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Recollections Of A Wild Man In The Wings — Noam Chomsky

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Opposite View of Language

This is a controversial position. It's not widely held. But I think now there's mounting evidence for it. The basic properties of language are structured so as to give a formulation of thought. And the externalization into sensory motor systems usually sound, but it doesn't have to be,. could be sound, could be touch, but the normal one is sound. This is more useful in all kinds of situations. Turns out that the externalizationinto this doesn't seem to affect the inner workings of the language.

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