Re: cognitive != observable? (project three)

"Glen M. Sizemore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> PC: Perhaps I should emphasize more that the stratagy is to
> create a platform on which we can *start* evolving. Even a
> baby does not know its references when it *starts* to babble.
> 
> GS: You know, I wonder if the way others react to the babbling makes a
> difference. You suppose anyone ever proposed that babbling gets acted upon
> by a selective mechanism? Sheesh. Good thinking, though, even if you are 50
> years late.
> 
> G.
> 

I do believe that Pinker is in substantive agreement with you here ...
"... by 10 months they are no longer universal phoneticians but have
turned into their parents; they do not distinquish Czech or Inslekampx
phonemes unless they are Czech or Inslekampx babies ... they must be
sorting the sounds directly, somehow tuning their speech analysis
module to deliver the phonemes used in their language. The module can
then serve as a front end of the system that learns words and grammar
..."