Discovering the Human Language: Colorless Green Ideas

…

…use speech sounds, such as clicks, in place of words. Noam Chomsky explores the question of what occurs in the human brain that allows people around the world to know how to use language. He asserts that humans are the only species to use syntax. The great achievement of language is that we can think in abstractions, that we can say anything we can think, and that only humans can express new things through language.