Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6KDhd702453; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:43:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:43:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3EB8B50E.21FF14E0.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2441] Re: Syntax X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 661 Lines: 11 Andres. This is brief. Chomsky knows zip about speech and language evolution, he is a linguist and spends his time on grammar. I am interested in teaching adults (he isn't) and in what language is. So with some other types of researchers I have come down to syntax. Language/speech are interactive, developing through human interaction. The capacity for speech is innate, but if a person doesn't hear language by 7 years it won't develop. Piaget was interested in the development of "scientific" thinking, you know, holding one thing constant and manipulating the variables. Look at all his observations and experiments and you will see this. Andrea
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