This is the first lecture of a two lecture series given by Noam Chomsky (10 and 12 April 2019) at MIT. The second lecture: • Noam Chomsky, Fundamen...
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@englishplusacademy92113 жыл бұрын
A legend in the field of language. It is nice to see him giving live lecture.
@NazriB2 жыл бұрын
Lies again? Nurofen + Aspirin
@mytechid97484 жыл бұрын
Choms' still got it!
@JamesPeach3 жыл бұрын
NVM
@gk4113 жыл бұрын
What is i t!
@doubtingthelimit2 жыл бұрын
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! 😊❤️
@uydfi352 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!
@doubtingthelimit2 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 ❤️
@RobKohr2 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
@czarquetzal83442 жыл бұрын
A very prolific thinker and public intellectual!
@lateefalqasab68644 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this rare masterpiece.
@docnerd45702 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. Such a legend.
@khashayarmotarjemi54423 жыл бұрын
2:17 that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
@CHRISDABAHIA3 жыл бұрын
You've never seen a wave and a smile before?
@khashayarmotarjemi54423 жыл бұрын
It's about the wink -__-
@CHRISDABAHIA3 жыл бұрын
@@khashayarmotarjemi5442 Fair enough 👌🏽
@twelveshepherd93312 жыл бұрын
Ever seen??? Ever in your whole life?
@letssuperfuntime3 жыл бұрын
What a gem this lecture is. Thanks for sharing.
@letssuperfuntime Жыл бұрын
@@victortronin8955 take Ur meds chief
@Risingsun2942 жыл бұрын
Best of the best for this guy..he makes us linguistics so damned proud
@shahedahmed47513 жыл бұрын
Choms' still got the charms!
@farahali5754 Жыл бұрын
بحترم جداااااااا كبار السن في التعليم لا مثيل لهم Youth , his body language is more than mental expressions and thoughts
@moctarbebaha75824 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this.
@deelirious4 жыл бұрын
what a luxury, thanks for sharing
@user-cx5ni7me6l2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload.
@rembautimes88083 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video
@issamrian34944 жыл бұрын
My dear friend Iliass, I dedicate this lecture to you.
@tahiriiliass91774 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much my friend 🙏
@Blancobobea4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing!!!
@easayr52704 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this gem
@serdaracar.official3 жыл бұрын
the king.
@BrenoAguiar973 жыл бұрын
In some places on Earth, we can't even think about having classes with the God Chomsky.
@user-mq1gm9gm7v10 ай бұрын
wow! a legend!
@ghofranemohamed6782 Жыл бұрын
He's genius,😍
@farahali5754 Жыл бұрын
Perfect , A few good men
@aaasthaa2 жыл бұрын
Julia falk Jesperson- notion of structure in mind
@abdulatifhamid10112 жыл бұрын
wow indeed he is a greatest linguist
@navenchang2 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@mr.k9052 жыл бұрын
A master in the field of langue, unfortunately not in the field of speaking.
@eatthecoffee79524 жыл бұрын
thanks for this
@MartinHaumann14 жыл бұрын
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.
@MartinHaumann14 жыл бұрын
@James Just ordered it James. Thank you.
@brownshuri48203 жыл бұрын
Could you share the book name for bio linguistics??
@mgm80753 жыл бұрын
what was the book?
@ianthompson9262 жыл бұрын
What was the boom?
@melodyjang28763 жыл бұрын
I hope there is transcription available. It would be my valuable possession.
@czarquetzal83442 жыл бұрын
Why do you need a transcript? Just listen to him.
@christianhegemann19113 жыл бұрын
The quintessence of all communications is the misunderstanding.
@justbeyourself-gx3nd3 жыл бұрын
thanks a lot!
@TravisRiver3 жыл бұрын
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.
@beahumane2 жыл бұрын
Great👌👌 #beahumane
@jwkelley3 жыл бұрын
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
@jozefsitarcik6293 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
@silasterkelsen53124 жыл бұрын
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.
@emircokekoglu4 жыл бұрын
thank you!
@tarek91333 жыл бұрын
@James thanks a lot James
@mgm80753 жыл бұрын
what did james post?
@user-ii7nr7ls9h3 жыл бұрын
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.
