321: Language Face to Face (featuring Rachel Romeo) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

We check out recent news in child language acquisition research. An interview with Rachel Romeo of MIT, who has found that number of conversation turns is a better predictor of language development than the number of words heard by the child. But why? Our Words of the Week: awesome, Anglo-Saxon, thinnernym.

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