Be sure to pick at least 720p for best sound quality. Noam begins speaking at 6:57 in.
On March 15, 2005, Noam Chomsky spoke at MIT in a talk entitled: The Idea of Universality in Linguistics and Human Rights. Joining him in the presentation was Elizabeth Spelke. After both speak, they take questions from the audience.
An unusual talk, as it combined both his linguistic and political work.
Alas, the video source was a mere 15 frames a second or so – this seems to be the best surviving copy.
The sound was quite a mess. I stripped off most of the noise using digital noise reduction, getting it to better than 55 decibels dynamic range. As is usual, I went over the sound second by second, reducing or eliminating as many audio flubs as possible (clicks, pops, booms, crashes, coughs, etc.). A very long, tedious process – about 12 hours or so, as there were problems every few seconds. Safe for headphone users now.
Earlier, I upload an audio-only version of this even with inferior sound quality, now deleted.
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Linguistics, Chomsky, 2005, Willard Van Orman Quine, David Hume, Sanford Levinson, Carl Schmidt, Torture, El Salvador, Education, Nuclear Weapons Control, Iran, Nicaragua, John Bolton, Jeane Kirkpatrick, United Nations,
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