Noam Chomsky, Fundamental Issues in Linguistics (April 2019 at MIT) - Lecture 1

[@englishplusacademy9211]

A legend in the field of language. It is nice to see him giving live lecture.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Nurofen + Aspirin

[@mytechid9748]

Choms' still got it!

[@JamesPeach]

NVM

[@gk411]

What is i t!

[@bilalmohammed0]

Noam Chomsky, Fundamental Issues in Linguistics (April 2019 at MIT) - Lecture 1 - what are the fundamental computational operations that enter into constructing syntactic objects and why are these and others? - what are we trying to achieve in the study of language? - Galileo was awed by the question "How do finite means produce infinite means?" -language and individuals' languages are unique to humans. -capturing the notion in the mind that enables us to construct in our minds infinite expressions is difficult which behaviorists ignored. Unlike behaviorism, which was concerned with external structures of language, innatism was concerned with the notion of internal structure in the mind which led the study of language to be in the natural science, ie., biolinguistics is one example. - the I-language, the basic property of language, the internal system/the finite system became the subject of study in the study of language in the 20th century. - how the speaker of a language selects a syntactic object out of an infinite array is a total mystery. - the acquisition of the I-language is encountered with a couple of conflicting conditions, learnability, and evolvability. - how can we take simple operations, like Merge, to achieve genuine explanations? -dislocation and compositionally put together yield genuine explanation.

[@doubtingthelimit]

I really struggled paying attention to what he was saying, until I set it to 1,5 times the speed. My mind finally managed fully to focus on Chomsky‘s lecture (I have adhd), and this was great! 😊❤️

[@uydfi35]

i was just about to say this could be related to adhd since the same happens to me, glad you already know haha, glad you enjoyed the lecture, much love!

[@doubtingthelimit]

@@uydfi35 I was only diagnosed two months ago, so it’s amazing to not feel dumb or like the weird one out and realized my brain is just wired a little bit different. Thank you for replying ❤️

[@RobKohr]

There is a Firefox add-on called Video Speed Controller, and a similar on chrome. After a while you get used to faster speeds, and even the 2x limit that youtube gives you isn't enough, and a video like this is pretty comfortable at 3-3.5x.

[@abisatyaahnaf1092]

Hard to understand

[@SupeHero00]

Same for me and I don't have adhd

[@letssuperfuntime]

What a gem this lecture is. Thanks for sharing.

[@letssuperfuntime]

@@victortronin8955 take Ur meds chief

[@deelirious]

what a luxury, thanks for sharing

[@khashayarmotarjemi5442]

2:17 that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

[@CHRISDABAHIA]

You've never seen a wave and a smile before?

[@khashayarmotarjemi5442]

It's about the wink -__-

[@CHRISDABAHIA]

@@khashayarmotarjemi5442 Fair enough 👌🏽

[@twelveshepherd9331]

Ever seen??? Ever in your whole life?

[@SpiritintheSky.]

Extremely informative and interesting, of course, but let's not forget his superb delivery in a lecture theatre. He makes it seem so easy, and so easy for his audience. Exemplary.

[@Risingsun294]

Best of the best for this guy..he makes us linguistics so damned proud

[@czarquetzal8344]

A very prolific thinker and public intellectual!

[@lateefalqasab6864]

Thanks for sharing this rare masterpiece.

[@shahedahmed4751]

Choms' still got the charms!

[@IMAHMS]

Clearly, to identify objects as distict things, is a motor function; it pertains to what can be done with that object. Moreover, the syntax structure of language is that of representing an action, and the area of language formation in the brain (Broca's area) is located in the frontal lobe pre-motor area which is involved in planning actions.

[@moctarbebaha7582]

Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@docnerd4570]

Thank you for sharing. Such a legend.

[@BrenoAguiar97]

In some places on Earth, we can't even think about having classes with the God Chomsky.

[@aaasthaa]

Julia falk Jesperson- notion of structure in mind

[@melodyjang2876]

I hope there is transcription available. It would be my valuable possession.

[@czarquetzal8344]

Why do you need a transcript? Just listen to him.

