Professor: David Luciano
Class: INGL 3225
College: University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus
Grace H. Rodríguez Cruz
ENGL3225- Introduction to Language
Prof. D.H. Luciano
March 10th, 2014
Humans have
always wanted to find the answers of the mysteries of everyday life. Some may
aim for space, and others may aim for closer grounds. Marc D. Hauser, Noam
Chomsky and W. Tecumseh Fitch introduced the article: “ The Faculty of
Language: What Is it Who has It and How Did It Evolve?” in which the main
purpose of the writing is to explain the relation between the biology with and
the linguistic outbreak the humans created to distinct themselves from other
animals. “One aim of this essay is to promote a stronger connection between
biology and linguistics by identifying points of contact and agreement between
the fields.”
From the main
topics, the authors mainly focus on proving how the faculty of language has a
broad sense called the FLB and the narrow sense (FLN). The broad sense includes
what provides the capacity to generate an infinite range of expressions from
limited elements. These will include the
sensory-motor system, a conceptual-intentional system and the
computational mechanisms of recursión. However, the FLN brings to the article
the distinction of human exclusive components like using numbers, navigation
systems and social relations.
The level of
expertise of the authors is highly convincing due to the fact of all three of
them domaining the topic of study. The authors convincingly talked with the
Works and examples done by other fellow researchers such as Darwin, Boysen and
Matsuzawa, Galileo, Descartes and so on to bring forth proof and to bring the
thesis from their own works. The accuracy of the article was spot on in
everything they explained, giving a table to proof the emphirical behaviors and
pictures to make the visual learning easier. The article might be from the
early 2000s, but it shows good domain and a still belieavable argument that
dates today’s mystery with language.
In my opinion,
the article is beautifuly written with logical proof and an enthusiasm for
teaching others that I’ve rarely seen around a neuroscience article. I
definitely agree with their aim and the relationship between the biological
factor and the linguistic development because it has a good part of the “how”
and the “why” language started.
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