Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain | Big Think

excellent presentation of the topic

Great

Child, children and Chomsky??

Qe Sociology Class 2024 says hello

Why does the onommatopic represe3ntation of dog barking changes from language to language ?

Haha thats a v1 voice.

Interesting … but silly noises renders unlistenable !!!

Esta conferencia es una genialidad... Me ha dado la vuelta a años de reflexiones e intuiciones sobre el lenguaje, la inteligencia y las facultades humanas...

Such an awesome class.

Soooo freakin' fascinating. What a strange species we are. Sometimes I think we deserve extinction, other times not so much... In my next life, I want to be Pinker's student. PS could have 'sung', not 'sang'.

I’m sorry but am I supposed to watch 50 min for my assignment!!!😢

You are already legendary. You discussed with Fodor and Chomsky and demonstrated that human people have the necessity of speaking, like socializing

It is not a random attribute, is a necessity

It demonstrates that language is a necessity. Survival of the fittest 🐒

Sorry, I’m very excited!!

I appreciate how the video description says reknowned linguist and at the top of the video the dr says " now im not a linguist". 😄😄😄

He probably doesn’t know that all language started with the Sanskrit language whose alphabet is based on sounds that are fundamental.. We were given language. The problem is that many give talks on information which is not correct, not based on historical fact.

When he sighed to demonstrate Yiddish word I thought he actually got tired of talking :)

I took an introductory linguistics class in college. Huge auditorium with over 200 students. The professors was describing the difference between grammar and linguistics and he said, "Take not ending your sentence in a preposition. That comes from Latin. But there's nothing in Latin or any other language we should aspire to." [I was the huge nerd in the back who laughed causing the professor to explain how he accidentally ended his sentence in a preposition]. [I am, in fact, fun at parties, but not because of this]

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Solitary confinement and non lethal weapons DO affect language

Steven Pinker is a non-thinker, he comes up with weird arguments, cringe philosophy and non-scientific shenanigans. But for some reason, he is heavily astroturfed by mainstream "intellectual circles". This guy didn't have any interesting or original idea since his conception. It is so bizzare.

Meritless meaningless mediocre mumbojumbo nothing more 🤷
As per usual from this propaganda channel

I used to follow Chomsky in my youth and incorporated many of his theoretical ideas (particularly universal grammar and innate language ability) - as well as other “classic” theories by modern linguists into my language acquisition R&D.

But he/they are wrong. I started to doubt his initial theories, ironically, because of his woolly & illogical (and ignorant) tirade against Israel and his pro-Palestinian rhetoric. If he’s so obviously wrong about Jewish/Palestinian issues then his theories might be equally dogmatic and unfounded on any solid facts or evidence.

My approach to language acquisition is in many ways contrary to theories of natural child acquisition, universal grammar, etc. And it shows, because the Rapid Method (which is more based on cognitive ways of thinking and remembering, plus the physiology of how sounds are produced, rather than linguistics) seems significantly more effective than the classic ways of learning a language.

Let’s just take the example of forming questions. This inversion only really applies in English (and even then it’s not always necessary). In Thai, a statement is “want coffee” (I want a coffee) and the question form is simply “want coffee [question?]” (This becomes understood as “Do you want a coffee?”) You simply add the verbal question mark (see Victor Borge’s Phonetic Punctuation) to the end of a sentence to change it into a question.

You can do the same in English: “You want a coffee?” just by changing the inflection at the end. “You want a coffee” is simply a statement.

French follows a similar pattern: “Tu veux un café” is the statement. But “Est-ce que tu veux un café?” Is the question. No inversion required (although you can do so if you want).

There is a logic (or series of pattern rules) in each language, and that seems to be fairly universal. But a child will seek these patterns out, often incorrectly (usually by mishearing what adults are saying, and often because they “re-interpret” what they hear into their own language system). You cannot teach a child (and often even an adult) how to say something correctly because they don’t acknowledge it subconsciously and almost immediately discard the corrected form because it doesn’t fit into their habitual mechanisms of understanding and speech. You can see this by how language is evolving before our eyes in real time. Teenagers or sub-cultures (especially with social media) invent new ways of expressing themselves, and these become the new language iteration for the next generation (and perhaps even described in the grammar books as the correct way to speak or write, LOL)!

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As for speech recognition, our brains seem to have an “inner ear” that recreates what we hear according to what we already know and based on our expectations. A bit like an analog-to-digital processor that fills in the gaps by guessing. The Rapid Method focuses on reading (out loud) long before embarking on listening skills - because one can’t really hear what people are saying unless one can produce the sounds oneself and already knows(or can guess) what is being said. The latter seems counter-intuitive, but you can test it yourself by watching a modern, indistinct movie with and without closed captions. You can hear what people are saying far more distinctly when you follow the closed captions.

Here is how I have been using my language in the first 10 min of this video: what a great amount of interesting information, accompanied by terrible sound effects. How annoying.

Well so far I think it's just a lot of words for the sake of a lot of words

jesus is lord

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Pinker throwing a bit of shade at Chomsky.

Never trust a zionist

He Be working Vs he working 🤣 that’s where you lost me bud. Waste of time.

the last time I checked , African American dialect-he be working-we do not use to communicate he is working. I am African American- we say Yada yada he's employed. Are you referencing an episode from the Boondocks?!! Stop generalization!!

Where could we find the studies Mr Pinker cites ! I'm interested in learing more !

The daft sound effects are a bit annoying

Horrible attempt at sound effects

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the description says "renowned linguist and Harward Psychilogy Professor..." but he says himself he isn't a linguist.

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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously... Colorless (bland) green (new) ideas sleep (percolate in background mode) furiously (because the thinker is stressed out and trying to find an answer). While the initial sentence seems unmeaningful...It has a James Joyce/ Ulysses -esq deliberately precise and inscrutable flavor... just sayin.

the transcript original link doesn't work..:(

A quick comment on the "structure dependent rule" idea. Foreign people learning English do not automatically get this right. Other languages have different grammatical and logical structures which don't directly translate into English. Basing science on thinking without evidence does not always produce rational outputs. To claim that a human is born with an innate knowledge of grammar immediately spawns the question of "how"? Is there any evidence for DNA sequences that code for such a thing? Is there any explanation for why this "hard wiring" generates different rules depending on whether you are Chinese or Indian or English? Additionally, is there any evidence of this "hard wired" basic language emerging in humans who have grown up estranged from other humans during early childhood? Do Chomsky and Pinker believe that, if you brought up several babies together in the absence of speech, they would somehow develop their own language? What happens to the hearing babies of deaf parents?

It should be noted in assessing Chomsky's claims that he holds beliefs about consciousness being something more than a production of the human brain, also without evidence. Studying something ones whole life does not mean they are the oracles on that matter. After all, Kent Hovind and Ken Ham have studied religion all their lives and look what they come up with!

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Please talk to whoever edited this video and added the annoying sound effects NOT to do it. Too loud and too annoying. Great content otherwise.