Is “bnick” a word? You know it's not — but how do you know?

And why does it take modern AI many lifetimes worth of words to get almost as good at language as you are? Explore these questions through live experiments led by professional linguists. You’ll see your own language-learning superpowers in action. And along the way, you’ll discover so much about language that you didn’t know you knew.

For this event, please bring along your smartphone to get involved in the experiments!

Presented by The University of Edinburgh