GrishaRemake

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by GrishaRemake 17y ago
From the article: "Fitch’s experiments were inconclusive on the subject of whether Chomsky’s universal grammar applied to the Pirahã" And Tecumseh Fitch is the one who developed a concept of Recursion in linguistics. How do you explain that
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by GrishaRemake 17y ago
"Vocal learning, the substrate of human language, is a very rare trait. It is known to be present in only 6 groups of animals: 3 groups of birds (parrots, songbirds, and hummingbirds) and 3 groups of mammals (bats, cetaceans[whales/dolphins
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by GrishaRemake 17y ago
The ancestor of the elephants was aquatic and had a similar lifestyle to a hippopotamus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#Evolution
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by GrishaRemake 17y ago
An ignition indicates that the car has an internal combustion engine. The speech-enabling gene FOXP2 indicates that there are brain circuits that make vocal learning possible. The question is why this gene is present in aquatic mammals and
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by GrishaRemake 17y ago
People with mutation in this single gene lose the ability for vocal learning and speech. How do you explain that?
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by GrishaRemake 17y ago
First of all, this theory is not stupid. Humans belong to a small number of animal groups that display vocal learning. Vocal Learning Animals have a special “language” gene ( FoxP2 ), that gives them the ability to learn and imitate sounds
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by GrishaRemake 17y ago
Good advise
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by GrishaRemake 17y ago
I think it all depends on people's personality type. Extrovert will be more successful when he lives in a startup hotbed. Introvert doesn't need anybody, he can live anywhere he likes.