Comments on: Artificial-language video game provides evidence for Chomsky’s ‘universal grammar’ hypothesis http://www.kurzweilai.net/artificial-language-video-game-provides-evidence-for-chomskys-universal-grammar-hypothesis Accelerating Intelligence Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: anon http://www.kurzweilai.net/artificial-language-video-game-provides-evidence-for-chomskys-universal-grammar-hypothesis/comment-page-1#comment-103141 anon Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:40:34 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=118571#comment-103141 I was thinking that, I guess as it says since some languages have adjectives before nouns and some have numbers after nouns but no language has both it's not hard to imagine how you could control for their previous language. Though I'm a laymen so I'm just guessing. 100 participants involved. Involved 100 participants. Participants100 involved. Involved patricipants 100. It doesn't sound right to me anyway. I was thinking that, I guess as it says since some languages have adjectives before nouns and some have numbers after nouns but no language has both it’s not hard to imagine how you could control for their previous language. Though I’m a laymen so I’m just guessing.

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Involved patricipants 100. It doesn’t sound right to me anyway.

]]> By: Mind.matriX http://www.kurzweilai.net/artificial-language-video-game-provides-evidence-for-chomskys-universal-grammar-hypothesis/comment-page-1#comment-3416 Mind.matriX Tue, 17 May 2011 00:14:42 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=118571#comment-3416 I wonder if they took into account the possibility that the reason why they were able to learn some languages more easily than others was because they had syntaxes similar to languages they already knew? It would probably be easier to learn a new language if it's similar to the languages you already know. I wonder if they took into account the possibility that the reason why they were able to learn some languages more easily than others was because they had syntaxes similar to languages they already knew? It would probably be easier to learn a new language if it’s similar to the languages you already know.

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