A Review of the Relationship between Reincarnation and Chomsky s LAD

Various investigations have been done on both reincarnation and language acquisition during last decades all of which studied the significance of the related factors of some rather than the other independently. Some of those studies focus on the history or literature review of reincarnation while the others on the importance of the existence of Language Acquisition Device( LAD) through religious as well as linguistic perspectives. In this paper the relation between these challenging issues are considered. Religions like Islam, Hindu, etc. are all share believing in presence of spirit as an integrated part of human beings from birth time until physical death. As an instance, Hinduism believes that every living being is an eternally existing spirit (the soul or the self). After physical death, the soul passes from one body to another in accordance with the laws of Karma and reincarnation. Reincarnation, literally to be made flesh again , as a doctrine or mystical belief, holds the notion that some essential part of a living being (or in some variations, only human beings) can survive death in some form, with its integrity partly or wholly retained, to be reborn in a new body. This part is often referred to as the Spirit or Soul, the Higher or True Self , Divine Spark , I or the Ego (not to be confused with the ego as defined by psychology). On the other side Chomsky s LAD referring to a Language Acquisition Device shared among all human beings and the process of language acquisition, brings the idea to the mind that it might be a significant relationship between these two categories. The present student’s aim is to review the phenomenon of reincarnation and its relation with theory of Chomsky offering the existence of LAD.

Keywords:

Reincarnation , Language Acquisition Device