10-2e Languages are theories about the world and enmeshed in assumptions.
10-2e0 Languages are theories. The vocabulary and grammar embody substantial assertions about the world.
10-2d The medium of expression, language, can also improve indefinitely
10-2f2 The theory of the evolution of language must take culture into account
10-2f1 Chomsky’s UG approach only looks at a subset (syntax) of a subset (language) of the whole (communication system — ‘the gestalt’). Syntax is only secondary to conversation.
10-2d1d Humans are distinguished because of the syntax of their DNA (genomes)
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- Language would have to evolve along with the adaptations. That’s what happened in the biosphere before that jump to universality that settled on the DNA genetic code (life)
- The genetic code as a language for specifying organisms displays phenomenal reach, but we don’t have an explanation for its universality. We do not yet understand the nature of the universality of the DNA replication system.develop