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Byline: Morten Christiansen

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Artificial intelligence and language

AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning

The Conversation

And it is also raising questions about innate grammar.

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Psychology

The Spontaneous Origins of Language

Wall Street Journal

Which came first, grammatical rules or their exceptions? In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Morten Christiansen, professor of psychology, writes that for decades, linguists bet on rules – but disorder and flux may turn out to be language’s most essential traits.

Psychology

Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact

The Conversation

Why is the Danish language so complicated? Morten Christiansen explains in an op-ed in The Conversation.