CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Everytime, Concatenation, Arbitrariness
26 Feb 2016
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Structuralism: everything is based on an underlying structure. Language had to come from something in the natural world. Him and his friend were interested in language, and the capacity of language to make. There should be a way to teach people how to persuade people (speak well) - wrote a book on it. People would study with them to learn how to support their case in court. Language is a way of proving probabilities, not the truth. Don"t know, so discusses what we can do with language. Answer the question of language origins by talking about language acquisition, instead. Womanizing alcoholic who turned it around, became christian, and wrote a book about his confessions. Implants the association between the two in your brain. He said he experienced this when he was young. Augustine discovered language acquisition instead of the origins. God puts english sounds in english babies at birth.
