Sound Meaning in Language with Dr. Ida Toivonen #100

Minding the Brain by Jim Davies & Kim Hellemans

Dr. Ida Toivonen joins Minding the Brain to talk about sound and meaning in language. Do all languages have tense? Do plurals work the same [...]

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