@tongusaphea61562 жыл бұрын
I hope that other video can have subtitle for help person that english not good like me thaks you🥰
@user-op4pl6dw1i2 жыл бұрын
Good morning I have reserch how can I be in contact with you thanks
@yasseralrefaee38184 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@Josephus_vanDenElzen10 ай бұрын
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.
@halfcadence14176 ай бұрын
Conception and expression are not the same thing
@leonsantamaria9845Ай бұрын
What and what.... professor Noam Chomsky....l will understand... you..class...l mad my self.....(Merge...p,q, ws....a,b....👍👋😄
@autentyk57352 жыл бұрын
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.
@lukebradley79842 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).
@dundoderdumme30442 жыл бұрын
49:44 What does he say? It's hard to understand. Chorine language?
@560crude22 жыл бұрын
poor i-language I guess
@vinm3002 жыл бұрын
Play on speed 1.5
@EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture212 жыл бұрын
22:00
@user-tx6et2nu5e9 ай бұрын
That Wink....
@reverie46324 жыл бұрын
what is the book he is referencing to at 1:14:50?
@khrazza4 жыл бұрын
Tell me plz
@ragnarw.eliansson52994 жыл бұрын
@@khrazza ISBN: 978-0395951057
@kieronmcnulty61774 жыл бұрын
I think it is: Memory and the Computational Brain - Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience - C.R. Gallistel and Adam Philip King
@casteretpollux Жыл бұрын
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?
@atheoma9 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’.
@czarquetzal83446 ай бұрын
Read poetry. Is the language of poetry serves to communicate?
@emiliogonzalez1412 Жыл бұрын
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.
@czarquetzal83445 ай бұрын
I like the philosophical foundation of his linguistics - Essentialism. It retains something that cannot be fully grasped by empirical science
@gregpringle12993 жыл бұрын
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?
@inef852 жыл бұрын
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
@saleh99463 жыл бұрын
The first time I see vowels and diphthongs alive
@saleh99463 жыл бұрын
I used to hear and read them in written
@linguistics1224 Жыл бұрын
What is this about?
@dyssakis Жыл бұрын
It's sad that the recording sucks so much
@Lokitofrances2 жыл бұрын
Hello everyone! Could someone translate these lectures into Spanish? I'm very interested, but I don't understand any English. Thanks
@two_kopecks Жыл бұрын
16
@justinjozokos16993 жыл бұрын
If you watch at 1.5 speed, he talks about as fast as a normal person. You're welcome
@mathman21703 жыл бұрын
I tried "2x" but found 1.5 to be optimal. LOL
@skynut3 жыл бұрын
Thxs...this suggestion is a gem
@zlatashkolnaya43783 жыл бұрын
LOL, I actually like his natural speed, it's relaxing
@scottcampbell7384Ай бұрын
Mental giant, moral fool. I can still see him singing with Hugo Chavez before the demise of Venezuela. After the demise was well underway, Noam tried to back pedal with the typical "nobody ever does socialism right" lame excuse. PS_ I adore the comments...I haven't seen this much fawning since Bambi was released by Walt Disney studious in 1942.
@ghirardellichocolate2013 жыл бұрын
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.
@chickenfeed62723 жыл бұрын
SNORE
@thomsnvykovski61352 жыл бұрын
based
@noresponse10682 жыл бұрын
He still alive?
@chuckbowie58333 жыл бұрын
Interesting that, after all these years, this guy a) keeps misquoting Saussure and b) keeps conflating explanation with arbitrary reduction. Shame.
@dresdenliam2 жыл бұрын
Let's go Brandon
@rappakalja52952 жыл бұрын
Parrot
@DS-yg4qs3 жыл бұрын
Starts to talk about language... there he goes with Turing and Godel. No no no... language is about art, not math.
@Crowdle2 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.
@brandgardner2114 жыл бұрын
"...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?
@kieronmcnulty61774 жыл бұрын
No. It's because nature is difficult to understand.
@brandgardner2114 жыл бұрын
And it becomes even harder to understand when you approach it with all sorts of dogmatic assumptions.
@kieronmcnulty61774 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?
@brandgardner2114 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.
@kieronmcnulty61774 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.
@brandgardner2114 жыл бұрын
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.
@Laocoon28311 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.
@czarquetzal83446 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..