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Dig into Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar and decide: are there universal grammar rules and are they hardwired into our brains?
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Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we’re able to do so from an early age— almost as soon as we start to communicate in sentences. How is this possible? In the early 1950s, Noam Chomsky proposed a theory that the key to this versatility was grammar. Cameron Morin details Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar.
Lesson by Cameron Morin, directed by Eoin Duffy.
Animator’s website: https://eoinduffy.me/
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it depends on what you mean by 1. all 2. languages 3. common.
love the design
3:40 there hasn't been a 2394 or 2783 yet
woah !! the animation is beautiful
Always he damn piraha, what's up with these dudes.
I am so confuseeeed
Violence
Using human's mouth.
this approach is very representative of the "theoretic professor in a vacuum" that not deserves his position. there are actually hidden rules but they all have vocal roots. we start with easy to pronounce sounds and then build into rhythmic patterns easy to decode
"What do languages have in common?"
proper nouns?
All languages have one thing in common: they use different kinds of curse words.
Love this animation style!
lenguaje
0:12 "an bhFuil cead agam duo go dTí an leithris" literals means can I got to the toilet in Irish
This video is amazing.
HiNdUsTaNi?
that they are languages.
They all have nouns, adjectives, & verbs.
This is random but I find Arabic and Japanese are quite similar in many ways…
Me watching this video because of the music: 🕺
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