LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Universal Grammar, Noam Chomsky, Tabula Rasa

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Akihiko Arano( T A)

Document Summary

So far we have learned what kind of knowledge we have when we use language. Some of them are quite complex, and you are unconscious of them when you use them. The fucking insertion rule: the word fucking can only be inserted in the position immediately before the primary stressed syllable. Fan - tas - tic fan- fucking- tas- tic. Mary is eating an apple and something. Bad: i wonder what she is eating an apple and. All enquiry and all learning is but recollection. He claims that all intuitive knowledge is innate. In modern terms, his claim is that all intuitive knowledge is coded in our genes. Tabula rasa: at birth, the human mind is a blank slate, on which experience writes . There are pieces of evidence showing that both experience and innate properties are needed. Suppose that mary and john are speakers of english and they have a baby mary.