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“Here is this phenomenon that lives right under our nose, that we barely noticed,” says Mark Dingemanse, a linguist at Radboud University, “that turns out to upend our ideas of what makes complex language even possible in the first place.” (via @knowablemag.bsky.social)
Huh? The valuable role of interjections in human conversations
Utterances like um, wow and mm-hmm used to be dismissed as irrelevant linguistic detritus. But some linguists now think they play an essential role in regulating conversations, and may be the hardest…
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“Here is this phenomenon that lives right under our nose, that we barely noticed,” says Mark Dingemanse, a linguist at Radboud University, “that turns out to upend our ideas of what makes complex language even possible in the first place.” (via @knowablemag.bsky.social)
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A striking Long-eared Owl perched on a lichen-covered branch.
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A striking Long-eared Owl perched on a lichen-covered branch.
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