[lbo-talk] Toward some better thoughts

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Thu Jul 23 09:15:20 PDT 2009


Chris Doss wrote:
> "Produc[ing] all the possible sounds of all human languages" is the same thing as "randomly making noises with the human voice box," like "producing all the possible sounds of a piano concerto" is (or can be) the same thing as "randomly beating on a piano keyboard." Does she explain how this develops into languages, for instance, do the gurglings take on a different character depending on whatever linguistic environment the baby is raised in?
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Yes. The more an infant hears a particular language, the more the babbling is focused on the phonemes of that language.

Miles



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