Entries from Group 4 Language Blog tagged with 'Pete Obourn-Psych 440'
Language Channels
On pages 54 and 55 Fox talks a little about Chomskyâ??s argument against language as a learned behavior. Chomsky makes a compelling case for the existence of an inborn linguistic blueprint. It seems almost impossible that language is strictly a...
So what?
Agar seems to conclude that language and culture are very closely related. He even uses the term languaculture. It would be difficult to argue this proposal. Clearly there are many different languages and even different dialects within languages that are...
"Bridge"-ing the Gap
Romaine makes it clear that our educational system needs vast improvement when it comes to teaching and accepting language. It is sad to read that the racial and ethnic problems that have plagued our country for so long are still...
Artificial Speech Errors
In chapter 11, Erard talked a lot about artificial intelligence and teaching machines to understand speech errors, pause fillers, and verbal blunders. This, to me, was almost frightening. Is it really possible to teach a machine to understand? It may...
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