To add ... avoid reading guides like the plague and DO NOT read introductions by translators other than to note issues with particular words. By this ...
This is a bit of a scatter gun approach. My intent here isn’t to ‘debate’ or ‘argue’. My intent is to explore the subject matter beyond the initial po...
I would, and do, simply write down what interests me and try and answer questions that interest me. Then look into how others have approached those qu...
The point was that ‘language’ may not be the primary function. Chomsky himself practically admits this when he talks about Music or some other capacit...
You sound like you’ve found the wrong forum to post on. You posted something like a rant and some paranoid version of a post apocalyptic survival guid...
I find that to be a very poor basis to work from. I’m not denying that recursion is important but surely there is more. Nevertheless there has been ar...
If you’re not very familiar then you may not be aware of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_identity If you are then exactly what are you talk...
If you’re trying to help StreetlightX derail your own thread you’ve pretty much succeeded. Kind of sad, but such is the nature of online forums. Stop ...
Basically you’re talking about immediate over future benefits. If not why bother? If so how far are you willing to go? That’s your problem, and possib...
It’s part and parcel of the OP. I’m reasonably well versed in this area - more so in terms of the neurogenesis and the general neurological ‘mechanism...
I would highly recommend this both for an insight into Chomsky’s thinking and regard for linguistics and philosophy, AND because Gondry’s animations a...
In that sense it would be pretty hard to argue that when I talk about an apple and an orange, a dog and a cat, or a toilet, a shovel and a toadstool, ...
I’m interested in moving this into a more fruitful area of discussion - more fruitful for me at least. I’ not specifically interested in Chomsky or an...
I agree. I imagine we disagree about the use of parcelling off certain areas for focus study. The major problem above is how we then distinguish betwe...
Of course. I’ve never read her book and she openly admits that her method wasn’t scientific and that she is no linguist. Nevertheless I have looked at...
Sounds like that is almost a reductive scientific approach. Limited, yes. Redundant? Gradualism or otherwise isn’t really an issue for me tbh as I don...
To add, there are many myths about learning languages that pervade. There are many myths in many areas of science too. They usually start due to the k...
That doesn’t follow. The point is to narrow down the fuel for the system. As an analogy we could say liquid makes an engine run and fill our cars with...
The problem is agreeing want x property makes ‘language’ a ‘language’. The general consensus is that it is at least partly syntax and grammar. I under...
Yes, but then people take this as a steadfast claim rather than a statement of fact. A lot of this likely has to do with neuroscience wrestling these ...
Agree or not, there are plenty of linguistics quite happy to call it language. It is precisely these kinds of disagreements over the term ‘language’ a...
This is bizarre. You’re seriously putting forward that Chomsky has moved the field of linguistics backward? I can only encourage others here to ignore...
I wasn’t discussing Pinker - who no doubt has amended his ideas since 1994 to some degree. From Evans: Claimed being the key word. I’ve already pointe...
It depends on how broad the term ‘language’ is in your usage. A great many linguistics are quite happy to talk about ‘language’ in terms of a bee’s wa...
Both are true genetically. It has to be taken into account that several non-phenotypical iterations of the genetic code over generations can then beco...
Isn’t part of that argument basically saying a humans ability to walk is cultural? If we’re going to say we have no capacity for language - via some i...
One example is how song bird babies ‘babble’, like humans. When it come to syntax and grammar, that is generally considered to be the main difference ...
Humans share many basic attribute of spoken language with other animals. The difference is we possess ALL where other animals only possess certain asp...
The reason was parliament was particularly weak. Now the Conservatives have a whooping majority it’ll be easy to ‘change’. Don’t forget that May assum...
That’s the one. Also, think about this alongside cases of feral children where they’re never able to obtain a full ‘worded language’. I’m pretty sure ...
If he’d resigned several months ago, then yeah. If and buts don’t matter now. He said, she said, don’t much care he was PM. Like every other human bei...
Language in the broader sense of a ‘communication’/‘relation’ to environment and interactions. ‘Worded language’ isn’t a necessity of being a human. T...
Tbh when ever I see cries of ‘anti-semitism’ I assume they’re false. The reason being when I’ve looked further they are usually comments taken out of ...
Boris was, and is, more politically savvy than Corbyn. If they both had the same ideologies Boris would still win out because of this. Anyway, doesn’t...
The problem is how this fits in with everything else he says in terms of ‘Dasein’. It’s contrary and I suspect he was quite purposeful in how he was t...
If I were I’d go out right now and buy a copy of Piaget’s ‘The Language and Thought of a Child’, or any number of works on child development. Even tho...
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