Why every utterance you make begins with a leap of faith
Time pressure and the limitations of memory compel you and your listener to engage in a fascinating linguistic trade-off
by Julie Sedivy
Julie Sedivy is a language scientist and writer. She has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University in Rhode Island and at the University of Calgary, and is the author of Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self (2021) and, most recently, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love (2024).
Written by Julie Sedivy