On Language Acquisition..

I have been reading about language acquisition and Chomsky's opinion based on Poverty of Linguistic Stimulus and how purely inductive generalisation about sentence structures can lead is NOT present in children.

For example, in case of children, while they are learning 'Wh-' questions, there are some structres which can be concluded as acceptable if the child merely relies on generalisation of whatever linguistic data he hears. So, Chomsky says that the child has some innate knowledge about which structures are acceptable and which are not. Or, his Hypothesis space of potentials grammars is already constrained when he starts learning. But Why? and How?

Well, if we assume that the child is a blank slate when he is born (though many would not accept that) then , this Hypothesis space is constrained only due to the experiences which he has since birth. This experiences can have as basic origin as physical force of 'gravity'. Hence, the physical world pre-conditions the mind of a child before it's language acquisition kicks in and hence, Constricting it's Grammar Hypothesis space.

How does that sound??

Many things yet nothing to do

Hi,
This is a post just to remind me how dreadful are the days when you have many things to do but are not able to do anything.. Today was a very frustrating day for me as I was not able to do anything useful or NEW ..

I have, say 10 works to do and I am stuck somewhere or other in all of them .. And I try to convince my heart that this is just a pause and not a dead end..

Well, I just can't understand my situation right now .. Upon thinking closely, I am like losing the FEEL of the thing which I am already doing..

I feel I have been doing badly this sem and just want my fate to improve..

And over that, I am stuck in the same old trap of sitcoms and TV series ..and it's not at all fulfilling..

Shit!!

I am writing to express my guilt for what I have been doing (or not doing) lately and people, please pay for me..

PS : Sorry to see my insecure side..