Language

FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

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Children learn language from the evidence they encounter. They can acquire any language, English, Tamil, Arabic or any human language they encounter. The grammatical sentences that the children acquire are positive evidences. Explanations, corrections of wrong sequences, and ungrammatical sentences are negative evidences. The universal grammar theory claims that evidence other than positive evidence cannot play a critical role. That is, […]

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LANGUAGE AND THE MIND

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Language is a creation of the mind. This mental capacity makes one human. Linguistic theory aims to understand this mental capacity. The questions that arise are, ‘what is the knowledge of language?’ and ‘how is the mind structured to acquire knowledge of language?’. We cannot directly examine the mind so we need to find the indirect

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What is Language?

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Language is a set of symbols being used mainly for communication. The symbols may be spoken or written. Language is an aspect of human behavior. In written form it is a long-term record of knowledge from one generation to the next while in spoken form it is a means of communication. Language is the key

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INTRODUCTION TO TAMIL LANGUAGE

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Tamil is one of the classical languages spoken by more than 77 million people across the world. Tamil language is a member of the south Dravidian family. It is one of the most ancient languages still spoken in the world. It is written in south Brahmi script. Tamil has 12 vowels and 18 consonants. Tamil

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WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE OF COMPUTER?

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As computer is an electronic machine, it can feel only electricity. It cannot understand human languages. So computer can understand a language which is directly related to electricity. So which language the computer can understand? The answer is binary language or machine language. The binary language consists of only two numbers 0 and 1 where 0 represent low voltage and 1 represent high voltage. New words can

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