Language acquisition is gradually separating messy signals into labeled concepts
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-04
ctjlewis expands on his view of language acquisition and intelligence development: these processes involve gradually learning to separate messy, barely distinguishable signals and package them into distinct concepts, eventually labeling them with language. Speech starts as indistinct noise until human voices become identifiable and words like mama and dada emerge.
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