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Human Language, Part One: Discovering the Human Language--Colorless Green Ideas*
- 1995 ----- color ----- 55 min ----- vhs
- The human species alone has the miracle of syntax--words, sentences, and Universal Grammar--the system claimed to be common to all the world's languages. Language is untidy, yet strictly rule-goverened. "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is gibberish, but grammatically correct. Does this show that structure can be separate from meaning? The "Chomskyan revolution" changed language study into a search for what goes on inside the brain. The great achievement of language is that we can think in abstractions; that we can say anything we can think; that only we can say new things. (Closed-Captioned) (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Education, English: Composition and Grammar, Linguistics, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Speech Communications)
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