From: Noam Chomsky Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 2:18 AM To: jeffrey E. Cc: Valeria Chomsky Subject: Re: My fault for being too aggressive. I =hould have been more sensitive to the situation. Interesting =mage, but (as you know), I think the specific character of cognitive (like=physical) growth requires more specific mechanisms. There hav= incidentally be studies of "motherese" (the kinds of talk used =y mothers to babies) and the impact on development of language. Turn= 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 t=e topic. On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 8:34 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: yes- more of the story sitting in the Caribbean I hope. =C24kIts possible that the dna writes a score. the mus=c is played on both the internal instrument and modifiied by external experience . I believe a pleasant harmony might =epresent the voice of the mother. to in inhibit excitation ( basic p=tterns , like lullabys, use humming where disson=nce might represent an alarm or something to stimulate =o the adrenals. baby crying , dissonance animals dissonance, =C240- family members harmony, . could it be .=A0that the humming of m ( lullaby ) and the exhalation of ah. =C240would combine in an effort to mimic the internal harmony, 4>=A0 producing mah. or mom. ? . how is it that 45k=A0 the melody of"pop goes the weasel." has a simple g=ammar but a child can tell immediately if a "non grammatical &q=ot; note is played. adults can also tell instantaneously in a =ozart 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. =div> FYI. thank you for being patient with the boy who =orgot to take his asperger meds/ ( =rue). . On Sun, Jul 10, 201= at 8:08 PM, Noam Chomsky <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» wrote: W=at is better fo