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Ways of Looking

Philosophy

Why linguistics

Why linguistics?

What no other species has

Discrete Infinity

Discrete Infinity

Building an Infinite Set of Structures from a Finite Resource

Innateness

Knowing without learning

Not by instinct, but from between the gut and the bones

LinguisticCompetence

Linguistic competence

A first approximation

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A learnability space

What is built where

Hola Galileo

Hola, Gallileo

The big picture and one of the two most complex systems known to science

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Compositionality

As a property unique to human language, not part of any non-human system

Processes4

Processes

Recoverable in competent, not recoverable in incompetent speech – by articulation delays, articulation disorders, phonological disorders

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Possible, difficult and impossible words

And realistic goals

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Teaching, learning, growing words

One word missing, not just in English

What was the last word

Your last word

Packaging the information

variation:change

Change and variation

Speech and language do not stand still

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Discourse, conversation

And the faculty of language

TwoOrThree

Two or three necessities

Without which there could not be either speech or language

WhyWhyWhy

Why? Why? Why?

Questions with answers pointing different ways

Continuity

Continuity

A decline in disorder, more order

RoundedPentagons

Contending perspectives

With respect to speech and language therapy, some very strongly contending with one another

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Evidence in speech and language therapy

As a two way process

Conscience and kindness

Moral imperatives

Kindness, gratitude, conscience, honesty, sincerity, language, and species survival

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