ABSTRACT
Most linguists insist that the nature of language may be accurately characterized as a set of rules that, in the ideal, constitute an algorithm for describing any sentence of a language. In order to reach decisions on most of the significant issues in linguistic analysis and in the practical use of language, one must rely on one’s own knowledge of the world. The frontal lobe is indispensable for motor coordination in speech, and the temporoparietal lobes are indispensable for receptive and cognitive aspects of language processing. The syntactic relationship implied by designating a word as a verb or as a noun has in natural languages acquired an, alas, vague semantic significance. When a child develops language abilities, he or she develops a capacity to relate words to one another after a pattern; the various types of relationships, each roughly corresponding to a computation-like process, become gradually more and more differentiated.
