CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky, Stroop Effect
17 Jul 2014
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Tinbergen"s 4 why"s explains why ppl want to learn more about language. The first reason is because people want to know about the purpose of language: what does using a language serves us the purpose is called function. They want aslo want to know the mechanism in which language operates. They also want to know how language develop : ontogeny. They also want to know about its evolutionary history : phylogeny. Language is a central thing its so common and needed in our daily lives. Through language we are able to communicate, to describe, to rely a message. It is believed that all languages sound changes ; ex knee ancient english ppl used to actually pronounce the k but now the k is silent. All languages are complex it seemed to have originated from around 50,000 years ago. All languages possess a verb, pronoun and nouns. Continuity based prospect thus language was developed/started from animals (
