Discovering the human language
Subtitle: "colorless green ideas"
By: produced, written and directed by Gene Searchinger ; Equinox Films.
Contributors: Miller, George A. 1920-; Searchinger, Gene.; Equinox Film, Inc.; Ways of Knowing, Inc.
Series: Human language series ; 1
Publisher: Ways of Knowing Inc.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Hohokus, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general.; Language and languages.; Linguistics.
Notes: FOR CLASSROOM USE ONLY.  Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Asks basic questions about language, such as whether there is a core of properties that are true of all human languages, how do people interact with language, and how do people learn to follow the rules of language, without knowing why? Discusses Noam Chomsky's idea that the language faculty is a subsystem of the human brain, that language is determined biologically. Many linguists give their views on such topics as words and concepts, sentences, grammar, syntax, and the idea of a universal grammar.

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