbyopia)
3)Presbyopia
4)Astigmatism
5)Macular degeneration
6)Glaucoma
7)Cataracts
All of which can have their roots in the same causes (just like lots of health issues) so let's see some of them.