Steven Pinker starts off this chapter by describing how easily language has come to us that we don't even think about it and don't have into account the many rules there exists for us to speak correctly.
A question given in the first page sound to me very interesting it is" What is the trick behind our ability to fill one another's heads with so many different ideas?
By words and rules serves us for communicate or thoughts and also a way to express out poetry and endless combinations.
In our brains we have certain codes or protocols or set of rules that specifies how words must be arranged into specific combinations.
This rules has to be productive
Also the symbols contained by the rules are symbolic and hence abstract.
The rules are combinatorial
Grammar is an example of a combinatorial system, in which a small inventory of elements can be assembled by rules into an immerse set of distinct objects.
Our grammar is recursive where the rules create an entity that can contain an example of itself.
Descartes suggested that a universal artificial language built on similar principles could organize all human thoughts by noticing that the decimal system allows a person to learn in a day the names of all the quantities to infinity.
A question given in the first page sound to me very interesting it is" What is the trick behind our ability to fill one another's heads with so many different ideas?
By words and rules serves us for communicate or thoughts and also a way to express out poetry and endless combinations.
In our brains we have certain codes or protocols or set of rules that specifies how words must be arranged into specific combinations.
This rules has to be productive
Also the symbols contained by the rules are symbolic and hence abstract.
The rules are combinatorial
Grammar is an example of a combinatorial system, in which a small inventory of elements can be assembled by rules into an immerse set of distinct objects.
Our grammar is recursive where the rules create an entity that can contain an example of itself.
Descartes suggested that a universal artificial language built on similar principles could organize all human thoughts by noticing that the decimal system allows a person to learn in a day the names of all the quantities to infinity.