What do all languages have in common? - Cameron Morin 

Oh that's just TED.....he wants to rewire your brain.

I feel like that with lots of Ted-Ed vids. I wish they slowed it down a bit and explained things a bit more. I would actually watch more if they had the same content but in a longer slower format like infographics style. They have clearly done the research already so I wish they didn't just skim over it

It might be the music

yeah the pacing in this one is all off.

because your kid is still waiting for you at the sport field after the training but instead you are watching TED videos.

isn't japanese have no swear words or something? i don't have a reliable source but i heard it multiple times

@@beytullahberk3632 Kusoooooo

Does gibberish have swear words¿¿¿¿¿???

Just asking ;)

@@denissetiawan3645 bakayaro means "you fools", that's not a swear word

It got pretty tiresome after awhile.

Theodore

Yes

Should be "yes" instead of "All of them"

No it should be- Ted Ed: yes.

👁👄👁

True.

I can confirm in my case.....It's a true story 👁👄👁

truee

*Heist

@@ruturajpokemon1 🏆

Ur pfp says it all

@@ruturajpokemon1 **Heisenberg

And all the written languages too

@@lululipes4382 Technically writing isn't language, it's just a medium through which it is expressed.

and how about programming languages?

You can say all are artificial

Sign language isn't a language, it's a type of languages. Different sign languages exist, sign language families exist, and they form naturally and work organically just as with other languages.

lol how was the theory wrong?

Mas você não acredita na possibilidade de existirem princípios comuns a todas as línguas? Como todas terem sujeito, verbo, adjuntos, metáforas, ideofones, etc?

​​​@@creemyiceNo one has been able to agree on what constitutes a universal rule. In the 1990s, Chomsky had to throw out almost every single proposal for universal rules and keep only one, which he called Merge (the video says recursion, but Merge is an operation that needs to be applied recursively). Still, Chomsky's latest theory rests on some suspicious assumptions like there being a separate lexicon (akin to a dictionary list of words) on which Merge operates to produce structured sentences. This simplistic view of the lexicon as essentially a list of entries like on a digital dictionary (Chomsky was very influenced by 1950s computer science) is not very well supported by psycholinguistic and cognitive neuroscience studies, nor is it widely accepted in linguistics itself (other theories such as Construction Grammar, Cognitive Grammar, and Systemic Functional Grammar pose some powerful arguments for alternative views). My personal opinion is that there are some things that are universal to all languages, but they are not as Chomsky imagines them to be. At the same time, there are also many things that make each language, or even each person's understanding of their own language, different and unique.

@@lcsgabriel987 isso é vdd, eu acho que você esta certo

I'll definitely take a listen...

thank you for sharing!! i would love to chat with you about what im working on comuno.org or my linguistics research ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZkgXZP--8TE.html www.researchgate.net/publication/322063405_German_Echoes_in_American_English_How_New-dialect_Formation_Triggered_the_Northern_Cities_Shift

I happened to pick up Dan’s (I believe latest) book a year or so ago in a bookstore, and I was so excited because I knew what he was famous for! Much to my shock, the first few pages were absolute bunk. Bluster and claims that so blatantly contradicted reality, I at times thought he was joking. It taught me that the quality of past work can’t be a reliable indicator of later work.

* Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes

Great, thanks for your recommendation!

You're a man of culture

Anert Moodie numbers 🤣😂

Me: Alphabets

us linguists actually have a more difficult time defining words than you'd think 😂

Well not for all but true

Go to Grammarly.com and download today.

Booooooo

Lol

I've been getting so many grammarly adds lately lol

omg, for real!

Well, they're aesthetically pleasing, but they're making the viewer nervous. It's too fast-paced and I don't remember anything.

Ikr so much effort given

you have three comments on this channel already

@@xoxodelphi Yeah 😅 What can I say, I like the channel!

This is my favourite comment

They are both Indo-European languages

Watching this while drunk. Thought the playback speed is 2x. Slept after watching this. Woke up just now. Happy 2020 @jive

Music is not a language... Don't be fooled by the phrase "Music is the universal language", because it's not even a language. Period.

@@TheIsraelMendoza what is the definition of a language

@@TheIsraelMendoza I'd say that you must be fun at parties, but even that quip would never describe how absolutely dry and humourless your comment was

kingster20 **Ludwig Wittgenstein has entered the chat**

I can kinda see it

how's your name pronounced?

@@juanvaldivia8001 it's a vietnamese name. Just copy my name and use google translator and you should get it right.

@Phương Nguyễn lol. Square boobs

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Even tho, he was wrong, he was very smart.

​@@avivastudios2311 Chomsky is a charlatan disguised as an expert corrupting the minds of people.

Wow so deeeep.

Right, if Plutarch says it he's an emminence but if I set fire to people's heads then I am called a psycho...

