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The study of linguistic cognition takes you into the heart of the mind. Cognitive linguists examine the language that we use to tell stories, describe feelings and sensory experiences, collaborate ...

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More language has been recorded in the last twenty years than in the entirety of human history. Using computer science algorithms, Computational Linguists can automatically process vast amounts of ...

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