LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eric Lenneberg, Language Acquisition Device, Twin Earth Thought Experiment
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Ecture themes: what is language? how do we cmd to know language? readings: chomsky"s knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use. Knowledge of language the ability to produce and understand an infinite set of sentences with finite means phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics we know things we don"t know we know knowledge of language as a focus of inquiry. Chomsky - dismisses intuitive pre theoretical sense of knowledge (taking of english as a coherent thing that can be defined) Bloomfield: a language is the totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community. Davis lewis: language is a paring of sentences and meaning over an infinite range where the language is used by a population. Saussure"s langue(knowledge of language and parole- speech context) Note: these three conceptions of language is not identical understood independently of the mind and brain unlike i-language.
