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Psychologist explains how grammar shapes perspective

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Developmental psychologist Michael Tomasello explains how grammatical structures like the cleft and passive voice are human inventions that allow us to adopt another person's perspective. He uses the example "It was Fred that broke the window" to illustrate this concept. The full discussion with Tomasello was released on the Machine Learning Street Talk podcast on November 24th. AI

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  1. Machine Learning Street Talk TIER_1 English(EN) · Machine Learning Street Talk ·

    It Was Fred That Broke the Window (Michael Tomasello)

    Why say "It was Fred that broke the window" instead of "Fred broke the window"? Michael Tomasello, developmental psychologist at Duke University, on how grammatical constructions such as the cleft and the passive are conventions we created for taking another person's perspective.…

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