Instead of a discussion, we watched a
video that practically summarized what Pinker talks about in the first
few chapters. The name of this videos is Linguistics As a Window to
Understanding the Brain. While we watched the video we had to write down the
questions that we thought Pinker was providing the answer for. These are the
questions I came up with:
- What is language?
- What is the miracle of language?
- Why is language important to humans?
- What does linguistics study?
- What topics can you divide language into?
- What is the main puzzle in language?
- What are Chomsky´s contributions to the science of language?
- Why should language have rules?
- What are the rules of language?
- What is the evidence that kids are born with grammar?
- What is phonology and what does it govern?
- What is the process of speech comprehension?
- What are the principles of pragmatics?
- Why study linguistics?
“Every sentence one speaks is a unique sentence never mentiones before in history.” Pinker
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