Sounds Like -- Chomsky
(Posted by mordaxus)
The New Scientist reports that "Charades reveals a universal sentence structure."
Susan Golden-Meadow, a linguistic psychologist at the University of Chicago, led a team that found that speakers of most languages use the same simple sentence structure when miming, regardless of the structure of the language they speak. A demonstration movie is here.
That structure is postfix notation -- subject, object, verb. For example, mice cheese eat.
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Er, I think you mean Goldin-Meadow?
I don't see anything actually revealed. The video just shows one guy watching a video of a girl putting on a hat before he charades the same thing.
Posted by: Davi Ottenheimer | July 2, 2008 8:32 PM