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modo_lvA fascinating, albeit long, read on the field of linguistics, and a lesson in scientific rigour http://t.co/j6qnHrsX
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Marc-Alexandre Gagnon@ccabezas: RT @openculture: Will one researcher's discovery in the Amazon destroy Chomsky's theory of linguistics? http://t.co/zc9to1QB http://twitter.com/ccabezas/status/184265744001929216 March 26, 2012 at 09:09AM
@Santomauro: Will one researcher's discovery deep in the Amazon destroy the foundation of modern linguistics?: http://t.co/xrFtLNVc http://twitter.com/Santomauro/status/202153597868326915 May 14, 2012 at 05:49PM -
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Tamy BurnettChronicle article about universal grammar and debate over Brazilian language. anti-Chomsky
chomsky linguistics piraha everett universal grammar language
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Anselm BuehlingWill one researcher's discovery deep in the Amazon destroy the foundation of modern linguistics?
By Tom Bartlettlinguistik Sprachphilosophie interpretation chomsky everett piraha grammatik logik rekursion
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Carmen TschofenThat rhetorical talent was on display in his lecture last October, in which he didn't just disagree with other linguists, but treated their arguments as ridiculous and a mortal danger to the field....
Recently there's been a rise in so-called corpus linguistics, a data-driven method of evaluating a language, using computer software to analyze sentences and phrases. The method produces detailed information and, for scholars like Gibson, finally provides scientific rigor for a field he believes has been mired in never-ending theoretical disputes. That, along with the brain-scanning technology that linguists are increasingly making use of, may be able to help resolve questions about how much of the structure of language is innate and how much is shaped by culture.
But Chomsky has little use for that method. In his lecture, he deemed corpus linguistics nonscientific, comparing it to doing physics by describing the swirl of leaves on a windy day rather than performing experiments. This was "just statistical modeling," he said, evidence of a "kind of pathology in the cognitive sciences." Referring to brain scans, Chomsky joked that the only way to get a grant was to propose an fMRI. -
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Will one researcher's discovery deep in the Amazon destroy the foundation of modern linguistics?
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this Martian would, if he were rational, conclude that the structure of the knowledge that is acquired in the case of language is basically internal to the human mind
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He believes that the structure of language doesn't spring from the mind but is instead largely formed by culture,
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It's not that Everett thinks our brains don't play a role—they obviously do. But he argues that just because we are capable of language does not mean it is necessarily prewired. As he writes in his book: "The discovery that humans are better at building human houses than porpoises tells us nothing about whether the architecture of human houses is innate."
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In a recursive language, additional phrases and clauses can be inserted in a sentence, complicating the meaning, in theory indefinitely
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