[@farahali5754]

بحترم جداااااااا كبار السن في التعليم لا مثيل لهم Youth , his body language is more than mental expressions and thoughts

[@e.c.3844]

NOAM CHOMSKY AMERICAN PROFESSOR

[@د.عبدالزهرةعودة]

رحم الله من وضع لنا ترجمة بالعربية

[@BigBossTV7]

لن تفيدكم الترجمة في شيء لأن ما يقوله ينطبق خاصة على اللغة الإنجليزية والفكر الغربي.

[@Josephus_vanDenElzen]

1:50 Galileo 2:08 How is it possible to express an inffinite number of ideas with a couple of dozens sounds, which in itself have nothing in common with the thoughts in our minds and allow us to understand what is not present in consicousness? That's indeed an interesting question. But, doesn't he goes too far with 3:06 "everything we can conceive and the most diverse movements of our soul" Some experiences are auditory and visual; consider colours, one can tell a blind man everything there is to know about colours and yet when he would miraculously starts seeing for the first time his experience will be expanded.

[@halfcadence1417]

Conception and expression are not the same thing

[@MartinHaumann1]

Can someone within the field point towards the best textbooks to get into the theories, where the field is and the immediate frontier technical tasks ahead for bio-linguistics? Thank you.

[@MartinHaumann1]

@James Just ordered it James. Thank you.

[@brownshuri4820]

Could you share the book name for bio linguistics??

[@mgm8075]

what was the book?

[@rublechaser]

What was the boom?

[@jwkelley]

What is the book he is talking about Angela Ferricis? Sorry for butchering the name.. State of the art in Neurolinguistics? time stamp 1.16:22

[@jozefsitarcik629]

It is Angela Friederici. And the book is "Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity" with foreword by N.Chomsky

[@silasterkelsen5312]

Thanks for the upload. Could anyone help with the exact references to new studies and new books mr. Chomsky mentions so I can finde them? Unfortunately I was not able to find them.

[@emircokekoglu]

thank you!

[@tarek9133]

@James thanks a lot James

[@mgm8075]

what did james post?

[@emiliogonzalez1412]

That questioner is pretty confused by Noam’s use of the word neural nets but I think he doesn’t know the term refers to both biological and artificial systems. It’s just common to use it in an artificial context these days.

[@user-cx5ni7me6l]

Thanks for the upload.

[@TravisRiver]

He's 90 in this video!?! I feel like today, mid-COVID, all beard, his body is preserving all his energy for his piercing intellect.

[@ghofranemohamed6782]

He's genius,😍

[@abdulatifhamid1011]

wow indeed he is a greatest linguist

[@farahali5754]

Perfect , A few good men

[@e.c.3844]

Michael Bloomberg Blue Eyes.

[@سارهمحمد-ث4ش4ض]

Good morning I have reserch how can I be in contact with you thanks

[@Blancobobea]

Thank you for sharing!!!

[@autentyk5735]

There is very little linguistics meat & potatoes on youtube as of late 2021. Hats off to Noam Chomsky, but you won't learn a whole lot from this lecture here.

[@lukebradley7984]

Abralin is the closest for a semi-lay audience. For something more structured, there is Martin Hilpert's long-running series. There are also a myriad of professors who put great stuff up just as a kind of personal record and get next to no views (for obvious reasons); a random example is Nathan Hill (SOAS).

[@SelfWiz]

Thanks for sharing this gem

[@casteretpollux]

Language is social and historic and evolves rapidly in a social context and changing world. It's for communication. I'm.not seeing any mystery. Would anyone like to explain?

