Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Page #2
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reflects deep-seated features
of human creativity,
from any other biological system we know.
Tonight, scientists talk to the animals.
But are they talking back?
and Mary Lou Finlay.
Communicating with animals
is a serious scientific pursuit.
This is Nim Chimpsky.
the great linguist Noam Chomsky,
was the great hope of animal communication
in the 1970s.
For four years Pettito and others coached him
in sign language,
but in the end they decided it was a lost cause.
Nim could ask for things, but not much more.
I would have loved
to have a conversation with Nim
and understand how he looked at the universe.
He failed to communicate that information to
me, and we gave him every opportunity.
Noam Chomsky,
theorist of language and political activist,
has had an extraordinary career.
I can think of none like it in recent American
history and few anywhere any time.
He has literally transformed
the subject of linguistics.
He also has become one of the most consistent
critics of power politics in all its protean guises.
Scholar and propagandist, his two careers
apparently reinforce each other.
In 1957, he published his Syntactic Structures,
which began what has frequently been called
the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics.
Like a latter-day Copernicus,
Chomsky proposed a radically new way
of looking at the theory of grammar.
Chomsky worked out the formal rules
of the universal grammar
which had generated the specific rules
of actual or natural languages.
The general approach I'm taking seems to me
rather simple minded and unsophisticated,
but, nevertheless, correct.
Later he came to argue that such systems
are innate features of human beings.
They belong to the characteristics
of the species
and have been, in effect, programmed
into the genetic equipment of the mind
like the machine language in a computer.
One needn't be interested in this question.
Of course, I am interested in it.
The interesting question from this point of view
is what is the nature of the initial state?
That is, what is human nature in this respect?
That in turn explains the...
...astonishing.
Try the next one.
Fa-cki-li-ty
- Facility.
- Facility.
That in turn explains the
astonishing facility children have
in learning the rules of natural language,
no matter how complicated, incredibly quickly,
from what are imperfect
and oten degenerate samples.
- Compli...
- Complicated.
It's a complicated word.
Do you know what "complicated" means?
It means it's complicated.
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