Evans & Levinson (2009) argue that language diversity is more robust than linguistic homogeneity, and also suggest that explanations for recurring patterns in language are not the product of an innate, evolved language faculty. I examine various kinds of evidence in favour of a specialized language...
1 Critiques:Week9,Mar17 th 2009|CS498SpecialTopics|SusmitaDas TheFacultyofLanguage:Whatisit,Whohasit,andHowDiditEvolve? MarcD.Hauser,NoamChomsky,W.TecumsehFitch WithaselfexplanatorytitleasTheFacultyofLanguage,Hauser,ChomskyandFitchtrytoexplainthe evolutionoflanguageinhumansandarguethatrelativelyless...
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THE LANGUAGE FACULTY, AND HOW DID IT GET THAT WAY? Attempting to give a straightforward answer to the question, I put forward in this paper – Has language evolved for other than language related reasons?, I would emphatically say – No, it has not!, as long as ...
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thefacultyoflanguagewhatsspecialaboutit语言的教师是什么特殊的 系统标签: languagefacultyspecialpinkerspeciuniquely Thefacultyoflanguage:what’sspecialaboutit? * StevenPinker a, * ,RayJackendoff b a DepartmentofPsychology,HarvardUniversity,WilliamJamesHall,Cambridge,MA02138,USA b DepartmentofPsychology,Brandeis...
Language―isnottobeconfusedwithhumanspeech,ofwhichitisonlyadefinitepart,thoughcertainlyanessentialone.Itisbothasocialproductofthefacultyofspeechandacollectionofnecessaryconventionsthathavebeenadoptedbyasocialbodytopermitindividualstoexercisethatfaculty‖.(FerdinanddeSaussure1857-1913)[Languageis]asetof(finiteorinfinite)...
4、permit individuals to exercise that faculty”. (Ferdinand de Saussure 1857-1913,7,Language is a set of (finite or infinite) sentences, each infinite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements. (Chomsky, 1957,8,Language is a purely human and non- instinctive method of com...
Language, communication, and evolution The intuition that Minimalism reduces the amount of linguistic machinery that had to evolve is not HCF's only argument against the possibility that natural selection was a crucial cause of the evolution of the language faculty. They touch on three other themes...
Language“isnottobeconfusedwithhumanspeech,ofwhichitisonlyadefinitepart,thoughcertainlyanessentialone.Itisbothasocialproductofthefacultyofspeechandacollectionofnecessaryconventionsthathavebeenadoptedbyasocialbodytopermitindividualstoexercisethatfaculty”.(FerdinanddeSaussure1857-1913)[Languageis]asetofsentences,each...
"The nature of language is considered as a function of knowledge attained...[T]he language faculty may be regarded as a fixed function, characteristic of the species, one component of the human mind, a function which maps experience into grammar." ...