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

@NazriB

2 жыл бұрын

Lies again? Nurofen + Aspirin

Choms' still got it!

@JamesPeach

3 жыл бұрын

NVM

@gk411

3 жыл бұрын

What is i t!

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

Hard to understand

@SupeHero00

Жыл бұрын

Same for me and I don't have adhd

A very prolific thinker and public intellectual!

Thanks for sharing this rare masterpiece.

Thank you for sharing. Such a legend.

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

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

Choms' still got the charms!

What a gem this lecture is. Thanks for sharing.

@letssuperfuntime

Жыл бұрын

@@victortronin8955 take Ur meds chief

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

@CHRISDABAHIA

2 жыл бұрын

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

@khashayarmotarjemi5442

2 жыл бұрын

It's about the wink -__-

@CHRISDABAHIA

2 жыл бұрын

@@khashayarmotarjemi5442 Fair enough 👌🏽

@twelveshepherd9331

2 жыл бұрын

Ever seen??? Ever in your whole life?

what a luxury, thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for sharing this.

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

Thanks for the upload.

wow! a legend!

Fantastic video

Thank you for sharing!!!

He's genius,😍

Julia falk Jesperson- notion of structure in mind

Thanks for sharing this gem

Perfect , A few good men

My dear friend Iliass, I dedicate this lecture to you.

@tahiriiliass9177

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much my friend 🙏

the king.

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

wow indeed he is a greatest linguist

Thanks.

thanks for this

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

4 жыл бұрын

@James Just ordered it James. Thank you.

@brownshuri4820

3 жыл бұрын

Could you share the book name for bio linguistics??

@mgm8075

2 жыл бұрын

what was the book?

@ianthompson926

2 жыл бұрын

What was the boom?

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

@czarquetzal8344

2 жыл бұрын

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

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.

The quintessence of all communications is the misunderstanding.

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

Great👌👌 #beahumane

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

thanks a lot!

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

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

Thanks

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

4 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@tarek9133

3 жыл бұрын

@James thanks a lot James

@mgm8075

2 жыл бұрын

what did james post?

رحم الله من وضع لنا ترجمة بالعربية

@BigBossTV7

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

4 ай бұрын

Conception and expression are not the same thing

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

2 жыл бұрын

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).

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?

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

@560crude2

2 жыл бұрын

poor i-language I guess

That Wink....

Play on speed 1.5

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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

4 ай бұрын

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

22:00

What is this about?

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

@khrazza

4 жыл бұрын

Tell me plz

@ragnarw.eliansson5299

4 жыл бұрын

@@khrazza ISBN: 978-0395951057

@kieronmcnulty6177

4 жыл бұрын

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

16

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

The first time I see vowels and diphthongs alive

@saleh9946

3 жыл бұрын

I used to hear and read them in written

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

@mathman2170

3 жыл бұрын

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

@skynut

3 жыл бұрын

Thxs...this suggestion is a gem

@zlatashkolnaya4378

3 жыл бұрын

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

It's sad that the recording sucks so much

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.

SNORE

@thomsnvykovski6135

Жыл бұрын

based

He still alive?

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

Let's go Brandon

@rappakalja5295

2 жыл бұрын

Parrot

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

@Crowdle

2 жыл бұрын

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

@jdm3656

Жыл бұрын

Language is used in both art and mathematics.

"...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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@brandgardner211

4 жыл бұрын

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

@kieronmcnulty6177

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

9 ай бұрын

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

4 ай бұрын

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..