<table><tr><th>From: </th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent: </td><td>Monday, November 2, 2015 3:01 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To: </td><td>Noam Chomsky</td></tr><tr><td>Subject: </td><td>Re: </td></tr></table>

<u>More</u> im <u>•ortantl</u> our dishes will <u>soon</u> be well or: <u>anized =br></u> On Monday, 2 November 2015, Noam Chomsky

I don't see how his elaborate=efforts go beyond what had been done long before, using primitive technolo=y: recording. It gets a lot of data, but doesn't tell us much.

The particular topic that seems to in=erest him — what's called "motherese" in t=e literature (the way parents talk to children) — has been studied=pretty carefully, notably by Lila Gleitman, the best psycholinguist in the modern period, I =hink (and an old friend). There doesn't seem to be much to i=. And it's known that children develop language normally und=r all sorts of circumstances, including conditions very much unlike the ultra-nurturing ones that Roy is investigation. E.g., wit= no input, as in the cases I mentioned.

And the results about words can =99t be right. At peak periods of language growth, children are picki=g them up at rate of about one per waking hour.

Noam

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 11:57 PM
To: Noam Chomsky <>
Subject: Re:

i thought you might have an idea of how to do an exp=riment. given the new tech

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Noam Chomsky rote:

I rarely watch video, but did go thro=gh the first 10 minutes. Underwhelmed.

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## fist 10 minutes are interesting =AO

https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word?language=en
<https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word?language=3Den>

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## fist 10 minutes are interesting =AO (cont.)

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