<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Friday, June 5, 2015 11:40 AM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Noam Chomsky</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: language of the blind</td></tr></table>

Im only a few hours into her work, and strange=y enough . much of her evidence ( cognizant of my bias )=br> oddly enough , seems to be in support of my naive conjectur= that the mapping from external light ( an ordered set ) =to coherent mental image is homologous to the mapping from mec=anical wave ( an ordered set ) to coherent sound image. ( I thought =ou to suggest that neither are necessarily required for thought =AO functions ie language does not need sound nor light It is possilb=e that .thought units and their relationships can be represented by = space of the homologus maps .this is what i believe you have called=language. she has great examples of blind pe=sons representations of verticals , horizontals stronger than she understa=ds. many many useful but clearly not dispositive exampl=s. Also unclear whether some of her " blind" shared = deficient map from light to image or deficient from image to represenatio= ( sight blind ►. I "smell" elegant theo=ies ahead )::

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Noam Chomsky <=a href="mailto:" target="_blank"> wrote:

Quite a few. Will have to give =t some thought, to winnow it down.

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.comj Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 10:48 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: language of the blind

who else do you respect. ( not limited to field ).=C2 . that we might find each other amusing

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Noam Chomsky <█████████████████>=wrote:

Very good to have a chance to talk today, as always.=C2 And enjoyed the follow-up conversation too. Interesting people= Especially Martin.

The study on acquisition of language by the blind th=t I mentioned is: Barbara Landau and Lila Gleitman, Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child. From a=out 25 years ago. A real breakthrough at the time. There =99s been work since, much of it by Lila Gleitman and her students. L=la, incidentally, is someone you might want to get to know. An old friend, and a really outstanding psycholinguist-cognitive scientist= one of the best.

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Noam

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