PLIC24H3 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 PLIC24
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What do you think what s in here? nativists: there are some errors that children make, and this is the kind of error an. Many errors are errors that are only because of the specific language (overgeneralization errors) and others are made because there s something about that construction that is allowed, its just not allowed in their language. Child language falls into what is normal grammar across the world. no such thing as a totally wild grammar. This is plato s problem because plato asked this question: how is it that humans know so much, even though they don t live that long. The picture of the man is an icon. Some signs represent the real life thing and others are completely arbitrary. The geometrical shapes are all arbitrary symbols, and so are the words. Icons are not completely like their referents, but are close. We constantly try to find meaning in our arbitrary words.
