
Generative linguistics and the neural basis of language, with Noam Chomsky
The Language Neuroscience Podcast
What's the Structure of Language?
The field of the scientific study of language basically has four pillars, theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neuroscience. They're all linked. You can't study acquisition of language without some conception of what language is. Just like I can't study growth of the organism without knowing what the structure of the organism is. A child who's producing two word expressions is understanding complex lenses and already knows complex fundamental properties of language.
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