From: Noam Chomsky To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com> Cc: Valeria Chomsky Subject: Re: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 02:17:52 +0000 My fault for being too aggressive. I should have been more sensitive to the situation. Interesting image, but (as you know), I think the specific character of cognitive (like physical) growth requires more specific mechanisms. There have incidentally be studies of "motherese" (the kinds of talk used by mothers to babies) and the impact on development of language. Turns out to be very slight, if any. Lila Gleitman, co-author of the work on blind children that I mentioned, is one of the leading researchers on the topic. On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 8:34 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: yes- more of the story sifting in the Caribbean I hope. Its possible that the dna writes a score. the music is played on both the internal instrument and modified by external experience . I believe a pleasant harmony might represent the voice of the mother. to in inhibit excitation ( basic patterns , like lullabys, use humming where dissonance might represent an alarm or something to stimulate to the adrenals. baby crying , dissonance animals dissonance, - family members harmony, . could it be that the humming of m ( lullaby ) and the exhalation of ah. would combine in an effort to mimic the internal harmony, producing mah. or mom. ? . how is it that the melody of'pop goes the weasel." has a simple grammar but a child can tell immediately if a "non grammatical " note is played. adults can also tell instantaneously in a Mozart symphony of thousands upon thousands of notes. that a clunker made it way in ( okok, maybe you cant ) due to the intra relation of the notes. FYI. thank you for being patient with the boy who forgot to take his asperger meds/ ( true). . On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Noam Chomsky < wrote: What is better for thought than echt Jewish delicatessen food. Glatt kosher, I hope. Very interesting experiment. It