LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Noam Chomsky

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

Document Summary

Ling 1010 lecture 1 - the innateness hypothesis. How do people come to know so much on the basis of so little. Units 2 + 3: arguments in support of chomsky"s claim of language learning modules: unit 2: linguistic. Ideas stem from our natural human nature; we are born with the ability to formulate thought and we are gifted with imagination. Aristotle all ideas are the result of experience. How does information end up born with the ideas in their heads; they are wholly taught and in uenced by their environments. All disciplines concerned with the human mind/behavior will to some extent involve the nature-nurture question. Involvement in everyday issues: different children in one family, men vs. women, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression/performance of gender, sexual preference, school/academic performance. Some parts (a. k. a. modules) of the mind may be fully innate. Some modules are fully learned due to: general learning mechanisms, such as how to make pizza or.