Please see ling.nthu.edu.tw/chomsky2010/timetable.html
I would like to see him.
Presumably he’ll speak in English. It would be nice if NTHU was sufficiently worldly to describe the subject of his talk in English. Can someone explain?
Better than Bob Dylan!
Well, nearly…
Maybe Ironlady can double check this, but if my Chinese is right, it’s going to be “Chomsky Sings Bob Dylan” from August 9th to August 10th.
Not many people can play for 24 hours these days. This will definitely be more than just a “Greatest Hits” concert. 
Anyone know who he’s bringin’ with him?
[quote=“zender”]Maybe Ironlady can double check this, but if my Chinese is right, it’s going to be “Chomsky Sings Bob Dylan” from August 9th to August 10th.
Not many people can play for 24 hours these days. This will definitely be more than just a “Greatest Hits” concert.
Anyone know who he’s bringin’ with him?[/quote]
Hmm, my read on it was that he’ll be doing a 24-hour version of Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat, but I could be mistaken.
I heard he’s bringing a Ringo-style All Star backing band consisting of all the contributors to The Huffington Post…
Poverty of Stimulus: The Unfinished Business
He might be talking Paul Krugman’s line. Or else how the deficit hawks have derailed the recovery.
[quote=“Dr. McCoy”]Poverty of Stimulus: The Unfinished Business
He might be talking Paul Krugman’s line. Or else how the deficit hawks have derailed the recovery.[/quote]
I know a lot of Dylan tunes, but this one’s new to me
[quote]The core problem of the theory of language is to discover the mechanisms that enter into what Wilhelm von Humboldt called “the infinite use of finite means.” New understanding in the theory of computability made it possible to undertake that task systematically in the 1950s. It quickly became evident how little was understood.
Problems of “poverty of stimulus” were ubiquitous : cases of a substantial gap between the data available and what is known by the speaker, even a young child. A major thrust of linguistic theory since has been to discover principles to overcome the gap. Within the biolinguistic framework that began to take shape at the same time, one central goal is to reduce assumptions about genetic endowment (“universal grammar,” in technical terms) to the operation of principles of greater generality, in the best case laws of nature. Considerable progress has been made, but even for some of the simplest and most elementary cases discussed 50 years ago, explanations that have been commonly accepted rely on dubious assumptions. Some of this “unfinished business” is what I intend to discuss, suggesting possible solutions – which, as is so often the
case, open new challenges.[/quote]
You need to hear it with the background singers and the harmonica.
The first lecture is on the United Nations.
The second deals with technical aspects of linguistics and so would likely not be of general interest.
I really wish I could hear what he has to say.
I really wish I could understand what he has to say.
I really wish I could understand what he has to say.[/quote]
I think they’ll have them headphones like at the UN.
I’m sure Rhodesian translation will be available for non-English speakers like yourself.
I really wish I could understand what he has to say.[/quote]
He’s considered quite the thinker when it comes to language aquisition. I’ve read of a lot of his stuff, but not enough. He’s pretty out front, or avant garde, because of his interest in the physical mechanics of this metaphysical process–and this is what fascinates me, too. I did research papers on this more than 10 years ago as an undergrad, and two years ago as a grad student and so MUCH has been learned and so much progress has been made. Back in undergrad school, about the only things to be found were very old, some a couple hundred years ago, doctor reports of head wound victims who all had similar speach problems and similar wounds. Now, we’ve done extensive brain mapping and all kinds of targeted language specific research. We have tools to observe brain activity without harming the brain and it’s all just too cool.
[quote=“the chief”]
I think they’ll have them headphones like at the UN.
I’m sure Rhodesian translation will be available for non-English speakers like yourself.[/quote]
Even if it was translated into Shona, I still wouldn’t have an inkling of what he’s on about.
Not to mention head wound victims who forgot how to spell “speech”.
:roflmao:
Yeah, yeah. Aye toalded yuh, nevar truhst enii won whoo cahn ohnlie spel uh wyrd wuhn whey.
He’ll probably say:
1-Capitalism is evil
2-Burn all the Gucci stuff
Both will go down very well in Taiwan.
[quote=“enzo+”]He’ll probably say:
1-Capitalism is evil
2-Burn all the Gucci stuff
Both will go down very well in Taiwan.[/quote]
Actually, I think that what will infuriate local audiences the most is his talking about language universlas and common capacity for language learning. Good heaven’s, everyone knows only Chinese people can speak Chinese, even if they recieve very little input in this language and spend their time in an English speaking environment. I mean, it’s in their genes. That’s why atoga can never speak Chinese as well as they do. 
sigh