Evolution: How the theory is inspiring a new way of understanding language
Friday, April 5, 2019 - 08:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Words are often seen as the building blocks of languages. But as children we don't learn lists of words like we might in a school language class. We learn longer strings of sounds and break them up into words as we grow up. One of the problems with our current theory of how language works is that it doesn't take these longer strings into account.