Mark Changizi

And that's the case.

Right. This is a 2006 paper by an American naturalist. So the idea is that we read, we can only read, which is part of what we take to be central to our human nature, even as the ability to be literate, right? I mean, of course, it's not part of our human nature. This is culture which is harnessed. Especially silent reading. Not to mention science.

Right. This is a 2006 paper by an American naturalist. So the idea is that we read, we can only read, which is part of what we take to be central to our human nature, even as the ability to be literate, right? I mean, of course, it's not part of our human nature. This is culture which is harnessed. Especially silent reading. Not to mention science.

Right. This is a 2006 paper by an American naturalist. So the idea is that we read, we can only read, which is part of what we take to be central to our human nature, even as the ability to be literate, right? I mean, of course, it's not part of our human nature. This is culture which is harnessed. Especially silent reading. Not to mention science.

This is a cultural evolutionary process which has harnessed a visual object recognition brain for reading by tricking it, not because we've evolved for it, but instead evolving writing to fit us. Now, the same idea I argued in the next book in Harnessed That spoken language is like this as well.

This is a cultural evolutionary process which has harnessed a visual object recognition brain for reading by tricking it, not because we've evolved for it, but instead evolving writing to fit us. Now, the same idea I argued in the next book in Harnessed That spoken language is like this as well.

This is a cultural evolutionary process which has harnessed a visual object recognition brain for reading by tricking it, not because we've evolved for it, but instead evolving writing to fit us. Now, the same idea I argued in the next book in Harnessed That spoken language is like this as well.

So spoken language, instead of writing evolving to look like nature, it's spoken language evolved to sound like nature, in particular sound like solid object physical events. When there's solid objects... That's a consonant? That's a consonant. Well, a plosive in particular. There's a plosive like puh, duh, kuh. And then you've got fricatives... Well, this doesn't make any sound at all.

So spoken language, instead of writing evolving to look like nature, it's spoken language evolved to sound like nature, in particular sound like solid object physical events. When there's solid objects... That's a consonant? That's a consonant. Well, a plosive in particular. There's a plosive like puh, duh, kuh. And then you've got fricatives... Well, this doesn't make any sound at all.

So spoken language, instead of writing evolving to look like nature, it's spoken language evolved to sound like nature, in particular sound like solid object physical events. When there's solid objects... That's a consonant? That's a consonant. Well, a plosive in particular. There's a plosive like puh, duh, kuh. And then you've got fricatives... Well, this doesn't make any sound at all.

You got sliding sounds. And then you have, when either of those things happen, the things vibrate, they ring. And those are like the sonorants. Sonorants are things that ring, vowels and any kind of like ya and wa and also just A-E-I-O-U. The basic notion of a syllable is a hit in a ring. It's either, you know, sa is a slide and those objects are vibrating or a ba is there's a collision.

You got sliding sounds. And then you have, when either of those things happen, the things vibrate, they ring. And those are like the sonorants. Sonorants are things that ring, vowels and any kind of like ya and wa and also just A-E-I-O-U. The basic notion of a syllable is a hit in a ring. It's either, you know, sa is a slide and those objects are vibrating or a ba is there's a collision.

You got sliding sounds. And then you have, when either of those things happen, the things vibrate, they ring. And those are like the sonorants. Sonorants are things that ring, vowels and any kind of like ya and wa and also just A-E-I-O-U. The basic notion of a syllable is a hit in a ring. It's either, you know, sa is a slide and those objects are vibrating or a ba is there's a collision.

Like a bell. Yeah, it's like a bell. Something hits and they're ringing thereafter. And then this is just – what you can then start working out when I do the book is like, look, there's all these grammars of what solid object events do.

Like a bell. Yeah, it's like a bell. Something hits and they're ringing thereafter. And then this is just – what you can then start working out when I do the book is like, look, there's all these grammars of what solid object events do.

Like a bell. Yeah, it's like a bell. Something hits and they're ringing thereafter. And then this is just – what you can then start working out when I do the book is like, look, there's all these grammars of what solid object events do.

So you can actually work out – they typically are going to start with a consonant or a plosive or a fricative because those are just the – more often with a plosive because that's what starts the event. And it will typically end in certain kinds of ways because that's what physical events – amongst solid objects do.

So you can actually work out – they typically are going to start with a consonant or a plosive or a fricative because those are just the – more often with a plosive because that's what starts the event. And it will typically end in certain kinds of ways because that's what physical events – amongst solid objects do.

So you can actually work out – they typically are going to start with a consonant or a plosive or a fricative because those are just the – more often with a plosive because that's what starts the event. And it will typically end in certain kinds of ways because that's what physical events – amongst solid objects do.

And you can start working out all of these many dozens of kinds of regularities and then ask whether across human languages you find the same morphemic regularities at that level.