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 ...
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...
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 ...
Emergence of Language, The
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky talks about the emergence of language, which he calls "a species specific property...an identifying property of human beings." Dr. Chomsky postulates that language emerged as recently as fifty o...
Early English Aloud and Alive: The Language of Beowulf, Chaucer, and Shakespeare
Cultivating an appreciation of the English classics requires studying the mother tongue as it was originally spoken. In this program, Dr. Joseph Gallagher brings language to life by reciting examples of Old, Middle, and Early Modern English in their...