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135: Linguistic Illusions (with Dan Parker)
· 2 h 09 min · Explicit
Episode 135: Linguistic Illusions (with Dan Parker)
"More people have listened to this episode than you have." Why does this sentence look so right, but feel so wrong? When your grammar says one thing, but your brain says another, you may have found a linguistic illusion. We're talking to Dr Dan Parker, author of Linguistic Illusions: A Case Study on Agreement Attraction.
Video for this episode: https://youtu.be/_9BcmMZrH7s
Timestamps
• Start: 0:00 • Intros: 0:27 • News: 6:30 • Related or Not: 34:22 • Interview with Dan Parker: 49:53 • Words of the Week: 1:38:00 • Comment: 1:54:16 • The Reads: 1:58:19 • Outtakes: 2:05:39
Transcript
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