Generative linguistics and the neural basis of language, with Noam Chomsky
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The Differences Between English and Swahili
I know that both your parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. Did you all speak English or a variety? Native language was Yiddish, but they would never let us hear it. And what languages were spoken in your household? I did study Hebrew from an early childhood. But they didn't, but they just spoke English to you in the home,. huh? Only English. They were fluent in English. My father's, who came when he was 17, spoke with an accent. His mother came when she was a baby, so she was native. So you were kind of probably surrounded by English, but learning Hebrew and also hearing Yiddish. Were you immediately struck by the common
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