What came first...

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

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What came first, the word or the ability to produce and/or comprehend it?

I’m studying cognitive processes so they say we’re hard wired to do language … written/read included … as evidenced by double dissociation revealed in damaged brain studies.

“Euthyphro”-type Dilemma of Language Ability and Learning

I want to keep this as short, sweet, and simple as I can, so here’s the Euthyphro-type dilemma up front… but we will return to it below: Does what is encoded (the pious/good) get our attention, or is it that what we attend to (the loved/valued) gets encoded? This very condensed post basically shows we are hardwired for language/signal ability and learning in an irreducibly complex and very specified way. I inferred it from what I gleaned from chapter 9, Language, from Radvansky and Ashcraft’s “C…