Building Linguistic Knowledge: The Surprising Amount You Can Pick Up by Listening

Dr. Simon Todd, assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara, talks about what you can learn simply by listening. His research focuses on the incredible power of passive listening for developing and accessing knowledge about language varieties and the people that speak them. Recorded on 09/14/2021. [3/2022] [Show ID: 37872]
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Can't wait for a follow--up! Love this channel.

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Thanks for the video.

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I liked this lecture and learned so much from it. Thank you for impacting my knowledge and love for linguistics.

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Fascinating, many thanks

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Joy , enjoyable ,happy -
Smile.
Light .
Whimsy
Modjestic.
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Interesting stuff. Thanks.
I have a remark though.
Until AI/ML gets us non-trivial and verifiable results, the (overly simplifying) step of modeling the (extraordinarily complex) human brain by a bunch of algorithms, neural network layers and loads of data will inevitably be fraught with all kinds of biases (confirmation, social, racial...).
Hence, the way I see the conclusions presented here is: it *is* nature that is validating the models, not the other way round :))