[@atheoma]

the mistery has been repeatedly articulated by noam in numerous interviews and lectures including this one. namely, the spoken/written language seemingly operates as a linear representation of symbols. on the other hand, reading or listening to a speech, we effectively ignore the linear sequence of words and decode the message as a complex structure which is not explicitly given. that means, we posses implicit ability to process any message tho this ability is totally separated from conciousness and unreachable by introspection. human kids demonstrate an exclusive ability to acquire language instinctly, long before they obtain enough linguistic data to learn the sintactic rules by statistic generalization of experience. the language is used almost exclusively for generating thought. humans, just as other animals, didn’t need language to communicate. being unable to generate complex recursive sintactic structures, big apes have still a profound system of communication with which they can communicate efficiently and sufficiently. the organs of speech were there long before the emergence of language so as in animals. try to scientifically explain all this with trivial statements like ‘language is social and historic and evolves rapidly in a social context and changing world’.

[@czarquetzal8344]

Read poetry. Is the language of poetry serves to communicate?

[@rembautimes8808]

Fantastic video

[@e.c.3844]

Mike Bloomberg Former Governor of New York City

[@christianhegemann1911]

The quintessence of all communications is the misunderstanding.

[@mr.k905]

A master in the field of langue, unfortunately not in the field of speaking.

[@leonsantamaria9845]

What and what.... professor Noam Chomsky....l will understand... you..class...l mad my self.....(Merge...p,q, ws....a,b....👍👋😄

[@dyssakis]

It's sad that the recording sucks so much

[@serdaracar.official]

the king.

[@tongusaphea6156]

I hope that other video can have subtitle for help person that english not good like me thaks you🥰

[@KUP-g3k]

wow! a legend!

[@inef85]

12:18 "Voluntary action is not a question which is currently fit for productive inquiry. " 👍 Brilliant response to the next time someone asks me why i broke something

[@dundoderdumme3044]

49:44 What does he say? It's hard to understand. Chorine language?

[@560crude2]

poor i-language I guess

[@amazingcaio4803]

He says 'Core I-language'. BTW, see 'core grammar' ('I-language' is synonymous with a particular sense of 'grammar').

[@navenchang]

Thanks.

[@gregpringle1299]

Wow, no one noticed that X-bar theory ruled out exocentric constructions! It was a central point of structuralism -- how could you have missed it, Noam?

[@reverie4632]

what is the book he is referencing to at 1:14:50?

[@khrazza]

Tell me plz

[@ragnarw.eliansson5299]

@@khrazza ISBN: 978-0395951057

[@kieronmcnulty6177]

I think it is: Memory and the Computational Brain - Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience - C.R. Gallistel and Adam Philip King

[@HousmanBrandon-r8p]

Thompson John Garcia Mark Taylor Ruth

[@eatthecoffee7952]

thanks for this

[@justbeyourself-gx3nd]

thanks a lot!

[@e.c.3844]

But Yesterday I Spoke with Prime Minister Trudeau.

[@linguistics1224]

What is this about?

[@jackymarcel4108]

Perez Daniel Lopez Ronald Anderson Nancy

[@beahumane]

Great👌👌 #beahumane

[@vinm300]

Play on speed 1.5

[@yasseralrefaee3818]

Thanks

[@e.c.3844]

Governor Chowdhury

[@scottcampbell7384]

Mental giant, moral fool. I can still see him singing with Hugo Chavez before the demise of Venezuela. After the demise was well underway, Noam tried to back pedal with the typical "nobody ever does socialism right" lame excuse. PS_ I adore the comments...I haven't seen this much fawning since Bambi was released by Walt Disney studious in 1942.

[@e.c.3844]

Governor Bloomberg

[@EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21]

22:00

[@czarquetzal8344]

I like the philosophical foundation of his linguistics - Essentialism. It retains something that cannot be fully grasped by empirical science

[@ghirardellichocolate201]

You know how democracy is not about inheritance. Basically just because one of the family members is a professor does not mean the other one has to be a professor as well? So in corrupt society where everyone is about connections mathematics does not work neither does economics.

[@Lokitofrances]

Hello everyone! Could someone translate these lectures into Spanish? I'm very interested, but I don't understand any English. Thanks

[@ArunVBM23ID100]

That Wink....

