Culture trumps biology in language development, study argues (fwd link)

[Neskie Manuel]

This is a bit off topic.

I always knew that Noam Chomsky was wrong.  One thing that I noticed
when running was that our Secwepemc word for energetic is cetcet.
When I run, I've been saying it and it feels very natural and it helps
me keep the beat when I'm running.  Saying the word gives me energy.

I went to school for Physics and I look at humans as some kind of
particle.  We are all Individuals.  We are also some kind of wave.
What kind of wave?  I don't know, but we receive and reproduce all
kinds of waves from nature.  Language is comprised of sound waves.

We are not some kind of oscillator, and our languages oscillate at a
certain frequency.  We must choose the rights words to put us in
certain states of mind.

I would like to know if there are any physicist linguists out there?

Cheers.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash
<cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Culture trumps biology in language development, study argues
>
> Researchers construct evolutionary trees for four linguistic groups and
> conclude that cultures, not innate preferences, drive the language rules
> humans create – contrary to the findings of noted linguists Noam Chomsky and
> Joseph Greenberg.
>
> By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
> April 14, 2011
> USA
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-language-20110414,0,1473928.story
>



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