#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 181 minutes
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(10:53) - Human language
(14:59) - Generalizations in language
(20:46) - Dependency grammar
(30:45) - Morphology
(39:20) - Evolution of languages
(42:40) - Noam Chomsky
(1:26:46) - Thinking and language
(1:40:16) - LLMs
(1:53:14) - Center embedding
(2:19:42) - Learning a new language
(2:23:34) - Nature vs nurture
(2:30:10) - Culture and language
(2:44:38) - Universal language
(2:49:01) - Language translation
(2:52:16) - Animal communication
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Edward Gibson, or Ted, as everybody calls him. |
| 0:05.1 | He is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT. |
| 0:08.2 | He heads the MIT Language Lab that investigates why human languages look the way they do, the relationship |
| 0:15.1 | between cultural language and how people represent, process, and learn language. |
| 0:20.5 | Also, you should have a book titled Syntax, A Cognitive Approach, |
| 0:26.0 | published by MIT Press coming out this fall. |
| 0:29.0 | So, look out for that. |
| 0:31.0 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the |
| 0:35.6 | description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Yahoo, Finance, for basically |
| 0:41.0 | everything you've ever needed if you're an investor. |
| 0:44.0 | Listening for listening to research papers, policy genius for insurance, shopify, |
| 0:50.0 | for selling stuff online, and ate sleep for naps. She was wise to my friends. for |
| 0:53.3 | Naps. She was wise and my friends. |
| 0:55.3 | Also, if you want to work with our amazing team or just get in touch with me |
| 0:58.7 | Get Alex Friedman.com slash contact. |
| 1:01.3 | And now, onto the full ad reads, as always, no ads in the middle. I try to make this |
| 1:06.2 | interesting, but if you must skip friends, please still check out the sponsors. I enjoyed |
| 1:10.5 | their stuff, maybe you will too. |
| 1:13.8 | This episode is brought to you by Yahoo Finance, a new sponsor, and they got a new website that |
| 1:20.3 | you should check out. |
| 1:21.8 | It's a website that provides financial management reports, information and |
| 1:25.0 | use for investors. Yahoo itself has been around forever. Yahoo finance has been around forever. |
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