I have been reading about language aquisition. Specifically, thinking about nouns and noun phrases. Steven Pinker sez:
… by unconciously labeling all nouns as “N” and all noun phrases as “NP”, the child only has to hear about 25 different kinds of noun phrase and learn the nouns one by one, and the millions of possible [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Nouns and Noun Phrases
Posted in Language on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Storyboarding
Posted in animation on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a sample of my storyboards. I did this for an animation that teaches about bacteria to food service workers.
Reading: The Language Instinct
Posted in Games & Education, Grad School on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Currently, I am trying to read Steven Pinker’s book: The Language Instinct -
The Language Instinct is a book by Steven Pinker, published in 1994. In it, Pinker argues that humans are born with an innate capacity for language. In addition, he deals sympathetically with Noam Chomsky’s claim that all human language shows evidence of a [...]
