Recently, Noam Chomsky spoke at the at theRoyal Dutch Academy of Sciences Colloquium on ‘The Biology of Language’ in Amsterdam.
The whole thing has been posted on YouTube, so I made a playlist.
Enjoy!
Chomsky lecture ‘The Biology of Language’
Culture, its evolution and anything inbetween
Recently, Noam Chomsky spoke at the at theRoyal Dutch Academy of Sciences Colloquium on ‘The Biology of Language’ in Amsterdam.
The whole thing has been posted on YouTube, so I made a playlist.
Enjoy!
I have heard other Biology of Language treatments, but I do not buy them. I am more inclined to believe that the Physics of Language will be more appropriate and feasible sooner or later, pointing out at the same time that a natural language is nothing but metaphysics. Challenge me, if you like to hear more of that point.
To test the evolution of anything, language included, when you witness a highly developed stage, you must reduce the circumstances that have emerged to this day and by removing the rationale, you can find the traces leading you back to the origins.l