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tinuous string that constitutes the chromosomes.. Brain and Intelligence ? We are not certain whether man39。 any large destruction of this area results in the loss of the capacity for meaningful speech but not the loss of sound production. 。s area, lower down at the back of the left frontal lobe, appears to involve functions of articulation, vocabulary, inflection, and word sequence. Wernicke39。language39。Chapter 10 Language Instinct Saussure’s Langue amp。ller. Er ist rot. Wordforword translation in English I have a pen. He is red. Observation I asked what the number of students in the class was. I inquired what the number of students in the class was. I asked the number of students in the class. I inquired the number of students in the class. The syntactic form of a lexical item is selfgoverned. It makes no reference to its semantic information. Autonomous Syntax Principle No syntactic rule can make reference to pragmatic, phonological, or semantic information. Chomsky (1977) Observation The girls left. The fog left. * The fog went away. The train left. The mail left. “To leave” refers to a movement routinely controlled by human beings. The semantic structure of a lexical item is selfgoverned. It makes no reference to its syntactic features. Observation What time is it in the kitchen? I cut all the flagstones. What does the clock in the kitchen say? I cut all the grass around the flagstones The pragmatic inference is selfgoverned. It makes no reference to both the syntactic and semantic structures. Each linguistic module is governed by its particular set of general principles. The superficial plexity of language is a consequ