LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noam Chomsky, Nim Chimpsky, Linguistic Prescription
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Slide 15: linguistic is the study of language. Slide 16: fact- we speak only 600 of them. Fiction italian is beautiful, german is ugly: in linguistic scientifically no language is more beautiful than another. Slide 17: fiction- english is easier to learn than thai: if you are born the original speaking language it easier for you than to move to a different country and learn a whole new language. Fact- some languages don"t have words for : no language is easier than the other to learn, some languages always have to refer to north and south. Fact- language to be innate: baby are born with the ability to learn a language so some aspect of language is innate. Misguided question: because linguist study language not how to speak a language. Linguistics: is the scientific study of a human language. To understand the nature of the human mind. Cognitive function to be able to speak a language.
