From: Sent: To: Subject: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Monday, November 2, 2015 3:01 PM Noam Chomsky Re: More im •ortantl our dishes will soon be well or: anized =br> On Monday, 2 November 2015, Noam Chomsky I don't see how his elaborate=efforts go beyond what had been done long before, using primitive technolo=y: recording. It gets a lot of data, but doesn't tell us much. The particular topic that seems to in=erest him — what's called "motherese" in t=e literature (the way parents talk to children) — has been studied=pretty carefully, notably by Lila Gleitman, the best psycholinguist in the modern period, I =hink (and an old friend). There doesn't seem to be much to i=. And it's known that children develop language normally und=r all sorts of circumstances, including conditions very much unlike the ultra-nurturing ones that Roy is investigation. E.g., wit= no input, as in the cases I mentioned. And the results about words can =99t be right. At peak periods of language growth, children are picki=g them up at rate of about one per waking hour. Noam From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 11:57 PM To: Noam Chomsky <I MEIMMEIES Subject: Re: i thought you might have an idea of how to do an exp=riment. given the new tech On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Noam Chomsky rote: I rarely watch video, but did go thro=gh the first 10 minutes. Underwhelmed. 1 EFTA_R1_01601141 EFTA02483723