Language [Part 2]
Researches on the animals demonstrated that parrots were capable of articulating words and even responded to human’s speeches, while chimps and other animal, such as dolphins that had been also researched, could not do this. However, no matter how much the animals made progress in showing that they understood ‘language’ and in some cases were...
Language [Part 1]
Only human kind is blessed with ‘language capacity’ ( the Language Acquisition Device or LAD), an essentially unique quality. At least, this is what Noam Avram Chomsky, one of the most leading theoretical linguist in history, has proclaimed. Chomsky’s opinion on the human’s language is as quoted below. When we study language, we are approaching...
