LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean Berko Gleason, Infinitive, Linguistic Prescription
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Linguists don"t study and learn how to speak or write a foreign language, but study languages to discover the fundamental properties of languages, how the human mind works in regards to language. Linguistics the scientific study of human language. => human language is quite complex, but really easy for babies/ children to learn them but extremely hard for older people. For babies it is so easy, its like a paradox, really hard if u want to consciously study it. To understand the nature of the human mind. All human beings speak at least 1 language, and it"s what makes us unique from animals. This ability to speak language in fundamental to humans, to study languages is a gateway to studying the human mind. Someone tried to teach him human language and communication by sign language. Terrace was trying to prove noam chomsky wrong, that language is not unique to humans. Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics.
