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The book Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans makes a cogent argument for my position. It examines carefully the difference between
by vinceguidry 9y ago
The book Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans makes a cogent argument for my position. It examines carefully the difference between Animal Communication Systems and our own, in all the variety primitive humanity could devise.
https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Tongue-Humans-Made-Language-ebook/dp/B002LATV1Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510442011&sr=8-1&keywords=adam%27s+tongue https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Tongue-Humans-Made-Language-ebo...
- rusk 9y agoI think BF Skinner tried to take behaviourism here. All behaviour being mediated by conditioning, with thought being the sublimated stimulated response of the vocal chords. I think he made a good bit of headway with this but I think Noam Chomsky (language development being his substantive field) put the kaibosh on it. Can’t remember the nuances of the argument off hand.