The conceptual formation in human mind is an independent entity.
It is a myth that the everyone has an ability to converse with the world.
It is not mandatory.
It can just be our imagination.
Chomsky thought about the way it is formed and found answer in this research.
The most important of this is, once this ability in a child's mind transforms into language, it will not increase or progress further.
It is already developed fully.
Everyone in this world have the same ability of language.
For example, it is assumed that the language in Africa was born when genetic mutation occured in somebody's brain thousands of years ago.
It is not an assumption, it is a fact.
The same language ability exists even today.
When you compare the linguistic capabilities with any native civilization with the most civilized society,
there is no difference in concept formation.
There is no evolution.
The difference may be in its usage.
The purpose and method of language usage might be different between these two,
But the linguistic capability is same in everybody.
Suppose a person who grew up in a remote island comes here,
and someone from here goes there,
the ability to use the language in both will be same.
Many people say that they have a lot to learn.
When it comes to language, that is not possible.
You just learn it once.
This ability forms once in equal measures in all human beings.
He and is followers explain the concept behind this.
He calls it "Merge".
Merge is the ability to combine unrelated experiences.
In concept formation, we combine two different experiences and form a new one.
In this new concept, the resources used may or may not exist.
Or, only some of it might have been retained..
Merging or computational capability is one of the main characteristics of a human brain.
Even today humans combine their experiences to form concepts while using the language.
There is no direct relation between the concept formation and my talk.
My talk is externalization.
The entity of concept formation channelizes in two types.
One is the Logical form.
Logical form is something that takes shape in the mind.
The other is, phonetic form.
This is basically the sentences we speak.
The concept required to form sentences exists in my brain even if I don't talk.
If I don't utter those sentences when I am talking to you, it does not mean that it has not formed in my mind.
Or, it does not mean it formed just now.
The logical form always exists.
It may or may not externalize.
Externalization is only an incidental act.
We must admit that the linguistic process is continuously happening within us.
Noam Chomsky calls it i-language and e-language.
We generally analyze e-language, or external language.
I am not saying that external language is meaningless.
I am saying external language will not fully help in understanding the language capability.
So, our main focus of research should be to investigate i-language characteristics.
Many great thinkers' thoughts are behind this Chomsky's thought.
He took Poverty of Stimuli from Plato.
He talks about the questions raised by Plato.
The question raised by Plato was
Human beings have limited external resources.
But how did he gain so much knowledge?
He concluded that it humans have past life
and they reconstruct these based on the memories of that life.
That was fine for his period.
But in 20th century, we need to find an answer differently.
Galileo and Darwin also raised this question.
They might have faltered in the way they formed these questions.
At that time, the thoughts were so limited
that they could not frame the right question.
But now that is not the case.
We are able to form the question correctly.
And, hence we are able to find the right answer as well.
Noam Chomsky continued the series of thoughts raised by his predecessors.
I believe he has given us 20th century answers to their questions.
So, his thoughts must reach Kannada audience.
Even today, we only talk about language usage and its formation.
It is not that language does not have formation or usage.
But these two will not help in explaining this inherent ability in humans.
Our education system is based on the belief that we can learn and teach language and its usage.
We say that we teach Kannada in schools.
But the child already knows Kannada completely.
There is nothing to teach. Only its usage can be taught.
You cannot teach the formation.
You cannot teach that ability.
But our current education system is based on behaviorial science.
So, these half-truths must go.
I wrote this because I wanted our Kannada audience to understand the different thoughts about language.
Since I am following Chomsky's thoughts for the last 50 years,
I have tried to explain my understanding of Chomsky.
There might be limitations to my comprehension.
But I don't think they will be wrong.
So, I have attempted to explain Chomsky in Kannada.
