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Language Experts Study the Future of Past Tense Two new studies published Wednesday in the journal Nature explore how languages evolve. Tecumseh Fitch, a professor of psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, studies the evolution of language and wrote the introduction for the Nature studies.

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Language Experts Study the Future of Past Tense

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Language Experts Study the Future of Past Tense

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Two new studies published Wednesday in the journal Nature explore how languages evolve.

Tecumseh Fitch, a professor of psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, studies the evolution of language and wrote the introduction for the Nature studies.

Fitch talks with Robert Siegel.