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Originally Posted by BobK  No, I honestly didn't mean you AV. It's just that when I was a student I had more time for academic arguments (I even read Aspects... - that's how conscientious I was  )
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I think Chomsky was very clever. I'm not so sure that his theories were clever, but he cleverly proposed things that can't really be disproven. Of course, they can't be proved either. One of his initial premises (one which I've never accepted) is that brain of children is not developed enough to produce unique language. First of all, I think that we know so little about how the brain works, that this premise is absurd on its face. There seem to be some cracks developing in some of Chomsky's foundation premises. Some say they are for the "birds".
ScienceDaily: The Birds And The B's: Challenging Chomsky, Starlings Learn 'Human-only' Syntax Patterns