It discusses the myth of the "top-down" theory during an evaluation of Raj Reddy's "Hearsay" experiment and notes that Allan Bloom's work on the difference between Chinese and American comprehension of the same stories can be favorably compared with the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax.
It discusses the myth of the "top-down" theory during an evaluation of Raj Reddy's "Hearsay" experiment and notes that Allan Bloom's work on the difference between Chinese and American comprehension of the same stories can be favorably compared with the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax." Other chapters include "The Big Bang" which discusses Broca's research and Koko's [*] mastery of ASL. Arguing for the existence of a grammar gene, it begins with a consideration of The Descent of Man and compares the title entity with web spinning in spiders and sonar in bats. FTP identify this book subtitled, "How the Mind Creates Language," a work by Stephen Pinker.
It discusses the myth of the "top-down" theory during an evaluation of Raj Reddy's "Hearsay" experiment and notes that Allan Bloom's work on the difference between Chinese and American comprehension of the same stories can be favorably compared with the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax.
{The Language Instinct}