Gary M. et al.,
It’s apparently true that “A child absolutely left on its own will never have
language beyond Umberto Eco's Latratus canis. But it’s not necessarily true
that “It is someone already knowledgeable in communicative human language that
must teach them.” Children who interact
The topic of feral children (children raised by animals, e.g., the Wild Boy of
Aveyron) is relevant to this topic... as well as that of the domestication of
animals, given that domestication reverses the feral condition to which animals
are naturally (without human intervention) predisposed.
Phyllis, my suggestion for getting an affordable copy of Stjernfelts
Diagrammatology is to create an account with Springer online, sign up for
email notices, and then wait until they have a sale on selected e-books,
which they often do. I bought a PDF of it at a reasonable price when
Springer
Dear Stephen
I think it is because the big bang theory combined with thermodynamics is the
material foundation of the received scientific view and trust in that we are at
the brink of knowing all the fundamental laws of nature including the laws of
the DNA, of language and now the brain. This
Sorry for this mistake. It was supposed to be an internal mail to a Danish
linguistic specialist.
Søren
Fra: Søren Brier [mailto:sb@cbs.dk]
Sendt: 4. juni 2014 17:12
Til: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu
Emne: [PEIRCE-L] Japan?
Hej Per
Jeg fik slet ikke hørt hvordan Japan rejsen gik? Jeg håber
I have a problem, Gary Moore, with your focus on 'punishments' in language
learning. Perhaps this is just the vocabulary that you are using but I don't
think that language learning is based around rewards and punishments which is a
reactive (Secondness) and mechanical process.
I think that
Listers,
Although I know well that 'anecdote' is not singular for 'data,' I might have
some experience to contribute to this discussion. We have 5 grown children (our
youngest is 40). All three of our girls are adopted. The oldest was adopted at
birth; the other 2 (half sisters) were adopted
Excellent! I needed that story right now.
On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 4:58 PM, Phyllis Chiasson ath...@olympus.net wrote:
Listers,
Although I know well that 'anecdote' is not singular for 'data,' I might have
some experience to contribute to this discussion. We have 5 grown children (our
Edwina,
I, too, had extensive Latin instruction (12 years Catholic schools) and we
studied Greek prefixes and suffixes too. Latin and Greek are so basic to
understanding English vocabulary, that I don't understand why they are not
universally taught in American schools. (Of course, Latin is
