• Question: How interesting do you find the phycology of language?

    Asked by curious learner to Daniel, Greg, Lowri on 17 Mar 2016.
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      Lowri Evans answered on 17 Mar 2016:


      The psychology of language (known as Psycholinguistics). Language is a cognition that truly makes us human. Whereas other species do communicate with an innate ability to produce a limited number of meaningful vocalizations (e.g. bonobos), or even with partially learned systems (e.g. bird songs), there is no other species known to date that can express infinite ideas (sentences) with a limited set of symbols (speech sounds and words) 🙂

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