The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Forget the language instinct--this is the story of how we make up language as we goLanguage is perhaps humanity's most astonishing capacity--and one that remains poorly understood. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of lang… Celý popis ↓
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The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Forget the language instinct--this is the story of how we make up language as we goLanguage is perhaps humanity's most astonishing capacity--and one that remains poorly understood. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of language got it wrong. In The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H.
From this new vantage point, Christiansen and Chater find compelling solutions to major mysteries like the origins of languages and how language learning is possible, and to long-running debates such as whether having two words for "blue" changes what we see. Language isn't about hardwired grammars but about near-total freedom, something like a game of charades, with the only requirement being a desire to understand and be understood. In the end, they show that the only real constraint on
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