Language Myths: Heard in the Wild Bingo

This bingo card has a free space and 24 words: Some of the world’s languages are grammatically more complex than others, Adults’ corrections are necessary for children to acquire grammar, Sign languages cannot express abstract or highly technical ideas, Some languages have no grammar/syntax, Linguistic abilities steadily increase as a child grows older, Sign languages are visual representations of the surrounding spoken language, Every expression can be translated word-for-word into another language, Parents and other caregivers teach young children their language, Each country naturally corresponds to a single language, Cultures with greater technological sophistication tend to have grammatically richer languages., Some languages are more logical than others, Creoles are simplified or “broken” versions of other languages, A native speaker of a language is naturally able to explain the rules of its own language, Texting and social media are destroying grammar, Languages become less grammatical as they change, Double negatives are inherently illogical (I didn’t see nobody), Societies without writing do not possess fully developed languages, Some languages take longer than others for children to learn, Children and AI language models receive the same kind of linguistic input; models simply receive more of it, Formal, careful speech is grammatically more sophisticated than casual, everyday speech, Increasing the amount of data necessarily makes an AI system more human-like, AI produces human-like sentences, so it must possess human-like grammatical representations, AI can correctly define and use words, so it necessarily understands words as humans do and Children cannot produce sentences they have never previously heard.

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