I know you're the chosen undead

Verty Nobody said it was supposed to be deep, but I’d bet you probably didn’t spend more time than it took to comprehend the words you read to make your judgement of its value

I always hear this at the end of scishow tangent episodes, cool to finally know who said the quote :'D

gaming 4 fun WHHY I WAS ABOUT TO COMMENT THIS WAAAAA

@@_.emberrr lol get rekt (sry :( )

Language is language!

And usually end with an *an* or *ian*

@@LanieMae floor is floor

It was not a wrong idea, it was just that he was wrong, but that was pretty useful at the end!

but the thing with science is that it is dynamic and open to changes through peer-reviewed claims. hence i think science is right until proven incorrect not incorrect until proven right

Lol

Weird...

that's true was thinking about how some languages sound and look familiar in terms of it sounding and looking like english lol it's actually a bit weird

Maybe all girls think about same thing at same time.

I got the notification for this video as I was reading about language acquisition for my linguistics class. Kinda creepy how well-timed it was.

Thank you! He talked so fast that I was confused, I didn't know if I had understood it right lol

3. The way he was proved wrong was useful for further understanding of language.

Technically it wasn’t proven wrong, just that there is no possible way to prove it true (meaning it’s unfalsifiable and therefore just a hypothesis and not a true theory).

@@laprankster3264 But that's just a theory, a linguistic theory.

Communication is a natural attribute? Does languages appear out of nothing? Maybe you are right and languages don have nothing in common. But the fact that we as humans are able to replicate the structures of languages (in the form of grammar) is what make UG so important. Generative syntax is just a tool that allows us to analyze the deep meaning in the structures and how it's parts are related. The universal grammar is still valid. The case with the Pirahã is that they don't have pass tenses. Their syntax don't have words to structure past events. But they have recursion, they can codify speaking in whistlings, hums, shouts or music. The Pirahã don't have a genesis myth so it can be a evolutionary asset to loose the recursion from the past. They also don't have words to express color or number. This aspects make Pirahã the perfect example for neglecting the case for universal grammar. We shouldn't invalidated because of the Pirahã. We should question why the Pirahã have a distinctive evolutionary path than the others languages for example they have loanwords and I think that the Pirahã case is just an escuse to falsify the generative syntax and universal grammar. But we can say strongly that universal grammar is still valid and a fundamental concept of linguistics.

Chemistry started off with alchemy. Even if an idea is fundamentally wrong, anything it leads to coming after it that is true is still formed by the inital wrong assumption

@@freyja3153 that doesnt even make sense, the other dude was right, chomsky deserves credit for his work and effort in the field. What you just said is non sense and im sure chomsky would agree with me.

Even Einstein was wrong once, but his mistake paved the way for many other discoveries and inventions. Similarly, Chomsky's "universal" grammar lead to linguistic research in areas hitherto unexplored

Chomsky made testable predictions with his theories and changed them as new evidence came in. Freud made random theories with no testable predictions and twisted every bit of data he got from therapy sessions to fit his theories, no matter how tenuous his connections were. I think there's a huge difference between the two of them (one was a hack, and one actually advanced his field).

@@sparshjohri1109 You're correct. I agree with you. My comparison wasn't good.

Yes

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Awww yes that's so true

Yes

Not just humans also animals :)

Paradox created

They all convey information in the most effective way possible, that's what every language has in common. As precisely as possible, as shortly as possible, so long as it's intelligible to the listener.

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My brain hurts

The first rule of languages is that you don't talk about languages

Yeah I nearly shat myself when I saw that

You should revive irish

great observation. And this is what makes it dipping into pseudoscientific territories. You always try to falsify phenomenon, not the other way around.

It’s extremely hard to prove anything is universal, maybe even impossible. Which would make UG unfalsifiable, aka unscientific. So we whittle away at it, to find the most meaningful universality. Recursion may or may not be it, depending on which analysis of Pirahã you subscribe to.

It's hilarious because all words (including ''grammar') have no absolute meaning. 'Words' are only sounds or images that trigger memories of similar sounds and images in the mind. 'Language' is merely the connections between our memories, so everything is language. Everything is symbolic. There are no true rules whatsoever in language. Even a grunt is communication.

Excellent point!

Actually is the other way around...

Big brother's watching u.

In this case the animations and background sound effects are distracting. The short time the sentence examples were displayed was annoying.

@@Foersom_ The sudden and rapid color change hurts my eyes also. The visuals are stunning as always, but yeah, it's really distracting. Also, sometimes it was hard to make connections between the visuals and what the script was trying to say.

I just Googled Noam Chomsky a week ago, then this clip showed up. CREEPY

I can figure out it when i hear that. 😬

@@wish-keeper Doesn't stop the grammar nazi's though. While also making grammar mistakes while insulting you.

