Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On Michael Tomasello's "Language Is Not an Instinct" (1995) and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2003). With guest Christopher Heath.
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| 0:16.4 | You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point |
| 0:19.9 | said I'm doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:23.0 | Our question for episode 323 is something like how do children acquire language |
| 0:28.1 | and re-read chapters 1, 2, 8, and 9 and Michael Thomas-Cellos constructing a language, |
| 0:32.8 | a usage-based theory of language acquisition from 2003. His 1995 article, Language is not |
| 0:38.5 | an instinct, as well as the Stanford Encyclopedia Philosophy article, Inatis and Language. |
| 0:43.6 | For more information, please see partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:46.6 | This is Mark Lins and Myr, directing the attention of my various cons specifics |
| 0:50.9 | in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:52.4 | This is Seth Paskin in Anguila, British Virgin Islands. |
| 0:56.8 | This is Wes Allen pointing at you from Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:01.2 | This is Dylan Casey sharing basic cognitive resources with many of you in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:08.4 | And this is Chris Heath, gesturing at my coffee on the table from Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:15.4 | Welcome back, Chris. |
| 1:16.7 | You're on our Vickinstein on certainty episode. |
| 1:20.5 | Wes had recommended Thomas-Cellos and I'm like, I think Chris brought up Thomas-Cellos. |
| 1:25.6 | And in fact, I got Chris as my ringer because I was going to take my vacation. |
| 1:29.3 | But then, since Dylan couldn't make it the day that I couldn't make it, |
| 1:33.2 | the whole group took a vacation, basically, as people know, since you just heard |
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