Define the following key terms in your own words. A good definition consists of

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Define the following key terms in your own words. A good definition consists of minimally two things: definition & examples (from the book "the language Instinct nby Steven Pinker and/or your own). Sometimes, instead of examples, background information might be more appropriate. For people's names, describe briefly who they are and why they are included in the discussion.

The numbers indicate page & paragraph numbers.

2-4: Tower of Babel

3-2: aphasia

6-3: Charles Darwin

7-1: an instinctive tendency to acquire and art

8-3: Noam Chomsky

9-1: Universal Grammar

Explanation / Answer

Tower of Babel: the Tower of Babel is one of the origin myths that would be exPlaining the reason of people speaking in different languages. This is a story which states that united humanity had arrived to the land of Shinar after experiencing a great flood. Here, they built cities as well as a tower by which they could reach heaven. And god counfounded their speech so that people would not be able to understand one another and be scattered in the world. aphasia: this is the inability of a person in comprehension and formulation of language as there would be damage to specific regions in the brain. This damage occurs as a result of a damage to the cerebral cortex or as a result of a trauma in the head. Charles Darwin: Charles Darwin was a geologist and a biologist who has been known to make one of the major contributions to evolution. He wrote a book on the origin of species and explained the diversity of life. an instinctive tendency to acquire an art: this was first articulated by Darwin who stated that language is acquired as an instinct. This is the instinctive ability to speak or understand. Language occurs as unique between all the people and this is different as the child would be developing in different manners so that a child would develop language spontaneously.

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