How children pick up a language: new comment (Humans)

by David Turell @, Sunday, March 05, 2017, 18:18 (2571 days ago) @ dhw

QUOTE: "Language is not the mind–it is the principle code the mind uses. It is a window into the soul."

David’s comment: this authoritative comment seals the discussion for me. Chomsky is correct if Paraha is as expressive as this author describes it. God would want humans to have this language ability.

dhw: One might ask why he gave humans different languages to communicate in, but my guess would be that he didn’t: mine would be that different sets of humans worked out their own sounds, structures, “grammars”.

You are in disagreement with most linguists who think there is a universal grammar.


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