CARTA: How Language Evolves: Ray Jackendoff: What Can You Say without Syntax?
Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) In this talk Ray Jackendoff explores forms of language with very limited organization. Such languages largely lack the familiar ...
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♪ [music] ♪ - We are the paradoxical ape, bi-pedal, naked, large brained, long the master of fire, tools and language but still trying to understand ourselves. Aware that death is inevitable yet filled with optimism. We grow up slowly. We hand down knowledge. We empathize and deceive. We shape the future from our shared understanding of the past. CARTA brings together experts from diverse disciplines to exchange insights on who we are and how we got here. An exploration made possible by the generosity of humans like you. ♪ [music] ♪ - [Ray] I should first give equal billing to Eva Wittenberg who did a lot of this work with me. Can you identify yourself there? Yay, right there. One of the big questions for anthropogeny is, "How did language evolve in our species?" This i...
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♪ [music] ♪ - We are the paradoxical ape, bi-pedal, naked, large brained, long the master of fire, tools and language but still trying to understand ourselves. Aware that death is inevitable yet filled with optimism. We grow up slowly. We hand down knowledge. We empathize and deceive. We shape the future from our shared understanding of the past. CARTA brings together experts from diverse disciplines to exchange insights on who we are and how we got here. An exploration made possible by the generosity of humans like you. ♪ [music] ♪ - [Ray] I should first give equal billing to Eva Wittenberg who did a lot of this work with me. Can you identify yourself there? Yay, right there. One of the big questions for anthropogeny is, "How did language evolve in our species?" This i...
