Animal Quote by Noam Chomsky

I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's…

— Noam Chomsky

Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe…

— Noam Chomsky

“Finally, the Pirahã language is notoriously difficult because it lacks things that many other languages have, especially in the way that it puts sentences…

— Daniel L. Everett

“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings…

— John Gray

“Each species of intelligent life in the galaxy learned to limit its perceptions of the world it inhabited in order to preserve itself from…

— Sheila Finch

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.

— Phil Borges

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

— Garth Stein

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language…

— Peter Farb