Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Chapter 4, Tomasello

I found Tomasello's discussion on language to be interesting. Perhaps the most thought-provoking part was the small differences between humans and non-humans. The fact that two-year-old children could create and understand interactions that were not replicable by the non-human subjects is almost unbelievable, given that there is not a large genetic difference. I am curious regarding further development processes, and the point at which humans can learn to interact with multiple people at once, as well as how they learn social behaviors in such instances.

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