HD FS 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Baby Talk, Sarcasm, Noam Chomsky
13 Oct 2016
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Language not learned by humans, but it is a capacity born into us. All information we need about basic grammar, etc. embedded in us: do not need to learn. Universal grammar: storehouse of rules that apply to all human languages. If someone points to object and verbalize, no matter what language. As a species, we will know what it is. Animal language: we are able to require language almost effortlessly. Deaf children: raised in homes with parents who could hear, parents who reject sign language, children started to create own sign language. Rudiments for a language even when creating it almost entirely on own: brain structures. Lad embedded in wernicke"s and broca"s area (brain) Intensive intervention to help acquire language after she was away from the abusive environment: no language skills, never became fluent language user, developmentally too late, biology shut down from puberty. One caveat: we need a trigger for our biology.
