Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different
has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep
philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it
implies a fundamental commonality--and thus mutual
intelligibility--of human thought.We are now on the verge of
solving this problem. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by
the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers
have found that the similarities among languages are more profound
than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely
incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except
for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules
and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of
the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we
can understand the fundamental structure of all human language.
This is a landmark breakthrough both within linguistics, which will
herewith finally become a full-fledged science, and in our
understanding of the human mind.
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