Today, partly because of this outrageous legacy, most respectable linguists and psychologists either categorically deny that the mother tongue can have any influence on speakers’ thoughts, or claim that any such influence is at best negligible, even trivial. Nevertheless, in recent years some intrepid researchers have attempted to apply sound

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In her review of the show, London-based writer and editor Isabelle Bucklow reflects on how language – like imagery – is no longer simply a vessel for human feeling. In the age of Large Language Models and ChatGPT, language has become increasingly slippery: saturated with noise, drained by repetition and harder than ever to hold onto. It’s being... See more