You're not bilingual... in Kannada language 'neewu' means you're and 'nee' means you so it's not that difficult to distinguish

Only in you're dialect. This is a joke don't kill me I do know the difference between your and you're.

@@VenomousCompany doesn't matter. It's not hard to use the correct form and not erode the language.

Please Thank you Excuse me Sorry The four main words/phrases

Christopher Marley Some languages don’t have those words. If you want to express that sentiment, you have to be more specific

Bingo

Sounds awfully familiar

That's the ultimate strategy every cult leader uses

yeah I'm more or less familiar with Chomsky's political works I never knew he was a linguist

Okay dwight

That's really interesting

Sounds great

And mostly words for a daily use

Or 26 letters (English)

O N Sign language

Alexander Weaver well, I guess i played myself. I edited the comment now

@@alexanderweaver6047 what did he say originally?

Caleb Taylor I said “my answer: speaking”

Whimsical Kids You can also communicate pretty strongly by punching someone in the face. He said all languages have communication in common, not that all communication is language

And watch this

I'd argue that's a definition of language in and of itself, so... yeah.

Chomsky proposes that the main function of languages is not to communicate, because the vast majority of our thoughts never surfaces to communication. Languages are for connecting interfaces of cognition, forming thoughts in the process.

Well, a chimpanzee can communicate with sign language?

Well not all humans are common 😶

Computers lol

Parrots: hold my beer

I am not a human. Yet.

Thanks to conjunctions (and, so, but), sentences can be infinite.

Same. I love this channel, their (normally) lovely animations, and this particular subject matter; but I found the style of this video incredibly distracting, and I had trouble absorbing what they were saying as a result of it. I had to stop the video several times just to give my overloaded senses a break. I feel like this video needs a seizure warning at the beginning.

Right! Grammar is very useful I’m learning english and i can say that without grammar i hadn’t do anything.

Jonathan Espinal lol

Unless you operate a complaint department.

They don't exist in Arabic...

Nor in Thai: ไม่ (máì)

Pengu oh,I didn’t know this.😅

"tidak" or "bukan" in Malay; "la" in Arabic; "iie" in Japanese (though they also has the "-nai" suffix for negation).

Not in our case. In Armenian, it is usually "ch'/չ". "Ch'e/չէ" means "no" ( "voch'/ոչ" also means "no"), and "ch'/չ" is used as "not". "I am not going" would be "Yes ch'em gnum/Ես չեմ գնում".

True cuz we keep changing are language

Beat TS sorry lol

I saw this and got so exited that Irish finally got recognized!! I saw leithreas for a split second and had to rewind!

I saw it too and damn they NEED THAT RAISE

because all human languages including sign language is carried out in time and therefore linear. And he is interested in human languages

​@@setyourhandleif 1, ok if we say that, then linearity is a general attribute Chomsky was looking for. 2, you are talking about spoken languages. you are right that we are living in a temporal universe so when we speak our speech has temporal nature. but if we are talking about languages which are represented by symbols, then we can use symbols which have "rotational symmetry" (more precisely: the sentences have no starting and ending points) so the representation doesn't necessarily have order and linearity. I refer to the movie Arrival again. there the creatures used a language which had sentences with circular structures. however, the temporal dimension and the linguistic linearity is still interconnected, but on a deeper level (and this was the message of the movie). our languages always represent the logic of our world. why? because they are formed by this logic and formed to express this logic. time is a fundamental element of all languages. time, as a mental construct, represents the causal relationship and ordering among events. therefore not only cognition and communication (verbal) is temporal due to the fact that cognition and communication happen in a temporal physical world, but even the logic of all languages reflect this nature. I know it will seem a bit distant analogy (and a very trivial one, but this is why it's elementary and fundamental), but it's like this: all languages EXIST due to the fact that the world and universe (in which the speakers of these languages exist) does EXIST. so existence is like temporality: it is generated into the basic structure of the languages. conclusion: I do believe that in this universe (where certainly all living and conscious creature experience time and are constrained by time) only linear languages can exist.

Ha! Jokes on you I use sign language in Minecraft!

@@OscarButDumb Enchantment Table?

@@OscarButDumb it is not spoken. You didn't understand that properly

You morron, know nothing about languages if you think so. FYI: "sign language" is not a language, but a type of language and there are lots of them. Try not to make such an uneducated and potentially rude statement next time.

@@tablet6655 *I t ' s a j o k e*

how about blind people from born?

Ikr

That's a really sad truth actually

As an English speaker I can say with confidence it's not.

It's really not but I can confirm some people here would say so...

Do indians speak English?

That is both true and misleading. In india, English is a secondary language and is mostly learnt through formal education. So knowing English means having had formal education and also knowing more than one language, hence people consider English speakers to be a sign of intelligence (more accurately, a sign of "education")