PHIL256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Steven Pinker, Language Disorder
16 Mar 2016
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Language and cognition use associative memory structure or genetically determined computational modules (530) Natural engineering upon a complex code develops by age 4 (530) A grammar defines a mapping between sounds and meaning, but the mapping is not done in a single step but through a chain of intermediate data structures, each governed by a subsystem (531) There are about 180 irregular verbs that mark the past tense in other ways (531) The 13 most frequent verbs in english: be, have, do, say, make, go, take, come, see, get, know, give, find are all irregular (532)