[@two_kopecks]

16

[@saleh9946]

The first time I see vowels and diphthongs alive

[@saleh9946]

I used to hear and read them in written

[@justinjozokos1699]

If you watch at 1.5 speed, he talks about as fast as a normal person. You're welcome

[@mathman2170]

I tried "2x" but found 1.5 to be optimal. LOL

[@skynut]

Thxs...this suggestion is a gem

[@zlatashkolnaya4378]

LOL, I actually like his natural speed, it's relaxing

[@noresponse1068]

He still alive?

[@chuckbowie5833]

Interesting that, after all these years, this guy a) keeps misquoting Saussure and b) keeps conflating explanation with arbitrary reduction. Shame.

[@e.c.3844]

Prime Minister Bidon and President Bloomberg

[@chickenfeed6272]

SNORE

[@thomsnvykovski6135]

based

[@DS-yg4qs]

Starts to talk about language... there he goes with Turing and Godel. No no no... language is about art, not math.

[@Crowdle]

Yeah he really does inflate the complexity in explanation while also somehow managing to remove what’s natural about language

[@jdm3656]

Language is used in both art and mathematics.

[@dresdenliam]

Let's go Brandon

[@rappakalja5295]

Parrot

[@brandgardner211]

Trying to square linguistic theory with some supposed "theory of evolution" is a wrong turn. Just stick to language as it actually is, focus entirely on that. And forget about how it supposedly came about. Self-evidently it did. Even if you could show the "evolution", it still explains nothing in terms of actual human language as it actually is. It is a typical way of going off into irrelevance, with overly puffed up "theories" re the origin of traits, etc., posing as, in this case, essentially, philosophical anthropology. But it can never be that. Chomsky here is not heeding his own advice to not be distracted by psychologically compelling but essentially irrelevant happenstance, circumstance, accidental things, etc.

[@Laocoon283]

There's a reason why M.I.T has a linguistics department. I'll let you try and figure out why M.I.T might be interested in the origins and evolution of language.

[@czarquetzal8344]

How can linguistic evolution irrelevant? It helps us understand language acquisition and the role of culture in its change. Remembers that language is not used in the vacuum. It needs space and time for it to function and develop..

[@brandgardner211]

"...it's fiendishly difficult to give an explanation for the evolution of almost any trait..." Could it be because the idea of "evolution" is, basically, rubbish?

[@kieronmcnulty6177]

No. It's because nature is difficult to understand.

[@brandgardner211]

And it becomes even harder to understand when you approach it with all sorts of dogmatic assumptions.

[@kieronmcnulty6177]

I don't understand your comment. Do you really think that the Theory of Evolution is a dogmatic assumption. Do you believe it to be rubbish?

[@brandgardner211]

If you read Stephen Jay Gould's "Structure of Evolutionary Theory" his magnum opus, essentially [over 1,000 pgs] it is clear that the theory has gone through so many changes that it is hard to get a clear fix on what exactly it is. It also seems to have many logical holes -- which have been pointed out by, for ex., Prof. David Berlinski, and others. And, as Rupert Sheldrake has emphasized, genes don't account for many aspects of an organism -- especially as regards its form, shape. I think the theory has become a kind of secular dogma, substituting for religion, and questioning it to any degree or in any way prompts an intense and irrational hostility -- consider the venomous response given to Jerry Fodor's work, for instance -- you can see it here on yt, some people in that audience seemed like they wanted to run him out of town. I think it has become a fixed, entrenched, at times irrational, dogmatic, mental structure in some intellectual circles.

[@kieronmcnulty6177]

Of course its gone through changes as it's an aspect of science, science doesn't stay static. The theories of evolution have changed over time with new research, new evidence and new discoveries. Would you expect anything else? Darwin didn't know anything about genes and the modern synthesis versions of evolutionary theory have had to incorporate evo-devo approaches. The fundamentals are pretty rock solid though. I absolutely agree that evolution and genetics do not account for everything in biology. Chomsky makes that point repeatedly in his writings and lectures around this subject, I've seen that he sceptical about the many 'just-so' stories, particularly in evolutionary psychology. There's an interesting YT video in which he talks some of these these things - "Chomsky on Evolution", Stony Brook Interview #3 with Richard Larson" I think from about 2003 or so.