Re: unnatural languages

On 12 Mar 2007 15:02:57 -0400, Herman Rubin
<hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:et4851$2oro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

In article <1173718375.324131.311620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

Human infants are language-acquisition-machines, and their internal
equipment is attuned to certain types of input data -- namely, human
language.

They are knowledge acquisition machines, and there is no
evidence whatever that they are attuned to the various
types of human languages more than others.

There is no evidence that they are attuned to any linguistic
data *except* natural human language.

[...]

Brian
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