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  1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

    so how about that universal grammar theory

    Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:20:21 UTC from web
    1. orungano orungano

      @awlelwa what's there to say about it

      Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:21:15 UTC from web
      1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

        @tiffany Nothing that isn't blatantly obvious. Much like the theory itself wahey

        Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:21:41 UTC from web
        1. orungano orungano

          @awlelwa it's p interesting

          Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:21:59 UTC from web
          1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

            @tiffany Yeah it explains a lot about our evolution in general but I thought it was common thought already before Chomsky put it to light.

            Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:23:19 UTC from web
            1. orungano orungano

              @awlelwa Chom was quite the pioneer

              Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:26:07 UTC from web
              1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                @tiffany No denying that. He at the very least put to light something that changed our viewpoints on the languages we create now, as in coding.

                Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:28:24 UTC from web
                1. orungano orungano

                  @awlelwa I tend to take Skinner's side

                  Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:32:13 UTC from web
                  1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                    @tiffany in behaviourism in general?

                    Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:35:08 UTC from web
                    1. orungano orungano

                      @awlelwa for the most part; behaviorism doesn't explain things like overgeneralisation and such

                      Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:36:32 UTC from web
                      1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                        @tiffany Well the reasons they're theories is because they can't explain everything without pinholes.

                        Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:37:32 UTC from web
                        1. orungano orungano

                          @awlelwa very very true

                          Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:37:53 UTC from web
                          1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                            @tiffany To be honest I'm not extremely familiar with skinner's full theory on behaviourism.

                            Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:38:44 UTC from web
                            1. orungano orungano

                              @awlelwa the gist of it is children learn through positive and negative reinforcement

                              Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:39:30 UTC from web
                              1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                                @tiffany Kind of got that from simply the title lol. (plus we might have discussed some of the tie-in with linguistics before).

                                Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:40:32 UTC from web
                                1. orungano orungano

                                  @awlelwa well it goes into stuff like feral children and stuff

                                  Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:41:38 UTC from web
                                  1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                                    @tiffany Oh that was it, yes.

                                    Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:42:11 UTC from web
                                  2. Scribus Scribus

                                    @tiffany Man, I thought you said "feral chicken," I was all having Hawaii flashbacks and junk.

                                    Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:44:17 UTC from web
                                  3. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                                    @tiffany You mean 90% of toddlers?

                                    Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:48:55 UTC from web
                                    1. Narwhal Narwhal

                                      @nerthos More along the lines of cases where children have no human contact for their entire critical development period, such as Victor of Aveyron

                                      Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:51:22 UTC from web
                                      1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                                        @northernnarwhal Yeah, I was just joking.

                                        Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:54:57 UTC from web
                                        1. Narwhal Narwhal

                                          @nerthos Ah, gotcha.

                                          Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:57:10 UTC from web
                  2. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                    @tiffany http://toweroftechnobabble.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/steamed_hams.jpg

                    Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:35:09 UTC from web
                    1. orungano orungano

                      @nerthos yas

                      Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:36:39 UTC from web
                    2. Narwhal Narwhal

                      @nerthos My friend and I actually used Principal Skinner as a mnemonic device to remember B.F. Skinner and his experiments for our psychology class.

                      Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:38:19 UTC from web
                  3. m14brony m14brony

                    @tiffany I believe I have a copy of his About Behaviorism in my study. I should look into it, especially considering that I haven't taken a psychology course in over a decade.

                    Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:54:20 UTC from web
                    1. orungano orungano

                      @m14brony it's pretty interesting if you're into language and such

                      Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:55:53 UTC from web
                      1. m14brony m14brony

                        @tiffany I will keep it in mind. I am interested in eventually learning foreign languages and learning more about language in general. Unfortunately, very little is done to promote serious study of foreign languages over here in the US.

                        Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:56:51 UTC from web
    2. monsutaa kaado! monsutaa kaado!

      @awlelwa never heard of it

      Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:22:03 UTC from web
      1. m14brony m14brony

        @mushi I am not familiar with it either.

        Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:22:19 UTC from web
      2. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

        @mushi Essentially explains that the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into our brains, genetics, what have you, and that all language has certain traits that co-incide with one another that supports that idea.

        Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:27:02 UTC from web
        1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

          @awlelwa It was just one of the basic evolutionary traits needed to develop truly advanced life. The ability to use and create tools, inventive, abstract thinking, and complex communication.

          Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:29:00 UTC from web
        2. monsutaa kaado! monsutaa kaado!

          @awlelwa i sot of thought it would be something like the mechanism our brains uses to decode the words into signals

          Monday, 10-Aug-15 03:33:09 UTC from web