Neurophysiology of Language, The
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky talks about where language is stored and processed in the brain. As part of this discussion, he mentions the left hemisphere, specifically focusing on Broca's area and Wernicke's area. Dr. Choms...
Language and Human Nature
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky explains that all languages share certain common principles, which he notes are picked up "reflexively, quickly, essentially without error by children and, it must be...because the principles ar...
Language and the Mind
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky explains that the word "mind" is an abstraction which is really just another way to talk about the brain. Dr. Chomsky then discusses the connection between language and the mind. "If my foot is ...
Language and Thought Through Time
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky explains that language and thought are both related and transmitted through time. Dr. Chomsky adds that, "...we don't really have very good ways of studying thought except through the avenue of ...
Connections: World of Sensory Stimuli, A
As attuned as people think they are to the world, their senses take in only a fraction of the energy that surrounds them. Most animal species have many more than the five primary senses ascribed to humans. Many animals have polarized filters that al...
Thinking and Language: Language: Its Complexity and Essence
Language, many believe, provides concrete evidence of our ability to think. Fundamentally, all languages have the same basic parameters, with variations occurring as a result of how the "switch box" linked to these parameters is programmed. The comp...
Diversity of Language
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky explains that the variety of languages in the United States has declined very sharply in the last two hundred years. "When the colonists first came here from Europe, " Dr. Chomsky notes, "...the...
Thinking and Language: Child's Remarkable Ability to Acquire Language, A
Young children gain access to language in well-documented stages, from cooing and babbling to an explosion of words at about 18 months. B. F. Skinner thought that language acquisition relied on operant conditioning and reinforcement, whereas Noam Ch...
Thinking and Language: Does Language Influence the Way We Think?
The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that the language a person speaks influences the way he thinks. Asian languages are often described as high context languages (what you say may or may not be what you mean, depending on the context), whe...
Can Language Deprivation Be Made Up?
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky explores the question of what happens when a child is deprived of exposure to language. If such deprivation is part of a larger problem, such as lack of contact with others, the non-acquisition ...